-[[meta title="Mirroring the web site"]]
+[[meta title="Mirroring the Monkeysphere web site"]]
-In keeping with the philosophy of distributed development, our web site is
+# Mirroring the Monkeysphere web site #
+
+In keeping with the distributed philosophy of distributed development, our web site is
stored in our git repositories and converted into html by
[ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info/).
We're mirrored on several servers. Rather than using ikiwiki's [pinger/pingee
approach to distribution](http://ikiwiki.info/tips/distributed_wikis/), we've
-opted for a method that uses ssh.
-
-The steps for creating a new mirror are:
-
-## Steps to take on the mirror server ##
-
-Add etch-backports to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
-
- deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free
-
-Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/preferences file:
-
- Package: ikiwiki
- Pin: release a=etch-backports
- Pin-Priority: 999
-
- # needed by ikiwiki
- Package: libcgi-formbuilder-perl
- Pin: release a=etch-backports
- Pin-Priority: 999
-
- Package: git-core
- Pin: release a=etch-backports
- Pin-Priority: 999
+opted for a simpler rsync of the ikiwiki-produced html files.
-Install git-core and ikiwiki
+## Initial steps to take on the mirror server ##
- aptitude update; aptitutde install git-core ikiwiki
+Create a new user.
-Create a new user. Change the new users shell to git-shell:
-
- adduser -s /usr/bin/git-shell <username>
-
-Add webmaster@george's public key to this user's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file
-
-Add web site configuration that the user has write access to. If you are using Apache, include the following rewrite:
+Add web site configuration that the user has write access to. If you are
+using Apache, include the following rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(YOURHOSTNAME|web)\.monkeysphere\.info$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://web.monkeysphere.info/$1 [L,R]
-Upload and edit ikiwiki.setup.sample from the docs directory
-
-As the new user, create two new git repos
+Add `webmaster@george`'s public key to this user's
+`~/.ssh/authorized_keys` file, restricting that user to rsync (modify
+path to web directory as needed):
- mkdir monkeysphere.git; cd monkeysphere.git; git init --bare; cd ../
- git clone monkeysphere.git # this will create a second git repo called monkeysphere
-
-Change the mode of monkeysphere.git/hooks/post-receive to 755
-
- chmod 755 monkesphere.git/hooks/post-receive
-
-Edit the file so that it executes the post-receive hook ikiwiki generates (as
-you specified in the ikiwiki.setup file)
+ command="/usr/bin/rsync --server -vlogDtprz --delete . web/",no-pty,no-agent-forwarding,no-port-forwarding ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEA0SCD6tAh7g1yyuelIm5zyh5OFX89NNbpNzyp+BxXNxMc/C1BS9SN5KlNDT30WdDbw3X0St0dBBC69TZWYbSUn4+/6BNmYpLH2orhedBv4w2jBLmtVEfnMWa3a11CnIagMEkEz7rBIWpl76WOqzoueQbAAa/7GziVmv+2qdjcDFxHluO+VL/+gEw8BqZc587oiDYkIw3oBnOLaxUWDtaMFKiL8sgdBmPxzc8PgHxL5ezVDJExw5krR4FK7hG7KpBOlSwKQPFy2pPhHSb1ZuFJmp2kr2wfJ0RO7By5s/GbrkJbnGoiJ5W0fUC9YoI82U3svC5saowvoSo19yToJW4QUw== webmaster@george
## Admin steps to take to enable the configuration ##
Add a new dns record for SERVERNAME.monkeysphere.info.
-Test the ssh connection by logging in as webmaster@george.riseup.net
-
-Add the new server as a remote on webmaster@george.riseup.net:monkeysphere.git
+If the mirror server is not participating in the monkeysphere, add the
+server to webmaster's known host file.
- cd ~/monkeysphere.git
- git add remote SERVERNAME USER@SERVERNAME.monkeysphere.info:/path/to/repo
+Add the new server to `webmaster@george:~/mirrors` in the format:
-Test:
+ username@server:directory
- git push SERVERNAME
+Test by manually running the git post-receive hook as
+`webmaster@george`:
+ ~/monkeysphere.git/hooks/post-receive
-
+Add a new `A` record into the `web.monkeysphere.info` round robin.
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