kwhite / telomereproject

Funding lifesaving efforts for those affected by telomere syndromes (TS), in particular, those which result in shortened telomeres or low telomere promotion.

The Telomere Project

https://thetelomereproject.org

This site is hosted on GoDaddy, but we use the GitHub repository as the source of truth for this project. Do not commit WordPress core files or uploaded assets here.

All work on this repository should be done in feature branches. When you are feature-complete, please create a Pull Request to merge your work into master. Having your branch up to date with master is your responsibility as the developer, so please resolve any conflicts prior to creating your PR. There is a PR template in this repository that should be filled out with an PR or your PR may be rejected.

Site Defaults

• DOCROOT: ./
• VIRTUAL_HOST: telomere.docksal
• XDEBUG_ENABLED: false

Should you wish to change any of these settings for your local environment, please add the appropriate variables to your docksal-local.env file prior to running fin init.

Features

• Adds hosts record with VIRTUAL_HOST
• Downloads WordPress core on initial setup

Setup instructions

1. Clone this repo into your Projects directory.

   git clone [e-mail]:kwhite/telomereproject.git
   cd telomereproject
   

2. Initialize the site.

   This will initialize local settings and install the site via wp-cli:

   fin init
   

3. Download a copy of the site database from the most recent restore point in WP Engine. The credentials are stored in LastPass. Put the file in your project root. Then run the following commands.

   cd telomereproject
   fin wp db import mysql.sql
   fin wp search-replace 'https://thetelomereproject.org' 'http://telomere.docksal'
   

4. Proxy the files directory to the production site on GoDaddy. This will need to be done in your docksal-local.env file. Copy the following lines to your config.

   TBD
   

   Alternatively, you can just download the uploads directory to your local from GoDaddy over SFTP (not recommended).

5. Point your browser to http://telomere.docksal

6. Happy Pressing!

Troubleshooting tips

Serving uploads locally

If you choose to serve the uploads directory locally and you run into read permission errors on site load, try running the following command from within the telomereproject directory.

sudo chmod -R 755 uploads