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# Packages

  * sthttpd (thttpd)

    Installation done by Richard.
    [[!message-id "20151122000109.GA8492@shattrath"]].

  * ikiwiki

    Modified package, `ikiwiki_3.20140227_all.deb`, which contains some patch
    (not yet in a suitable form for upstream) to get rendering of our news
    pages correct (correct?).  Thus, set the package to `hold` with `dpkg
    --set-selections`.  To avoid [garbled non-ascii characters in body in web
    interface](https://ikiwiki.info/bugs/garbled_non-ascii_characters_in_body_in_web_interface/),
    manually `patch /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/CGI.pm` with upstream commits
    feb21ebfacb341fc34244e1c9b8557fd81d1dfc1, and
    f35c6a97d1837a37879996211bd6f3c8eb356df9 ([[!debbug 776181]]).

      * libcgi-session-perl libtext-csv-perl libcgi-formbuilder-perl
        libauthen-passphrase-perl libnet-openid-consumer-perl
        libterm-readline-gnu-perl libgravatar-url-perl librpc-xml-perl
        libtext-wikiformat-perl libhighlight-perl perlmagick graphviz texinfo

      * libemail-send-perl (for my *sendmail vs. ikiwiki* patch)

        2015-10-05:

            E: Package 'libemail-send-perl' has no installation candidate

          * <http://snapshot.debian.org/package/libreturn-value-perl/1.666004-1/#libreturn-value-perl_1.666004-1>
          * <http://snapshot.debian.org/package/libemail-send-perl/2.199-1/#libemail-send-perl_2.199-1>

      * libsearch-xapian-perl xapian-omega (for ikiwiki's search plugin)

      * libyaml-perl libyaml-syck-perl (for ikiwiki's YAML field plugins)

      * libtext-markdown-perl (used instead of libtext-markdown-discount-perl,
        but the latter still needs to be installed)

    Make sure that liblwpx-paranoidagent-perl is not installed; OpenID logins
    with fail otherwise: *no_identity_server: Could not determine ID provider
    from URL*.  Issue discovered on 2014-02-28, but unclear since when it did
    actually occur.  Nothing in the apache logs.  Not fixed by the update to
    ikiwiki 3.20140227.

  * gitweb

    So one can view diffs of the wiki pages, etc.

        $ sudo ln -s ~hurd-web/hurd-web.git /var/lib/git/

  * git-daemon-sysvinit

    Enable as per `/usr/share/doc/git-daemon-sysvinit/README.Debian`.  Also set
    `GIT_DAEMON_OPTIONS=--export-all`, and `GIT_DAEMON_DIRECTORY='/var/lib/git'`.


# `~hurd-web/`

<http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/>, and Git access: push to/pull from
`darnassus:~hurd-web/hurd-web.git`.


## Setup

    $ mkdir hurd-web.git && GIT_DIR=hurd-web.git git init
    [...]

Configure the [`post-update` hook](http://ikiwiki.info/post-commit/):

    $ ln -is ../../public_html.workspace.update hurd-web.git/hooks/post-update

For a full rebuild:

    $ ./public_html.workspace.generate\ wrappers --rebuild

May want to clean up `~hurd-web/public_html.workspace/.ikiwiki/` before that.
/!\ But preserve the `userdb` file.

As a user with appropriate permissions, then install the CGI file:

    § sudo mv ~hurd-web/public_html.workspace.cgi /var/www/html/hurd-web.cgi


# `~tschwinge/`

/!\ TODO.

    $ mkdir tmp/backup && chmod 0733 tmp/backup


# `/var/www/robots.txt`

/!\ TODO.

This file used to contain:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /gitweb/
    Disallow: /cgi-bin/

... which I've now changed to:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

The goal is that robots rather index the official pages,
<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/>, instead of the staging area on
<http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/>.


# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-02-09

    <tschwinge> We need an httpd (Apache used to work), and ikiwiki and some
      such stuff.
    <tschwinge> This has its own git repository.
    <tschwinge> This was on a separate virtual machine.
    <tschwinge> Then there was the Git repository on flubber used for people to
      push to.
    <tschwinge> Ho -- let me actually try to remember the setup.  Has been some
      years...
    <braunr> what machine currently hosts the wiki ?
    <tschwinge> Anyway, there is no requirement for the web server to be on a
      separate machine; your decision.
    <tschwinge> braunr: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/public_hurd_boxen.html
    <tschwinge> snubber
    <tschwinge> That was the web server.
    <tschwinge> And flubber had the repository for developers to push to.
    <tschwinge> The repository for people to push to and pull from (used to be
      on flubber) would be on darnassus now.

    <tschwinge> braunr: Of course ;-) -- I had some parts of the process
      documented:
      http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/public_hurd_boxen/installation/snubber.html
    <tschwinge> If both Git repositories are to be on the same machine
      (darnassus) we might not actually need inetutils-inetd and netcat.
    <tschwinge> Still trying to figure out what I had done there...  ;-)
    <tschwinge> OK, I again understand the setup.  Last been touched in the
      2008/2009 timeframe.  ;-)

    <tschwinge> I'll add a hurd-web user.
    <tschwinge> So...  I actually have to locate a backup of the files from
      flubber related to the wiki,
    * tschwinge goes searching his backup devices.
    <braunr> i added userdirs on darnassus' apache
    <tschwinge> braunr: I just noticed when I wanted to add it myself.  ;-)
    <tschwinge> braunr: Do you know about CGI scripts?
    <braunr> yes
    <tschwinge> braunr: snubber had these in /var/www/cgi-bin/; darnassus now
      in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/.
    <tschwinge> ikiwiki needs to install one CGI script.
    <braunr> ok
    <tschwinge> Does this go into /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ then?  Or into ~hurd-web/
      and a symlink somewhere?
    <braunr> ikiwiki should have installed it where it's appropriate
    <braunr> normally in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <tschwinge> It's a CGI script that is generated per ikiwiki instance, so
      specific to hurd-web.
    <braunr> where does it install it by default ?
    <tschwinge> $PWD ;-)
    <braunr> ah
    <braunr> it seems a bit silly to me to generate cgi scripts :/
    <braunr> i don't care much actually, we won't have virtual servers
    <braunr> so anywhere is fine
    <tschwinge> What does the +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Apache option mean?
    <braunr> apache will normally not follow symlink
    <braunr> unless the owner of the symlink is the same as the target's
    <braunr> (with this option)
    <tschwinge> That's enabled for CGI scripts.  So would it work to have a
      symlink /usr/lib/cgi-bin/hurd-web.cgi -> ~hurd-web/hurd-web.cgi?
    <braunr> the traditional way to access cgi scripts is to explicitely refer
      to them as http://server/cgi-bin/script
    <braunr> using *.cgi may allow too open access to cgis
    <braunr> (although normally, the userdir conf should disable them)
    <braunr> hm not sure it does
    <braunr> so put it in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <tschwinge> So the hurd-web ikiwiki instance just needs to be configured
      accordingly with the URL where the CGI script will be found, and then it
      will render the pages accordingly.
    <tschwinge> OK.
    <braunr> and just named hurd-web