About the FreeBSD WWW Server
The Machine
Naturally, all systems in the FreeBSD.org cluster run FreeBSD. The hardware and network connection have been generously provided by Bytemark Hosting, Internet Systems Consortium, National Chiao Tung University, New York Internet, RootBSD, Yandex, Yahoo!, and other contributors to the FreeBSD project.
A list of general-access machines in the FreeBSD.org domain is available at the The FreeBSD.org Network page.
The Software
These pages are served up by the fast and flexible nginx webserver. In addition, there are a few locally crafted CGI scripts. Indexing of the mailing list archive are provided by freewais-sf, a derivative of the CNIDR freewais.
The Pages
The original web pages were put together by John Fieber <[email protected]> with input from the FreeBSD community and you. <[email protected]> was our first webmaster but this responsibility is now shared by a larger team of web and documentation contributors. The FreeBSD pages are valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and should degrade gracefully on any browser.
See also the FreeBSD Documentation Project
Page Design
The current website design was done by Emily Boyd as part of the Google Summer of Code program in 2005.
The original page design was done by Megan McCormack.
Building and updating the FreeBSD Web Pages
This document describes how to build and update the FreeBSD Web pages from the Subversion repository by hand.
Update of the FreeBSD Web Pages
The FreeBSD Web Pages on www.FreeBSD.org are currently rebuilt according to the following schedule:
| Build Time (UTC) | Build type |
|---|---|
| Every 10 minutes | English www only, if no other build is running |
| Every Sunday at 00:00 | Full build with a new tree checkout |
| Every 1 hour | English only |
| Every 3 hours | Full build |
Mirroring the FreeBSD Web Pages
It is possible to mirror the FreeBSD web pages on www.FreeBSD.org.