[Docutils-users] Re: Serving rst-documents via Apache?

[Felix W. <Fel...@gm...>]

William Dode wrote:

> Johan Holmberg writes:
>
>> I'm look for a "low tech" way of serving reSTructuredText-documents
>> via an Apache web-server. I would like to avoid having to run
>> the "html.py" script manually after editing a reStructuredText file.
>
> It's better to generate all the html files in one pass because :
> 1/ docutils is not very fast
> 2/ it can be syntax error in your rst source

ACK.

> If you still want to try, one possibility is to start a script when the
> page is not found, instead of the 404 errors.
> In the .htaccess you say 
> ErrorDocument 404 /script.py
>
> and in your script you generate the page and send it. Next time the page
> will be ready.

With this solution HTML pages don't get automatically updated when a TXT
file is modified.

I'd rather suggest mod_rewriting all URLs to a CGI script which
generates and caches the HTML files.

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