Index: www/build.wiki ================================================================== --- www/build.wiki +++ www/build.wiki @@ -16,13 +16,13 @@
Fossil is self-hosting, so you can obtain a ZIP archive containing a snapshot of the latest version directly from fossil's own fossil repository. Follow these steps:
Pointer your webbrowser at - -http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/login.
Pointer your web browser at + +http://www.fossil-scm.org/. Click on the "Login" menu button.
Log in as anonymous. The password is shown on screen. The reason for requiring this login is to prevent spiders from walking the entire website, downloading ZIP archives of every historical version, and thereby soaking up all our bandwidth.
- fossil clone http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil myclone.fossil + fossil clone http://www.fossil-scm.org/ myclone.fossil
The new local copy of the respository is stored in a single file, which in the example above is named "myclone.fossil". You can name your repositories anything you want. The ".fossil" suffix @@ -59,18 +59,18 @@
When you create a new repository, either by cloning an existing project or create a new project of your own, you usually want to do some - local configuration. This is accomplished using a webbrowser. First - start a fossil webserver like this:
+ local configuration. This is easily accomplished using the webserver + that is built into fossil. Start the fossil webserver like this:fossil ui repository-filename-This creates a mini-webserver listening on port 8080. You can +
This creates starts webserver listening on port 8080. You can specify a different port using the -port option on the command-line. After the server is running, fossil will then attempt to launch your web browser and make it point to this web server. If your system has an unusual configuration, fossil might not be able to figure out how to start your web browser. In that case, start the web browser