cjquines / iap

deploy instructions:

• login to athena

• sign up for scripts

  • if you're hosting this out of your own locker (kerberos.scripts.mit.edu) then you want to sign up your personal athena account

• ssh into scripts

  • you'll be dropped in ~/web_scripts
  • every command below should be while sshed into scripts, not into athena

• make a folder called iap-backend, clone this repo

  • mkdir iap-backend
  • git clone https://github.com/cjquines/iap.git
  • cd iap

• in the new folder, make a deploy.sh or some other script that updates it, with contents probably

  cd ~/web_scripts/iap-backend/iap
  rm -rf ./_events/*
  python3 scrape.py
  bundle exec jekyll build
  

• set deploy.sh to be executable and test it

  • chmod +x deploy.sh
  • ./deploy.sh
  • go to kerberos.scripts.mit.edu/iap-backend/iap/_site, should be visible
  • in theory you can now run ./deploy.sh to update, and then point people to your url

• get a better url by making a symlink

  • cd ~/web_scripts
  • ln -s iap-backend/iap/_site iap
  • go to kerberos.scripts.mit.edu/iap, should be visible

• run ./deploy.sh automatically by editing a crontab

  • first, give scripts permission to write data
    • cd ~/web_scripts/iap-backend/iap
    • athrun scripts fssar daemon.scripts write
  • then, edit your crontab
    • crontab -e
    • add the entry 0 * * 12,1 * /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/k/e/kerberos/web_scripts/iap-backend/iap/deploy.sh
    • (or whatever absolute path, use pwd to check)
    • (or whatever cron schedule expression, this one is "every hour in december and january")
  • make sure to test this, this is fragile!