1 [[meta title="Mirroring the web site"]]
3 In keeping with the philosophy of distributed development, our web site is
4 stored in our git repositories and converted into html by
5 [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info/).
7 We're mirrored on several servers. Rather than using ikiwiki's [pinger/pingee
8 approach to distribution](http://ikiwiki.info/tips/distributed_wikis/), we've
9 opted for a method that uses ssh.
11 The steps for creating a new mirror are:
13 * Add etch-backports to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
14 deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free
15 * Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/preferences file:
17 Pin: release a=etch-backports
21 Package: libcgi-formbuilder-perl
22 Pin: release a=etch-backports
26 Pin: release a=etch-backports
28 * Install git-core and ikiwiki
29 aptitude update; aptitutde install git-core ikiwiki
30 * Create a new user. Change the new users shell to git-shell:
31 adduser -s /usr/bin/git-shell <username>
32 * Add webmaster@george's public key to this user's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file
33 * Add web site configuration that the user has write access to. If you are using Apache, include the following rewrite:
35 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(YOURHOSTNAME|web)\.monkeysphere\.info$ [NC]
36 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
37 RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://web.monkeysphere.info/$1 [L,R]
38 * Upload and edit ikiwiki.setup.sample from the docs directory
39 * As the new user, create two new git repos
40 mkdir monkeysphere.git; cd monkeysphere.git; git init --bare; cd ../
41 git clone monkeysphere.git # this will create a second git repo called monkeysphere
42 * Change the mode of monkeysphere.git/hooks/post-receive to 755
43 chmod 755 monkesphere.git/hooks/post-receive
44 * Edit the file so that it executes the post-receive hook ikiwiki generates (as you specified in the ikiwiki.setup file)
46 The steps to be taken on the mirror site should now be complete. The following steps should be taken by a Monkeysphere admin user:
48 * Add a new dns record for SERVERNAME.monkeysphere.info.
49 * Test the ssh connection by logging in as webmaster@george.riseup.net
50 * Add the new server as a remote on webmaster@george.riseup.net:monkeysphere.git
52 git add remote SERVERNAME USER@SERVERNAME.monkeysphere.info:/path/to/repo