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+# The charmplusplus.org website
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+See also https://wiki.illinois.edu/wiki/display/ppl/Deploy+the+charmplusplus+website.
+
+This is for deploying the charmplusplus website (http://charmplusplus.org/) which is hosted on the machine "charm". 
+
+
+##  Building the website
+Steps to obtain a local copy of the website for updating:
+
+- Check out the source code:
+
+      $ git clone https://github.com/UIUC-PPL/charmplusplus.org
+  
+- Install the required gems:
+
+      $ gem install nanoc adsf
+
+- Compile the website (anytime you make changes): 
+
+      $ cd charmweb
+      $ var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/nanoc compile
+    
+- Start a local server (port will print to screeen):
+
+      $ /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/nanoc view
+    
+From here you can access the website by accessing http://localhost:PORT/.
+
+## Editing the content
+
+- Change directory to `content`
+- Edit the html
+- Recompile the website to generate the new set of static pages
+
+## Deploy
+
+Copy the contents of the "output" folder to charm.cs.illinois.edu:/web/charmweb.