The source for my Jekyll-powered website lives in a git repo, but the website also needs to have a couple large static files that are too large to go under version control. Thus, they are not part of the Jekyll build pipeline.
I would like for these to simply live in an assets directory in the Jekyll destination (which is a server directory; note that I don't have have any control over the server here; all I can do is dump static files into a designated directory) that does not exist in the git repo. But, running jekyll build deletes everything in the output directory.
Is there a way to change Jekyll's behavior in this case? Or is there some other good way to handle this issue?
Not sure this addresses the specific case in the OP, but seeing as how I kept getting to this page when I finally found an answer here, I thought I'd add an answer to this question in case it helps others.
I have a git post-hook that builds my jekyll site in my webhost when I push to my host, but it was also deleting anything else that I had FTP'ed over. So now I've put anything I need to stick around in a directory (external/ in my case), and added the following to my _config.yml:
exclude: [external]
keep_files: [external]
and now files in external/ survive.
If you upload Jekyll's output directory via FTP to your server, you can use a FTP tool that lets you ignore folders.
For example, my own site is built with Jekyll, but hosted on my own webspace, so I'm uploading it via FTP.
I explained in this answer how I scripted the building and uploading process, so I can update my site with a single click.
In my case (Windows), I used WinSCP, a free command-line FTP client, for this.
If you're not on Windows, you need to use something else, but there are probably other FTP tools out there that are able to ignore folders.
To ignore your assets folder in WinSCP, you just need to put this line into the script file:
(the file which contains the actual WinSCP commands - read my other answer for more information)
option exclude "assets/"
Now you can upload your large assets folder on the server once, and it won't be overwritten/deleted when you later update your site via FTP.
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css is not working after uploading the file on server with filezilla i added file permission 755 on server and even after that it's not working.
I have changed /web/assets/d01711d6/css/bootstrap.css.
css is not working after uploading the file on server with filezilla i added file permission 755 on server after that it's not working.
This may depend on several factors.
Cache
If the application is hosted it may be that it is a problem of the server cache so the new CSS file is read to the cache expiration (sometimes several days). In some cases the provider it provides configurations for enabling a temporary mode that disables this mode and promptly update the files.
Asset Management
Another factor is related to the fact that the directory where content assets are dynamically generated so not always the name of the directory in the development environment and the production server match. It is in these cases to find (looking for it) the actual directory used by the server and replace the file in the right place.
If, as the practice, changes to css file was made in the original directory and not on the copy of the file created by dynamically from asset management, one usually proceeds by eliminating the directory containing the assets of interest and the first subsequent invocation of the application (the URL / link) a new directory of assets is created for these files
I built a site using a php openshift project and accessing the root directory via http works fine. However, all the root directories give me a 404 not found, like this one: http://test.toppagedesign.com/sites/
I checked with ssh, and /app-root/repo/sites and app-deployments/current/repo/sites/ both exist.
EDIT
Added a directory called php and now I have 503 errors for everything...
EDIT 2
I deleted the php directory, now the 503 errors are gone. However, I do still get 404 errors for the subdirectory.
Here is my directory tree: http://pastebin.com/hzPCsCua
And I do use git to deploy my project.
php is one of the alternate document roots that you can use, please see the March Release blog post here about this (https://www.openshift.com/blogs/openshift-online-march-2014-release-blog)
As for the sub-directories not working, can you ssh into your server and use the "tree" command to post the directory/file structure of your project? Also are you using Git to deploy your project or editing files directly on the server?
You need to have an index.php or index.html file in any directory that you want to work like app-domain.rhcloud.com/sites , if you just have sub-directories, how would it know what to show? Also, indexing (showing a folders contents) is not enabled for security reasons, and I believe there is no way to enable it.
This sounds like it could be a problem with how you are serving your static content.
I recently created a new sample app for OpenShift that includes:
a basic static folder
an .htaccess file (for serving assets in production)
support for using php's local server to handle the static content (in your dev environments)
Composer and Silex - a great starting point for most new PHP apps
You can serve the project locally if you have PHP-5.4 (or better), available in your dev environment:
php -S localhost:8080 -t static app.php
For a more advanced project that is built on the same foundation, take a look at this PHP+MongoDB mapping example. I wrote up a blog post with some notes on my process for composing that app as well.
Hope these examples help!
I'm starting a new web app with Openshift (jboss, mysql). It's the first time I use openshift and after reading through some doc and experimenting a bit with it, I'm having one question regarding best practices for the architecture of my app.
There will be some files generated by- or uploaded to the application (resources). I'd like those files to be outside the deployment folder so they are not erased/overwritten when the app deploys again. I have browsed through the directories and I was wondering:
is it ok to use the /var/lib/openshift/[openshift-id]/app-root/data folder for these files?
Yes, you should use your ~/app-root/data folder for any files that you want to not be erased when you do a git push, there is also an environment variable that you can use that points to that folder called OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR. Please note that if you are using a scaled application, that folder is not shared among your gears.
