• Introduction
• What's a Floss Manual website?
• Installation
• Installing Booktype
• Installing BookiPublisher
• Booktype
• Performance tuning
• Translation
• Known issues (and workarounds)
• Dev Needed
• Bookipublisher
• Managing Booki Publisher
• Known Issues and Solutions
• Development Needed
• System administration
• Apache server optimization

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What's a Floss Manual website?

FLOSS Manuals consists of a central organisation website - www.flossmanuals.org  - and several language sites hosted on *.flossmanuals.net. The three most active language sites are:

1. en.flossmanuals.net
2. fr.flossmanuals.net
3. fi.flossmanuals.net

Each of the language communities manage their own web services. The set up is more or less the same. Each language has a booktype (booki) installation for book production and then there is a 'frontpage' which is actually a separate code base known as 'bookpublisher'.

For example, the book production environment for english manuals hosted at 'booki.flossmanuals.net' is an entirely separate codebase from where the books are accessed by readers - en.flossmanuals.net

Booktype is written in python and now maintained by Sourcefabric. and Bookipublisher is maintained by FLOSS Manuals. It is  the responsibility of each language community to maintain their own installations of Booktype and Bookipublisher.