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+use IkiWiki::Setup::Standard {
+ wikiname => "Monkeysphere",
+ adminemail => 'webmaster@monkeysphere.info',
+
+ srcdir => "/path/to/cloned/monkeysphere/repo/website",
+ destdir => "/path/to/web/dir",
+
+ url => "http://monkeysphere.info",
+
+ rcs => "git",
+
+ wrappers => [
+ {
+ wrapper => "/path/to/post-receive/hook",
+ wrappermode => "0755",
+ }
+ ],
+
+ rss => 1,
+ atom => 1,
+ verbose => 0,
+ syslog => 0,
+
+ add_plugins => [qw{goodstuff favicon toc sidebar}],
+
+
+ tagbase => "tags",
+
+}
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+[[meta title="Mirroring the web site"]]
+
+In keeping with the 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:
+
+ * 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
+ * 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:
+ 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
+ * 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)
+
+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.
+ * 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
+ cd ~/monkeysphere.git
+ git add remote SERVERNAME USER@SERVERNAME.monkeysphere.info:/path/to/repo
+ * Test:
+ git pusch SERVERNAME
+
+
+