Alm Lab Website

http://almlab.mit.edu/

Notes on how to add new member content are in the github wiki.

Pushing to this repo automatically updates the website. You can also "run" this by visiting http://almlab.mit.edu/make.php.

How to update

Updating the website follows this workflow:

• you edit the webpage on your own computer,
  • navigate to the web_scripts folder and run make to build a local version of the website
  • look at it in your browser to make sure it looks good, etc.
• git commit those changes
• git push your changes to the repo
• and then, automagically*, github.com will visit make.php, which will cause athena to run "git pull" and "make"
  • if almlab.mit.edu hasn't updated in a few seconds, then you can visit almlab.mit.edu/make.php and see the error log and troubleshoot from there
  • if you visit almlab.mit.edu and don't see your updates, try force-reloading the page (press Shift while clicking the refresh button)

*github.com is set up to ping make.php with Codeship (which you can get to from here), but a webhook can probably do the same thing and would probably be an easier way to do it... Could be worth investigating.

Accessing the website on Athena

The website is on Athena, at /afs/athena.mit.edu/org/a/almlab/. (To log in to Athena, ssh your_kerberos@athena.dialup.mit.edu)

Members of the almlab-www Moira group have read and write permissions (learn more about permissions on Athena here).

Communicating back and forth to/from Athena and this repo probably involves changing the git config user.name to match your GitHub username. You also probably need an ssh key.