Re: is Roller good for conventional non-blog website?

Hi, no, Apache Roller is for blogs and only blogs.  Webpage authoring 
software is outside of its scope. However, when you say "conventional 
website", you're primarily saying static (hardcoded) HTML pages which 
can be placed in a specified location ( dependent on the HTTP Server or 
servlet container you're using) and retrieved directly from a browser.  
If you're using Tomcat, for example, and you place a sample html page in 
TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/roller/test.html you should be able to retrieve the 
HTML at http://localhost:8080/roller/test.html (that is, providing you 
have roller deployed there).  The user mailing list for whatever server 
you're using can provide more detailed help.

Glen

On 02/12/2013 07:59 PM, Richard O. Hammer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a new user.  I have installed Roller successfully and created my 
> first test weblog.  If you like you can see that test weblog here 
> <rtest.richard-o-hammer.org/r/>.
>
> I imagine that I will use Roller to host a few conventional web 
> sites.  By this I mean not a blog, but the typical website of an 
> organization.  Such a typical website has a home page (or portal) 
> which is the root of a tree of pages, pages which are mostly static.  
> Is Roller suited for such a website?
>
> I imagine that Roller must be suited for use on a conventional 
> website.  But I have read through the Roller User Guide and the 
> Template Guide.  These seem to be all about blogs, as opposed to 
> conventional websites.  So I am not sure.
>
> Later on I expect I will use Roller for a website more like a blog.  
> But my first priority is get my webmastering duties out of the 20th 
> century, to stop editing my HTML directly in a text editor.
>
> Thank you,
> Rich Hammer
> Raleigh, N.C.
> <http://richard-o-hammer.org/>