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4 <title>Building an exim website mirror</title>
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8 <h1>Mirroring the Exim web site</h1>
10 <h2>Mirroring the content</h2>
12 <p>All of the exim web site content is available through rsync,
13 and this is the recommended means for mirroring the web site
14 content. A document describing <a
15 href="http://www.sunsite.auc.dk/SunSITE/rsync/rsync-mirroring.html">rsync
16 mirroring</a> has been produced by <a
17 href="http://www.sunsite.auc.dk/">Sunsite Denmark</a>, and this
18 gives good general information on rsync in general, where to
19 obtain the software, as well as rsync for mirroring.</p>
21 <p>The rsync URL is <a href="rsync://ftp.exim.org/www">
22 rsync://ftp.exim.org/www </a></p>
24 <p>However the more normal means to quote the rsync path is
25 <tt>ftp.exim.org::www</tt></p>
27 <p>The rsync path for the ftp area is
28 <tt>ftp.exim.org::ftp</tt></p>
30 <h2>Configuring your httpd</h2>
32 <p>Your httpd obviously needs to see the mirrored content. There
33 are also some other tweaks - Apache aliases - which are needed.
34 The paths that need aliasing are currently only the <tt>/ftp></tt>
35 path which either needs pointing to your ftp mirror, or
36 redirecting to a reasonable mirror of the exim ftp site.</p>
38 <p>If and when the mailing list archives are put on line, these
39 may also need handling in a special way.</p>
41 <h2>Branding your site</h2>
43 <p>In some small recognition of the ISPs and other organisations
44 who donate the web site space, bandwidth and management, the web
45 site has a brandable component - specifically the bottom left
46 hand pane of the main window points to the
47 <tt>branding/branding.html</tt> file. By aliasing this path you
48 can tailor this to put a sponsors logo in place.</p>
50 <h2>Tell people about it</h2>
52 <p>Assuming this is a public mirror then contact me about it and I
53 will add a link from the main site. I can also get a
54 <tt>www.<i>country</i>.exim.org</tt> link added to the DNS for
55 you. You may also wish to send one message to the mailing list
59 <address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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