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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 23:20:14 +1100
From: David Crossley <crossley@apache.org>
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Subject: site-author and project.content-dir FOR-1048
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David Crossley wrote:
> 
> However, the "site-author" war does not work.
> 
> The reason is that it cannot find the project locationmap
> and even if it did there would be no content.
> 
> It seems that the packing up of the WAR file does not like
> the layout of our "site-author" space. In its forrest.properties
> we configure "project.content-dir=." and it seems that anything
> using that property does not get packed into the war file,
> e.g.
> project.xdocs-dir=${project.content-dir}/content/xdocs
> project.skinconf=${project.content-dir}/skinconf.xml
> and content/locationmap.xml
> ... none of those get packed into the war file and so
> are not available at runtime.
> 
> Moving that stuff into a sub-directory, and setting the
> property "project.content-dir" does fix the problem.

This is something that we missed putting on the roadmap:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1048
"project.content-dir is getting ignored if "." in forrest war"

-David