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--- hosting:websitesource [2018/08/21 12:44] – created jim
+++ hosting:websitesource [2023/03/13 15:10] (current) – jim
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-====== Website source and setting up from scratch ======
+====== Old website source and setting up from scratch ======
 Should you need to set up the website from scratch, either to restore operation or to create your own private copy for development, this is how to go about it.
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-The next stage is to load the database content. You need a copy of the latest backup from ''/archive/backups/mysql/accuorg_xar.sql.gz'' on ''dennis'. Ungzip it and source it:
+The next stage is to load the database content. You need a copy of the latest backup from ''/archive/backups/mysql/accuorg_xar.sql.gz'' on ''dennis''. Ungzip it and source it:
 <code sql>
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 We use Apache (on Debian Stable) to serve the live site, but there's no particular reason that you can't use anything else. You will also need PHP 5.6.
+The site code assumes that it is at the root of the domain being served, and that it is being served over HTTPS.
+===== Other configuration =====
+You will need to make the ''var'' directory writable by the webserver process. For Debian, I do this:
+<code bash>
+# chgrp -R www-data var
+# chmod -R g+w var
+</code>