• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• OPTIONS
• INSTALLATION
• ENVIRONMENT
• SEE ALSO
• AUTHOR
• PREREQUISITES
• COREQUISITES

NAME

webmake - a simple web site management system, allowing an entire site to be created from a set of text and markup files and one WebMake file.

SYNOPSIS

  webmake [option ...]

  webmake [option ...] [-f webmakefile]

  webmake [option ...] [-R dir_or_file]

DESCRIPTION

WebMake is a simple web site management system, allowing an entire site to be created from a set of text and markup files and one WebMake file.

It requires no dynamic scripting capabilities on the server; WebMake sites can be deployed to a plain old FTP site without any problems.

It allows the separation of responsibilities between the content editors, the HTML page designers, and the site architect; only the site architect needs to edit the WebMake file itself, or know perl or WebMake code.

A multi-level website can be generated entirely from 1 or more WebMake files containing content, links to content files, perl code (if needed), and output instructions. Since the file-to-page mapping no longer applies, and since elements of pages can be loaded from different files, this means that standard file access permissions can be used to restrict editing by role.

Text can be edited as standard HTML, converted from plain text (using the included Text::EtText module), or converted from any other format by adding a conversion method to the WebMake::FormatConvert module.

Since URLs can be referred to symbolically, pages can be moved around and URLs changed by changing just one line. All references to that URL will then change automatically.

Content items and output URLs can be generated, altered, or read in dynamically using perl code. Perl code can even be used to generate other perl code to generate content/output URLs/etc., recursively.

OPTIONS

-f

The WebMake file to read and generate output from. If this option is not supplied, the default behaviour is to search the current directory and its parents for a file ending in .wmk.

-F

Force output. Normally if a file is already up to date, it is not modified. This will force the file to be re-made.

-r

Run more quickly, but take more risks. Normally, dynamic content, such as Perl sections, sitemaps, or navigation links, are always considered to be in need of rebuilding, as mapping their dependencies is often very difficult or impossible. This switch forces them to be ignored for dependency-tracking purposes, and so an output file that depends on them will not be rebuilt unless a normal content item on that page changes.

-b basehref

Rewrite links to be absolute URLs based at this URL. By default, links are specified as relative wherever possible.

-d basedir

Generate output, and look for support files (images etc.), relative to this directory.

-p

Paranoid mode; do not allow perl code evaluation or accesses to directories above the WebMake file.

-D

Debug mode; more output.

-L

Debug level; how much debug output to produce. 0 means no debug output, 3 means lots.

-C dir

Change to this directory before reading files or generating output.

-R dir_or_file

If dir_or_file is a directory, change to that directory, or if it is a file, change to that file's parent directory, before starting.

-s

List source files that would be used to generate this site, one per line.

-o

List output files that would be generated to build this site, one per line. When you're using CVS to replicate a site, this comes in handy, as you know you can safely overwrite changes in these files when doing a cvs update.

INSTALLATION

The webmake command is part of the HTML::WebMake Perl module. Install this as a normal Perl module, using perl -MCPAN -e shell, or by hand.

ENVIRONMENT

No environment variables, aside from those used by perl, are required to be set.

SEE ALSO

webmake

ettext2html

ethtml2text

HTML::WebMake

Text::EtText

AUTHOR

Justin Mason <jm /at/ jmason.org>

PREREQUISITES

HTML::Entities

File::Spec

File::Path

File::Basename

Carp

Cwd

COREQUISITES

Image::Size is required to support the IMGSIZE tag. If this tag is not used, or if the module is not available, webmake can still operate acceptably.