Website

The official Free Geek website is located at http://freegeekvancouver.org.

It is a static website built using Woodcut, and hosted locally at Free Geek. The website source is version-controlled with git at FGV app/website repo.

The main contacts for the website are the Free Geek Vancouver sysadmins <[email protected]>.

Pre-requisites

You will need to have a public SSH key registered to the server by a sysadmin.

Woodcut is required to build the website source. Install it on your workstation like this:

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
git clone git://github.com/lukecyca/woodcut.git
cd woodcut
python setup.py install

• Clone the repository: git clone http://repo.shop.lan/r/app/website.git/
• Add production remote: git remote add production [email protected]:app/website

Making Changes to the Website

Prerequisites

• Reset Boron before making any updates, because our servers hate us:

ssh boron.shop.lan
sudo reboot

• Once Boron has rebooted, clean out any temporary files:

ssh boron.shop.lan
sudo apt-get clean

• Use df -h to ensure the amount of filespace has increased.

Editing and testing

• cd website
• git pull --ff-only
• Edit files to change as necessary
• Run woodcut to see final output: woodcut build . /tmp/www --copy
• View output at file:///tmp/www in your webbrowser

Deployment

• git add <modified file>
• git commit It will ask you to enter a message describing your changes
• git push production master

oh gosh there's errors

• Do all these in a terminal:

touch fix
git add fix
git commit -m 'fix'
git rm fix
git commit -m 'fix deploy'
ssh boron.shop.lan
sudo reboot
wait for a few minutes, chill out
ssh boron.shop.lan
sudo apt-get clean
try pushing again