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.
+opted for a simpler rsync of the ikiwiki-produced html files.
-The steps for creating a new mirror are:
+## Initial steps to take on the mirror server ##
- * Add etch-backports to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
+Create a new user.
- 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
-
- * Install git-core and ikiwiki
-
- aptitude update; aptitutde install git-core ikiwiki
-
- * 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
-
- mkdir monkeysphere.git; cd monkeysphere.git; git init --bare; cd ../
- git clone monkeysphere.git # this will create a second git repo called monkeysphere
+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):
- * Change the mode of monkeysphere.git/hooks/post-receive to 755
+ 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
- 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)
+## Admin steps to take to enable the configuration ##
-The steps to be taken on the mirror site should now be complete. The
-following steps should be taken by a Monkeysphere admin user:
+Add a new dns record for SERVERNAME.monkeysphere.info.
- * Add a new dns record for SERVERNAME.monkeysphere.info.
+If the mirror server is not participating in the monkeysphere, add the
+server to webmaster's known host file.
- * Test the ssh connection by logging in as webmaster@george.riseup.net
+Add the new server to ~/mirrors file on george in the format:
- * Add the new server as a remote on
- webmaster@george.riseup.net:monkeysphere.git
+ username@server:directory
- cd ~/monkeysphere.git
- git add remote SERVERNAME USER@SERVERNAME.monkeysphere.info:/path/to/repo
+Test by manually running the git post-receive hook:
- * Test:
+ ~monkeysphere.git/hooks/post-receive
- git push SERVERNAME
-