---- The Apache Velocity Project ---- dev@velocity.apache.org The Apache Velocity Site ======================== Introduction ------------ The Apache Velocity Site is what you get when you visit http://velocity.apache.org/ (our homepage). It is the envelope site for all Apache Velocity sub projects. In short: This svn repository is only interesting for you if you a) want to re-create the Apache Velocity site on your local computer or intranet. b) are an Apache Velocity committer and want to update the site. Building the Site ----------------- Apache Velocity uses Apache Maven 2 to build the site. It requires at least Maven 2.0.5 to build, Maven 2.0.6 is recommended. The site consists of multiple modules: The Site itself and some helpers that must be installed in your local Maven repository. These extensions are currently not present in the remote Maven repositories, so if you do not install them, the site build itself will fail. Checking the Site module out of the Velocity Source Code Repository =================================================================== The site is available from http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/velocity/site/ (The Apache Velocity Site repository). You need a Subversion client installed to download the site source code onto your computer. Create the Apache Velocity Site Helper modules ---------------------------------------------- To build the site, you need the helper modules installed locally. The helper modules have been organized as a Maven reactor build. You can install them by running "mvn" from the "tools" sub-directory. You need to install these only once unless the dependencies of the site have changed which should only happen very rarely. Create the Apache Velocity Site ------------------------------- To build the site, enter the "site" directory and run "mvn" (the default goal here is "site-post" which generates the site and also installs a few extra files (e.g. the download.cgi script for automatic mirror selection). If you want to re-create the site locally, you can now enter "mvn site:run" and point a web browser at "localhost:8080". Deploy the Apache Velocity Site ------------------------------- What you see is (almost) what you get. While the site builds using stock Apache Maven 2.0.6 and also all plugins can be built and used, the full functionality of what you see depends of a few patches to Maven Doxia and the site and changes plugins. It is therefore recommended that you do not deploy the site from your local computer but log onto velocity.zones.apache.org (as a committer, you can get an account here by just asking on the PMC list) and run the following commands: newgrp velocity (this will open a new shell) /export/home/velocity/bin/build_velocity_site.sh This will check out the latest version of the site into a staging directory, build it and deploy it to velocity.apache.org. You must have a local Maven settings file in your home directory, though (typically in ~/.m2/settings.xml): [...] velocity.apache.org {your apache user id} [...] The patches required to Doxia and the plugins can be reviewed by running the following commands on velocity.zones.apache.org ( cd /export/home/velocity/scratch/maven-2/doxia/doxia ; svn diff ) ( cd /export/home/velocity/scratch/maven-2/doxia/doxia-sitetools ; svn diff ) ( cd /export/home/velocity/scratch/maven-2/plugins ; svn diff ) The various patches are open at the Maven bug tracker as MNG-2874, MCHANGES-67, MCHANGES-66, DOXIA-91, DOXIA-78. Troubleshooting --------------- When building the site, you might get one or more error messages like this: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] The skin does not exist: Unable to download the artifact from any repository Try downloading the file manually from the project website. Then, install it using the command: mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.apache.velocity -DartifactId=velocity-site-skin \ -Dversion=1.0.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file org.apache.velocity:velocity-site-skin:jar:1.0.0 or Missing: ---------- 1) org.apache.velocity:doxia-velocity-renderer:jar:0.0.1 Try downloading the file manually from the project website. Then, install it using the command: mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.apache.velocity -DartifactId=doxia-velocity-renderer \ -Dversion=0.0.1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file Path to dependency: 1) org.apache.velocity:velocity-site:jar:1.0.0 2) org.apache.velocity:doxia-velocity-renderer:jar:0.0.1 Both messages mean that you neglected to install the helper modules. Please go to the directory where you found this README and run "mvn". Afterwards the site should build fine. An error message like this: [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Internal error in the plugin manager executing goal 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:2.0-SNAPSHOT:run': Unable to find the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:2.0-SNAPSHOT:run' in the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin' means that you are probably using Apache Maven 2.0.4 and either forgot to add the workaround described above when trying to build the site or forgot to remove the extensions as described above when trying to execute site:run or site:deploy. Questions and contact --------------------- If you have questions about the Apache Velocity Site building process, please ask the Velocity developers on the Velocity Developers mailing list at .