[publican-list] Web publishing with Publican 4

Mon Mar 24 22:56:03 UTC 2014

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On 03/25/2014 01:53 AM, Jared Smith wrote:
> First of all, let my say "kudos!" for the Publican 4 release.  It's
> been really solid for me, and I'm very happy to be using it.
> 
> That being said, I'm having some serious problems with web
> publishing with Publican 4, and I'm not alone.  This past weekend,
> the Fedora Documentation Team and I tried to stand up a new server
> to use Publican for publishing the Fedoras documentation on the
> web, and even with all the smart people around the tables (both in
> Raleigh and in Brno, joined by a video link), none of us were able
> to get anywhere close to a working system.  The instructions in the
> users guide (either doing manual installation or installing via
> RPMs) don't seem to work, and result in a system with missing
> javascript files and a number of other issues.
> 
> Is there someone that can walk me through setting things up, step
> by step, on a RHEL 6 machine?  If so, I'd be happy to write up
> documentation and submit patches for the users guide.

Rudi is the man.

IIRC the two secrets are:

1: install the welcome page
2: install a book
3: update_site

the three secrets are ...

Cheers, Jeff.