Making Updates to the Boost Website Content

Any boost developer can update the Boost website content between releases.

You should first make the change in our CVS repository, so it doesn't get lost or overwritten by the next person that updates the page between releases.
You will upload the file(s) by scp'ing to the appropriate subdirectory of shell.sf.net:/home/groups/b/bo/boost/htdocs/. For example, to update the page you are reading, I would issue
```
scp updating_the_website.html david_abrahams@shell.sf.net:/home/groups/b/bo/boost/htdocs/more/
```
It is crucial to ensure that you set group write permission on every file you upload. If you don't do that, nobody else will be able to change it, which is particularly deadly at release time. If you are on Unix or Cygwin, you may be able to do that with a chmod command before uploading the file. The absolutely failsafe thing to do is to ssh into shell.sf.net and do the chmod there. The files also need to have general read permission, and any directories should have general execute permission and the "set user or group ID on execution" (s) bit should also be set. If you're not touching any directories, you can do it all with one command, e.g.
```
ssh david_abrahams@shell.sf.net "chmod a+r,g+rw /home/groups/b/bo/boost/htdocs/more/updating_the_website.html"
```
Revised 05 March, 2005

© Copyright David Abrahams 2005

Use, modification, and distribution are subject to the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)