How to manage your website at SourceForge with CVS

Author: Nicolas E. Rabenau <nerab@gmx.at>

Setup a local directory structure like that:
```
	<project-name>-htdocs/
	|
	+- htdocs/
	+- <other stuff>
```
The htdocs folder is the interesting one, it will be shown as your site's root directory.

Check in <project-name>-htdocs into SourceForge's CVS:

	cd <project-name>-htdocs/
	export CVS_RSH=ssh
	cvs -d:ext:<developer-name>@cvs.<project-name>.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/<project-name> import <project-name>-htdocs <developer-name> start

You can verify that by looking at the CVS repository with viewcvs: Point your browser at

		http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/<project-name>/
There should be a folder named <project-name>-htdocs with the contents of your web site.

Login to SourceForge's shell server and switch to your projects web directory:
```
	ssh <developer-name>@<project-name>.sf.net
	cd /home/groups/&/&L/<project-name>
```
where & is the first character of <project-name> and &L are the first two characters of <project-name>.
Checkout the htdocs folder (which is a copy of your web site):
```
	cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.<project-name>.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/<project-name> co <project-name>-htdocs/htdocs
```
There will be a new folder named <project-name>-htdocs which contains the htdocs folder (the only interesting one). Move the contents of it to the htdocs folder:
```
	mv <project-name>-htdocs/* .
```
Now the htdocs folder contains the a version of your web site which is under CVS control.
Whenever you made changes to your web site, simply check it in to CVS and run
```
	cvs update
```
in the htdocs directory.

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