Here is how to mirror the PHP3 site.

First, you need to have a cvs client.  See http://www.cyclic.com, or grab one from your
local GNU mirror.  You will also need MySQL installed and working.  See http://www.tcx.se/

Second, create a directory off of your root directory.  Doesn't matter what the name is, as
long as it isn't "php3".  I call mine "cvs".  cd into this directory and issue the following

   cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/repository login
   Password: phpfi
   cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/repository co php3/web-stuff

now cd into php3 and type: cvs update CHANGES

Then cd back into your root directory and create a symbolic link:

  ln -s cvs/php3/web-stuff php3

Now, make sure your web server is set up to serve up .php3 files as PHP3 parsed files.
If it isn't, add the mime-type to your config.

Create a mysql database with: mysqladmin create php3

Make sure your "nobody" user has access to it.  Then cd into your php3 directory and type:

   mysql php3 <schema.mysql

In order for the "View Source" button to work, you need to add the php3-source
mime type and point it at files with the .phps extension.  Then create symbolic
links from index.php3 to index.phps, search.php3 to search.phps, etc. 
The shell script, "mklinks", will create these for you.

You should be all set.  Point your browser at www.yoursite.com/php3

You may want to set up a cron job that periodically does a 'cvs update -d' in 
your cvs/php3 directory.  This will ensure that your web site is up to date.

In order to get the Search button to work, you need to have the Glimpse binaries
installed.  They are available at ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/pub/glimpse
I haven't had much luck compiling from their sources, but the binary distribution
of Glimpse-4.0 seems to work fine.  Install these in /usr/local/bin, and run
the following command:

/usr/local/bin/glimpseindex -b -i -t -H /u/www/servers/lerdorf/php3 /u/www/servers/lerdorf/php3; chmod a+r /u/www/servers/lerdorf/php3/.gli*

Replace /u/www/servers/lerdorf with whatever the path is to your php3 directory.  Note that
the search script assumes all files are reachable with a URL of: /php3/filename.ext

In order for the patches to download when you click on them, add this line to your
srm.conf file:

  AddType application/octet-stream .fix 

(instructions for database synchronization will follow when we figure out how
to do it)