I'm considering Jekyll for a site I'm putting together that will be a blog with lots of images (and other larg-ish media files). It's easy enough to to make a directory for images and then link to them as needed in the posts. But, as I understand it, when the site is generated, all the image data will be duplicated into the generated _site directory that holds the static files. Each time the site is generated the _site directory is emptied, and repopulated with the static version of the site.
Is there any way to, for example, drop a symlink to the images directory inside the site directory, and then maybe have jekyll ignore it when the static files are generated?
Or is there another way to go about this that makes more sense?
Assuming you are running on an apache web server, you can setup an Alias directive to serve images from a directory outside of the normal docroot. You need access to edit the VirtualHosts config or some other ability to create aliases directives (e.g. via a control panel).
For an example of how this would work, let's say you are storing your jekyll files under a directory called "/web/jekyll". To get your images directory do the following:
Add an "_images" directory along with your basic jekyll tree. Ending up with something like:
_config.yml
_images/
_layouts/
_posts/
_site/
index.md
Update your apache config to add the Alias directive like:
Alias /images /web/jekyll/_images
Reload the apache config and run jekyll to build the site.
Since the image directory name starts with an underscore, jekyll won't push/copy it to the output _site during the build. Apache will happily serve most files from your _site directory as normal, but when it sees something like "http://jekyll/images/test.jpg", instead of looking for the file under "/web/jekyll/_site/_images/test.jpg", it'll serve it from "/web/jekyll/_images/test.jpg".
Incidentally, I like a little more separation of the source content and output content than jekyll defaults to. So, I setup my directory structure as follows:
/web/jekyll/html/
/web/jekyll/images/
/web/jekyll/source/
/web/jekyll/source/_config.yml
/web/jekyll/source/_layouts
/web/jekyll/source/_posts
/web/jekyll/source/index.md
With the following option set in _config.yml
destination: ../html
And the apache alias directive setup with:
Alias /images /web/jekyll/images
Jekyll is run in the "/web/jekyll/source" directory, but output is sent to the "/web/jekyll/html" dir. Similar to the first example, calls to "http://jekyll/images/test.jpg" are served from "/web/jekyll/images/test.jpg". This setup doesn't really make a difference from a site serving perspective. I just like the cleaner separation between the raw source files, the fully baked output files and the images which work via the alias.
Correct, the first part of the jekyll command removes everything in the destination directory. The problem with that is the symlinks must be manually created again. So next, go ahead and create a script that does this each time.
Be sure that:
exclude: [jekyll, css, img] in the _config.yml file
linux: The ";" symbol runs first, second, third.. commands.
script: A file named jekyll with executable permissions containing
jekyll;
ln -s /var/www/css /var/www/_site/css;
ln -s /var/www/img /var/www/_site/img;
Finally run (./jekyll) that program instead of jekyll.
-Dan
Make a project page for the images.
Set up directory structure
/home/git/svnpenn.github.io
/home/git/img
Run Jekyll
# We cant add the symlink until after jekyll is done. We will remove the
# site folder and wait for it to rebuild.
rm -r _site
jekyll --server &
while [ ! -f _site/index.html ]
do
sleep 1
done
ln -s ../images _site/images
Note I was using this because I thought it would help publish time on GitHub
pages. It does not. GitHub can take 1-10 minutes to publish depending on the
server.
I know this has already been answered, but I went a slightly different route. I hosted all of my images in a public directory on Dropbox and use grunt to generate a manifest of the images. It keeps my repository small because the images don't get checked in. I detailed it a while back in a blog post.
I've just installed Kohana 3.0.4.2 and I have run the index.php file successfully. According to the documentation, the next step is to edit the config files in the application/config folder. I have that folder but there are no files in it! I downloaded the package again to make sure it wasn't corrupted, but the same problem exists. Why is the application/config folder empty?
You're probably looking at outdated (2.*) documentation. The only config file to edit after an install is application/bootstrap.php. There is some configuration in index.php, but you really shouldn't be touching that unless you want to change the directories things are stored in.
The config folder is used for config files of your custom classes. Since you obviously don't have any in an empty project, the folder is empty. You can see an example of them in use by looking at system/config, where the config files for some of the system classes lie.
As of now, the best docs are the unofficial Kohana wiki. There's also the official docs, but they're a work in progress.
One of the best things about Kohana 3 is that it's extensible and really modular.
In you case, there are no config files by default, you only have the clean framework with couple of modules ( you'll find them in the /modules folder ). Every modul has pretty much the same hierarchy as application folder, so you'll probably find the default config files there.
If you need database config, go to /modules/database/config/ and you'll find the default one, copy it to application/config and you've overwriten the default one from being used ( Kohana autoload just works this way; first looks for files in application folder, then the loaded modules folder(s), and the system (framework) folder is the last.