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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:
+
+## 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
+
+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)
+
+## 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
+
+    cd ~/monkeysphere.git
+    git add remote SERVERNAME USER@SERVERNAME.monkeysphere.info:/path/to/repo
+
+Test:
+
+    git push SERVERNAME
+
+
+