This solution is to create a local HTML file from the dynamic www.ewea.org/navigation-file generated by Typo3, that can be rsync’d to other servers so that they may include it in their templates as local files, speeding up the page creation process (and bypassing a huge latency issue we had with the EWEA 2015 programme pages).

#!/bin/sh
curl -L -o /var/www/html/sites/www.ewea.org/navigation http://www.ewea.org/navigation-file
rsync -avze "ssh -p 10022 -i /root/.ssh/main_prv_key" /var/www/html/sites/www.ewea.org/navigation [email protected]:/var/www/html/
rsync -avze "ssh -p 10022 -i /root/.ssh/main_prv_key" /var/www/html/sites/www.ewea.org/navigation [email protected]:/var/www/html/
rsync -avze "ssh -p 10022 -i /root/.ssh/main_prv_key" /var/www/html/sites/www.ewea.org/navigation [email protected]:/var/www/html/

This is scheduled to run daily at midnight via cron

On the receiving server, the following code is then used to display the navigation on the website.

<div id="navigation">
	<?php // INCLUDE EWEA MENU
	include("/var/www/html/navigation");
	?>
</div><!-- end #navigation -->