nizol.net

Source files for http://nizol.net.

Local set-up

Bare Metal

The following provides instructions for setting up the website on a local Ubuntu 14.04 machine.

• Install LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP):

  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

• Create a custom site in /etc/apache2/sites-available:

  • Copy the default configuration: cp 000-default.conf nizol.net.conf
  • Edit nizol.net.conf to point DocumentRoot to the directory storing the website
  • Enable the site: sudo a2dissite 000-default && sudo a2ensite nizol.net

• Update /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

  • Add Servername localhost under "Global Configuration"
  • Add the following Directory directive:

   <Directory /path/to/local/website>
     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
     Order allow,deny
     AllowOverride All
     Allow from All
     Require all granted
   </Directory>

• Ensure apache has access to the local website

  • Add your username to the www-data group: sudo usermod -a -G www-data username
  • Log off and log back on
  • Change permissions on the website directory: chmod -R 2750 /path/to/local/website

• Enable mod_rewrite: sudo a2enmod rewrite

• Restart apache: service apache2 restart

• Direct the browser to localhost

Docker

To run the site in Docker, run make serve.