X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/aa4b6da8708254d44097946712b92a6568eb79a4..2245b42f748beba30e164becf25ef9bf63eae36d:/projects/www.mdwn

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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# The SIPB Website
+[[!meta title="The SIPB Website"]]
 
 ## Design
 
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 * A design that could be reused for other websites with minor color tweaking would be nice (like the Debathena stylesheet)
 * Rectangles and straight lines make it look angular and stark
 * The design is too generic; needs more SIPB personality, so that another website couldn't just be swapped in
+* Consider rebranding possibilities (e.g. making fuzzball more "internal" like octocat on github, developing new logos, etc.) (publicity opportunities)
 
 ## Todo
 
@@ -23,3 +24,64 @@
 * other widgets
 * migrate sipb.mit.edu/doc
 * usability tests
+
+## How Things Work
+
+(this is by fawkes's understanding, it may be wrong)
+
+###When a request comes in:
+ a connection comes in for sipb.mit.edu which via a hack in MIT DNS gets directed instead to PENGUIN-LUST.MIT.EDU. If its on ports 80, (443?), or 444 it gets passed off to scripts (where its handled by b-m or b-k, whichever).
+
+vhost configuration on scripts looks in ~~sipb-ww/web_scripts and checks the .htaccess file:
+
+if request is for /rtfm.html, pass through
+if request is for /iap pass of to stuff/iap (lives in  /afs/athena.mit.edu/activity/s/sipb-iap/www/ of all place) 
+if request if for /cgit, or /wiki pass through
+else pass request for foo to wiki/foo, served from there
+
+
+###For developments sake:
+
+####How Do I make edits?
+If you want to just edit contents, use the web interface (edit links at bottom of page) or "git clone git+ssh://sipb-www@scripts.mit.edu/mit/sipb-www/wiki.git", make your edits in the mdwn, etc.
+
+When you commit, ikiwiki should get automatically republished as HTML
+
+
+####Detailed Locker Layout
+
+    .
+    |-- Scripts: was being used for scripts.git, currently unused
+    |-- arch
+    |   \-- amd64_fedora9_scripts: binaries related to publishing ikiwiki
+    |-- bin, lib, sbin: links into arch
+    |-- man: a link into arch, ikiwiki manpages. 
+    |        add sipb-www to get them into MANPATH
+    |-- share -> arch/amd64_fedora9_scripts/share
+    |   |-- ikiwiki: where some basic things are pulled from during build
+    |   |-- locale: i18n things we aren't using
+    |   `-- man: where the manpages really live
+    |-- ikiwiki: thing of it as like a mix of etc and build
+    |   |-- cgitrc : configuration for cgit
+    |   |-- ikiwiki.setup: configuration for ikiwiki
+    |   `-- src: where the git repo (wiki.git) is staged for building
+    |-- src
+    |   |-- cgit: where cgit was built from (not actively changed)
+    |   |-- ikiwiki.git: the git repository representing the SIPB 
+    |                   variation on ikiwiki. 
+    |   `-- old.ikiwiki: irrelevant
+    |-- web_scripts
+    |   |-- RCS: .htaccess mus be versioned
+    |   |-- cgit: what you look at when you click on "History"
+    |   |-- doc: the old Trac Wiki
+    |   |-- iap -> /mit/sipb-iap/www
+    |   |-- radiant: old and irrelevant
+    |   |-- rtfm: contains an index.html identical to rtfm.html below
+    |   |-- rtfm.html: served for rtfm.mit.edu:80
+    |   `-- wiki: the published HTML that you are being served right now
+    |-- web_scripts_tmp: old directory around to keep trac up-to-date. Should 
+    |                    vanish sooner or later
+    `-- wiki.git: this is where all the content lives as markdown. Clone this 
+                   if you hate web interfaces
+
+