Static websites

To avoid having one Django app running per year, and all complications which come with it, websites of previous years are crawled to make a static copy and the static files are served. Only the current year is served by a Django app.

Example of a static website:

• Web: https://2018.webcampzg.org/
• Sources: https://github.com/WebCampZg/2018.static

Freeze

In the conference-web project, remove parts of the website which should not be present in the static website - typically the login links/forms and the dashboard. For example check out `this commit`_.

Crawl a living Django website to make a static copy.

wget --page-requisites --mirror 2018.webcampzg.org

Create a repo named `<year>.static`_ and push the static site contents there.

Deploy

How to deploy a static site, such as https://github.com/WebCampZg/2018.static.

Clone the website:

git clone https://github.com/WebCampZg/2018.static.git ~/web/2018.static

Configure nginx to serve it:

/etc/nginx/sites-available/2018.webcampzg.org

 server {
   listen 80;
   server_name 2018.webcampzg.org;

   return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
 }

 server {
   listen 443;
   server_name 2018.webcampzg.org;
   add_header X-Clacks-Overhead "GNU Terry Pratchett";

   access_log /var/log/nginx/2018.webcampzg.org-access.log;
   error_log /var/log/nginx/2018.webcampzg.org-error.log;

   ssl on;
   ssl_certificate     /etc/letsencrypt/live/webcampzg.org/fullchain.pem;
   ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/webcampzg.org/privkey.pem;

   location / {
     root /home/webcamp/web/2018.static/;
   }
 }

Reload nginx:

sudo service nginx reload

The static website should now be available at https://2018.webcampzg.org/