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* https://your.org[Your.org] * https://your.org[Your.org]
and other link:../../donations/donors[contributors] to the FreeBSD project. and other link:../../donations/donors[contributors] to the FreeBSD project.
A list of general-access machines in the FreeBSD.org domain is available at the link:../machines[The FreeBSD.org Network] page. A list of general-access machines in the FreeBSD.org domain is available at the link:../machines[The FreeBSD.org Network] page.
== The Software == The Software
These pages are served up by the fast and flexible http://www.nginx.org/[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. These pages are served up by the fast and flexible http://www.nginx.org/[NGINX webserver] and https://varnish-cache.org/[Varnish HTTP Cache].
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 Pages
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image:../../gifs/lynx.gif[Lynx Friendly logo] image:../../gifs/lynx.gif[Lynx Friendly logo]
The original web pages were put together by John Fieber https://people.FreeBSD.org/~jfieber/[<jfieber@FreeBSD.org>] with input from the FreeBSD community and *you*. http://wolfram.schneider.org[<wosch@FreeBSD.org>] 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. The original web pages were put together by John Fieber https://people.FreeBSD.org/~jfieber/[<jfieber@FreeBSD.org>] with input from the FreeBSD community and *you*. http://wolfram.schneider.org[<wosch@FreeBSD.org>] 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 link:../../docproj/[FreeBSD Documentation Project] See also the link:../../docproj/[FreeBSD Documentation Project]
== Page Design == Page Design
The current website design was done by Emily Boyd as part of the https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com[Google Summer of Code] program in 2005. The current website design was done by Emily Boyd as part of the https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com[Google Summer of Code] program in 2005.
The original page design was done by Megan McCormack. The original page design was done by Megan McCormack.
== link:{fdp-primer}#the-website-build[Building and updating the FreeBSD Web Pages]
This document describes how to build and update the FreeBSD Web pages from the Git repository by hand.
== Update of the FreeBSD Web Pages == Update of the FreeBSD Web Pages
The FreeBSD Web Pages on `www.FreeBSD.org` are currently rebuilt according to the following schedule: The FreeBSD Web Pages on `www.FreeBSD.org` are currently rebuilt according to the following schedule:
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|Build Time (UTC) |Build type |Build Time (UTC) |Build type
|Every 10 minutes |English www only, if no other build is running |Every 10 minutes |If there is a change in the https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/log/[doc repository]
|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 The document link:{fdp-primer}doc-build/[FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors] describes how to build the FreeBSD documentation from the Git repository.
It is possible to link:../mirror[mirror] the FreeBSD web pages on www.FreeBSD.org.
link:..[FreeBSD Internal Home] link:..[FreeBSD Internal Home]