-Cookbook
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-This cookbook makes your favorite breakfast sandwich.
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-3. Write your change
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+# web cookbook
+
+This cookbook installs and configures the web frontend machines that power
+[www.openstreetmap.org](http://www.openstreetmap.org). There are several recipes
+
+* `web::backend` - sets up the backend servers, used for processing longer-running requests
+* `web::base` - sets up common storage configuration between all the machines
+* `web::cgimap` - builds and configures [cgimap](https://github.com/openstreetmap/cgimap)
+* `web::cleanup` - configures a cleanup script to be run daily
+* `web::frontend` - sets up the frontend servers, that handle all inbound requests
+* `web::gpx` - sets up the GPX importer
+* `web::rails` - installs and configures the [openstreetmap-website](https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website) rails app
+* `web::statistics` - sets up the scripts for generating the [statistics page](http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html) for OSM contributions
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