To publish from trunk/site-author/ Do once: # Create $FORREST_HOME/deploy.svn.settings file. These credentials # are needed by forrestbot so that it can do your 'svn add' # and 'svn commit' etc. to the forrest/site/ repository. # Set its file permissions so that only you can read it. # The deploy.svn.settings file looks like: # Make changes to sources, and then test, then commit. # Use the forrestbot to build and then deploy to svn.apache.org ... ]$ cd site-author ]$ forrest -f publish.xml build # ... verify files in build/forrest-docs ]$ forrest -f publish.xml deploy -Ddeploy.svn.commit-message="my commit message" Now the files are in SVN at forrest/site Periodically the real website files are automatically updated from there. You do not need to do anything else. For more information, see: http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/How_to_publish_docs.html http://forrest.apache.org/howto-forrestbot-svn.html ---------------------- Note: The first time that you deploy, it will need to do a long svn checkout first.