Hi Lóránt,
> However, requiring each project to do this is rather error prone, so I'd
> like to define a pattern in the company parent POM, and have all
projects
> automatically derive their location from there.
>
> This doesn't work. If I set a location in our top-level POM to, say,
> "scp://maven-sites/var/www/", sites will be published to folders under
that
> location based on their artifactId. This means that I get URLs like
this:
>
> http://maven-sites.local/hello-parent/
> http://maven-sites.local/hello-parent/hello-core/
>
> I have several problems with this:
>
> - The URLs I get are not very nice.
> - The company POM's site gets published to the root location (
> http://maven-sites.local/), which causes all kinds of troubles.
> - If I have two projects with different groupIds, but with the same
> artifactId, their sites will collide.
>
> Is there an easy way to solve this, or should all projects define their
own
> site locations?
I'm doing something similar by using the following properties /
definitions in my parent (company) pom:
<properties>
<!-- URL for deployable web sites: -->
<distribution.repository.website>scp://myserver/var/apache2/2.2/htdocs/docs</distribution.repository.website>
<!-- standard base URL for deployed web sites: -->
<base.site.url>http://myserver/docs</base.site.url>
</properties>
<url>${base.site.url}/${project.groupId}/${project.artifactId}/${project.version}</url>
<distributionManagement>
...
<site>
<id>releases-site</id>
<name>Published web sites</name>
<url>${distribution.repository.website}/${project.groupId}/${project.artifactId}/${project.version}</url>
</site>
</distributionManagement>
This lets all projects that use my parent pom deploy their websites under
the "/docs" subdirectory under my Apache's document root directory
"/var/apache2/2.2/htdocs/".
Note:
The group Id isn't "splitted" in several subdirectories, i.e. you'll end
up having "com.example/blah/1.0-SNAPSHOT" as path, not
"com/example/blah/1.0-SNAPSHOT".
Using the following default site.xml in my projects lets "mvn site-deploy"
resolve parent relationship links by using the links/urls given in the
parent pom:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/DECORATION/1.0.0";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/DECORATION/1.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/decoration-1.0.0.xsd";>
<publishDate format="dd.MM.yyyy" position="right" />
<version position="right" />
<poweredBy>
<logo name="Maven" href="http://maven.apache.org/";
img="
http://maven.apache.org/images/logos/maven-feather.png"; />
</poweredBy>
<body>
<menu inherit="true" />
<menu ref="parent" />
<menu ref="reports" />
<menu ref="modules" />
</body>
</project>
HTH
Thorsten
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