How to deploy your project pages through GitLab

[Raymond Toy]

Thanks.  This should work out just fine, but I'll ask Carl since he
mirrors this to cmucl.org.  I'll let you know how it goes but I don't
expect any issues.


On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 2:00 PM Erik Huelsmann
<ehuelsmann at common-lisp.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Ray,
>
> I'm thinking we don't store any surprises in /var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/shared/pages, so I could "open up" permissions of that directory. Then you could use rsync to sync /var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/shared/pages/cmucl/cmucl-site/public/.
>
> I've opened up this path: /var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/shared/pages/cmucl/cmucl-site/public
>
> So, you should be able to access it using rsync now. Let me know if you have further questions or issues to get the sync up and running.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Erik.
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 10:44 PM Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Friendly ping on what the best way would be to get the html files.
>> It's preferable to be able to use rsync so that we don't needlessly
>> download files that haven't changed.
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 11:49 AM Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 10:49 AM Erik Huelsmann
>> > <ehuelsmann at common-lisp.net> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I've adjusted the Apache config (and moved the /project/cmucl/public_html/downloads directory to /project/cmucl/downloads to test). You can now use the GitLab site deployment through GitLab Pages and expect the directory /project/*/downloads to be mapped into the site at https://common-lisp.net/project/*/downloads.
>> >
>> > I moved public_html out of the way, and everything looks good.
>> >
>> > And even better, I don't have to change any of the existing links from
>> > either the site or the cmucl wiki.  Awesome!
>> >
>> > Thank you so much!
>> > >
>> > >>
>> > >>   I will
>> > >> have to update the site and all the wiki pages to point to the right
>> > >> place but this should be a very simple search and replace.  And let
>> > >> people who mirror the site know what the new path is.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > There are 2 new paths to be mirrored, (a) with the site; (b) with the downloads:
>> > >
>> > > (a) /var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/shared/pages/cmucl/cmucl-site/public
>> > > (b) /srv/project/cmucl/downloads
>> >
>> > I'm a bit confused on what these two paths mean.  Is (a) where the
>> > actual html pages live?  Previously, the html pages were stored in
>> > public_html/mirror. (Also, I don't seem to have access to that
>> > directory.)
>> >
>> > And (b) is the path I can use to rsync all the downloads?  I'm
>> > guessing the site generator doesn't have access to the downloads path?
>> >
>> > Again, I'm really grateful for you help with this.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ray
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ray



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Ray