Static site hosting/create

Note: This guideline is written by Shauna, for Shauna. You will likely have to adapt it to your needs/permissions - please do contact us if you need help!

To create an event webpage in the style of this one:

• Building the website
  • Fork the template repository (as Github limits the number of forks an individual can make of a single repo, you may need to fork a different oh-campus site or email Github to request your previous forks be made free-standing repositories.)
  • Customize
    • Change repository name to reflect event
    • Change colors if needed (I like to use school colors)
    • Change text: date, time, location, name of hosts
    • Create a new sign up form for the event (may just duplicate previous ones) and change the link on the website.
  • Add, commit, and push changes back to Github.
• Set up NearlyFreeSpeech.net site
  • Visit https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
  • Log in as Asheesh (paulproteus) by clicking "Member Login", etc. (sadly I think only Asheesh can do this due to nfs.net permissions)
  • Click "Accounts" in top nav
  • Click "OpenHatch" account
  • Click "Create a new site"
  • Type oh-university_name in the site name field
  • Enter university_name.openhatch.org in the "User another name" form
  • Choose "Static content, stochastic" as site type
  • Click "Create now"
  • Visit the site's admin panel in NFS.net, and then "Add a new alias"
  • Add www.university_name.openhatchorg as an alias
• Set up domain name with linode.com
  • Log into linode.com (username openhatch) and create a new CNAME record
    • Go to DNS manager and click 'Create new CNAME record'
    • Alias <campusname>.openhatch.org to oh<campusname>.nfshost.com
    • Also alias www.<campusname> to <campusname>
• SSH into linode
  • cp -a old_dir new_dir
  • cd new_dir
  • rm -rf data
  • git clone git://github.com/openhatch/oh-whatever-it-is.git data
  • edit and run ./update_and_push
    • row 6: change url
    • row 15: change ssh command

If you want auto-updating:

• on staticsites@linode.openhatch.org, edit ~/public_html/index.cgi to add a new repo_url2directory based on the templates you see.
• on GitHub, configure http://linode.openhatch.org/~staticsites/ as a web hooks URL.
  • To do that, first visit your repo, e.g. http://github.com/openhatch/oh-campus-foss
  • Click settings to go to e.g. https://github.com/openhatch/oh-campus-foss/settings
  • Click Service hooks to go to e.g. https://github.com/openhatch/oh-campus-foss/settings/hooks
  • Click WebHook URLs
  • Add http://linode.openhatch.org/~staticsites/ into the form, and click Update settings. Ta-da!
• Visit http://linode.openhatch.org/~staticsites/ to make sure it prints "You probably want to POST." rather than "Error 500".
• That should be it.