I use Hakyll to maintain this site. See the
bin
directory for the site.hs which builds the site statically.
├── bin hakyll source code
├── etc nginx local config files
├── files downloads, global to site
├── pages special pages (colophon, error pages)
│ └── errors
├── posts one time posts, with possible updates
├── projects ongoing, updated projects
├── resources static resources
│ ├── css
│ ├── img
│ └── js
├── src non hakyll source files
│ └── psd
└── templates templates used by hakyll
Local site modifications are tested until correct and pushed to github for offsite storage. When site updates are ready for public deployment I push to my web server.
Some subdirectories, notably the project subdirectories, are managed using git-subtree. The web pages for those project are identical to the github repository for those projects. The Hakyll site.hs code processes them and converts the github specific absolute urls to be relative to my server's webroot.
Git subtree has the advantage of allowing me to work on the project from either the main project directory on my machine or from the website directory (for local site preview). Additionally, the project itself is maintained with several git-subtree subdirectories, allowing me to break out the vim subdirectory as it's own repository and work on it, for instance, from within my personal dotfiles.
See http://chrisdone.com/posts/2010-04-04-hakyll-and-git-for-you-blog.html for other details on a similar hakyll-github-server deployment process that I took inspiration from.
Building Hakyll site.hs
ghc --make bin/site
Clean and preview site locally. bin
is in my path so I can just use site
and it will source locally.
site clean
site preview
site preview 8900
(alternate port)
Create git-subtree repo (my own standardized naming conventions)
Add remotes:
git remote add remote-solarized \ git@github.com:altercation/solarized.git
Add subtrees:
git subtree add --prefix=projects/solarized \ remote-solarized master
Pull changes into local subtree
git subtree pull --prefix=projects/solarized \ remote-solarized master
Push changes from local subtree
git subtree push --prefix=projects/solarized \ remote-solarized master
Push to github
standard commit and push
Deploy to live site
git push aithops
Site root and config
/srv/www
├── commons
│ └── errors
│ ├── 403
│ ├── 404
│ └── 50x
├── domains
│ └── domain.tld
├── etc
└── logs
Create repository and configure on remote
www@aithops$ mkdir ethanschoonover.com www@aithops$ cd ethanschoonover.com www@aithops$ git init www@aithops$ git config receive.denyCurrentBranch 'ignore' www@aithops$ cd .. www@aithops$ chmod -R g+w ethanschoonover.com
(last command only required as I'll be commiting as a different user that is also a member of the www group)
Post-receive Hook
ethanschoonover.com/.git/hooks/post-receive file (ensure this is set to executable):
#!/bin/bash
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
if [ -n $GIT_DIR ]; then
unset GIT_DIR
cd ..
fi
# force checkout
git checkout -f
# build site binary (if no change it won't build)
ghc --make bin/site
#backup current state for quick recovery, just in case
rm -rf _previous
cp -r _site _previous
# build site to _site directory
# note: this is not a full rebuild, but could be
# if we did a relink to the _previous directory prior
# to the rebuild, then a link back to _site
bin/site build
# ensure we have the correct link on initial build
# (commented out option force overrides)
# ln -sfn _site _live
if [ ! -h _live ]; then
ln -s _site _live;
fi
Commit to server
$ git push aithops
See my dotfile repository for my master gitignore file. I've added both _cache and _site there (along with the standard haskell ignores) and locally I've added bin/site (the compile hakyll binary).