X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/204dcda88bc595d1ad301a08ae25ebe4bd2afb8a..cf3e3c5a8849dcf7f43d055bb9555e088651bae4:/doc/tips/Hosting_Ikiwiki_and_master_git_repository_on_different_machines.mdwn diff --git a/doc/tips/Hosting_Ikiwiki_and_master_git_repository_on_different_machines.mdwn b/doc/tips/Hosting_Ikiwiki_and_master_git_repository_on_different_machines.mdwn index 35feacb71..e6277d338 100644 --- a/doc/tips/Hosting_Ikiwiki_and_master_git_repository_on_different_machines.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/Hosting_Ikiwiki_and_master_git_repository_on_different_machines.mdwn @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ I assume the [[rcs]] used is [[rcs/git]], but it might be done for other rcs. # Similar and related tips and problems +- [[tips/distributed_wikis]] References different way of distributing wikis (including this one). - [[http://www.icanttype.org/blog/ikiwiki_git_remote_repo/]] Similar to what I am describing, excepted that you must be able to connect to the machine hosting Ikiwiki using ssh. @@ -37,6 +38,8 @@ it on a remote machine, and tell Ikiwiki to use it instead of its local one. We will also ensure that the wiki is rendered whenever a commit is done to the git repository. +[[!img separate-web-git-servers.svg size=400x]] + # Conventions - We are building a wiki called *SITE*. @@ -143,14 +146,12 @@ the IkiWiki machine, and here is the deadlock. Explanations of the command: ## Going further - *Web server on a third machine* It should be possible to use a third machine - to host the web server. A hook might be used to export the rendered wiki on - this server, or use a nfs repository as the destination repository of - ikiwiki. However, allowing web modifications (using CGI) might be tricky… + to host the web server, using [[this documentation|tips/Git_repository_and_web_server_on_different_hosts/]]. - *Using [[gitolite|https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite]] to manage repositories on the git machine* Simply replace the manipulations of git on the git machine by the corresponding manipulations using gitolite. * With gitolite, you can use this line in a `post-update` hook: - `[ x"$GL_USER" = x"`*`gitolite-user`*`" ] || wget ...` + `[ x"$GL_USER" = x"`*`gitolite-user`*`" ] || wget ...` where *gitolite-user* is the name of the public key registered through gitolite. - thus, you filter out precisely the events that originate from the server-to-be-pinged, no matter what the commit id says. (For example, if you push commits you created on a local CGI ikiwiki, they'd be called '@web' as well). + Thus, you filter out precisely the events that originate from the server-to-be-pinged, no matter what the commit id says. (For example, if you push commits you created on a local CGI ikiwiki, they'd be called '@web' as well).