ikiwiki/ tips/ Laptop Ikiwiki extended

I have (at least) three different hosts, `laptop`, `gitserver`, and `webserver`.

1. I started by following laptop wiki with git to create a bare repo on `gitserver`, and clone that to a workingdir on gitserver.

   On the laptop clone gitserver:repo /working/dir

   Next create a setup file for the laptop with

       gitorigin_branch=> "",
       git_wrapper => "/working/dir/.git/hooks/post-commit",

   At this point, assuming you followed page above, and not my hasty summary,

       git commit -a

   should rebuild the output of your wiki.

2. Now create a setup file for the server (I call it server.setup).

       gitorigin_branch=> "origin",
       git_wrapper => "/repo/wiki.git/hooks/post-update.ikiwiki"

   Note the non-standard and bizzare name of the hook.

   edit /repo/wiki.git/hooks/post-update so that it looks something like

       /repo/wiki.git/hooks/post-update.ikiwiki
       rsync -cavz /home/me/public_html/* webserver:/destdir

   Run

       ikiwiki --setup server.setup

Now in principle when you run git push on the laptop, the git server will first do its "regular" thing and update ~/public_html (in my case) and then rsync it onto the webserver. For this to work, you need passwordless ssh or something like it.

DavidBremner