PSA: I made this tool work using some scripts

[ItsIgnacioPortal]

I've created a setup so that when I want to deploy ghost to github pages, I just run have to run ghostdeploy in cmd, then git commit -m "some message" and git push. This is the result: https://itsignacioportal.github.io/. No broken links, no broken images, no errors :)

Environment:
Windows 10

• node v16.14.2
• Ghost-CLI version: 1.19.2
• Ghost version: 4.41.3 (at ~\AppData\Local\Ghost_Server)
• ghostdeploy.bat in a folder that's part of %PATH% //This is the script we launch
• python 3.9
• replacer3.py //Used mainly to fix links
• ImageMagick (Used to resize images, for more performance on github pages)

WSL:

• Debian
• node v16.14.2 installed via NVM
• gssg installed. //gssg doesn't work on Windows with Cygwin, but it does work on WSL, idk why
• gssgsummoner.sh at $HOME //A wrapper for gssg
• gitcleaner.sh at $HOME //deletes all files except ".git" folder, and my google search console ownership file
• /etc/hosts modified to redirect localhost to 192.168.50.21 (beware of the warning on the first line of the file) //modification done because otherwise you would need to have Ghost running directly on WSL, and that's just bothersome for many reasons

The /etc/hosts redirection was made persistant using a scheduled task that runs "with the highest privileges" on user log-in (See: MicrosoftDocs/WSL#418):

@echo off
wsl -d Debian -u root ip addr add 192.168.50.11/24 broadcast 192.168.50.255 dev eth0 label eth0:1

netsh interface ip add address "vEthernet (WSL)" 192.168.50.21 255.255.255.0
@echo on
exit

You'll obviously have to modify some paths to make this work for you, but hey, it's better than starting at nothing. I spent three days making all of these scripts :p

ghostdeploy.bat:

@echo off

REM Summon the Ghost Static Page Generator
wsl.exe -d Debian cd /mnt/c/Users/Sherman/Documents/GitHub/ItsIgnacioPortal.github.io/ ^&^& /home/pinkdev1/gitcleaner.sh ^&^& echo "[+] Running the Ghost Static Site Generator (gssg)..." ^&^& /home/pinkdev1/gssgsummoner.sh

REM Fix picture links
echo [+] Fixing picture links and dangling hrefs...
py -3.9 "C:\Program Files\HackingSoftware\ghost\replacer3.py"

REM Fix profile picture
echo [+] Fixing profile picture...
cd C:\Users\Sherman\Documents\GitHub\ItsIgnacioPortal.github.io
mkdir content\images\size\w100\2022\03
REM Make sure to modify the Circle-2.png filename to match the actual filename of your uploaded profile picture
magick convert content/images/2022/03/Circle-2.png -resize 100x100! content/images/size/w100/2022/03/Circle-2.png

echo [+] Commiting files...
git config --global core.safecrlf false
git add .

echo [+] The blog is now ready for deployment!
echo [+] Just pick a commit message, and push it to the repo.

cd C:\Users\Sherman\Documents\GitHub\ItsIgnacioPortal.github.io

(file on WSL) gitcleaner.sh

#!/bin/bash

shopt -s extglob
cd /mnt/c/Users/Sherman/Documents/GitHub/ItsIgnacioPortal.github.io/
echo "[+] (WSL): Deleting everything except .git folder on \"/mnt/c/Users/Sherman/Documents/GitHub/ItsIgnacioPortal.github.io/\"..."
rm -rf !(.git|googleeef7c96830aeb56d.html)

replacer3.py

import os

root_dir = 'C:\\Users\\Sherman\\Documents\\GitHub\\ItsIgnacioPortal.github.io'
githubPagesDomain = "itsignacioportal.github.io"
fourLetterAllowedExtensions = ["html"]
threeLetterAllowedExtensions = ["xml", "css", "txt", "xsl"]
twoLetterAllowedExtensions = ["js"]

#There's probably a better way of doing this, but works well enough
def hasAllowedExtension(file):
	if file[-4:] in fourLetterAllowedExtensions:
		return True

	if file[-3:] in threeLetterAllowedExtensions:
		return True

	if file[-2:] in twoLetterAllowedExtensions:
		return True

	return False

def replaceStrings(searchText, replaceText, file):
	print("[+] Replacing \"" + searchText +"\" in \"" + file + "\" ...")
	#https://stackoverflow.com/a/17141572/11490425
	# Read in the file
	with open(file, 'r') as iofile :
		filedata = iofile.read()

	# Replace the target string
	filedata = filedata.replace(searchText, replaceText)

	# Write the file out again
	with open(file, 'w') as iofile:
		iofile.write(filedata)

def replaceStringsInDir(searchText, replaceText, folder):
	for file in os.listdir(folder):
		#print(folder + "\\" + file)
		if os.path.isdir(folder + "\\" +file) and file != ".git":
			file = folder + "\\" + file
			print("[+][DEBUG] Recursing to: " + file)
			replaceStringsInDir(searchText, replaceText, file)
		elif hasAllowedExtension(file):
			replaceStrings(searchText, replaceText, folder + "\\" + file)


def replaceRecursively(searchText, replaceText, mainfolder):
	for file in os.listdir(root_dir):
		if file != ".git":
			if os.path.isdir(mainfolder + file):
				replaceStringsInDir(searchText, replaceText, mainfolder + "\\" + file)
			else:
				replaceStringsInDir(searchText, replaceText, mainfolder)

os.chdir(root_dir)
replaceRecursively("http://localhost:2368", "https://" + githubPagesDomain, root_dir)

#Fix sitemaps
replaceStrings("href=\"//localhost:2368", "href=\"//" + githubPagesDomain, root_dir + "\\" + "sitemap-authors.xml")
replaceStrings("href=\"//localhost:2368", "href=\"//" + githubPagesDomain, root_dir + "\\" + "sitemap-pages.xml")
replaceStrings("href=\"//localhost:2368", "href=\"//" + githubPagesDomain, root_dir + "\\" + "sitemap-posts.xml")
replaceStrings("href=\"//localhost:2368", "href=\"//" + githubPagesDomain, root_dir + "\\" + "sitemap-tags.xml")
replaceStrings("href=\"//localhost:2368", "href=\"//" + githubPagesDomain, root_dir + "\\" + "sitemap.xml")

(file on WSL) gssgsummoner.sh

#!/bin/bash
cd /mnt/c/Users/Sherman/Documents/GitHub/ItsIgnacioPortal.github.io/
gssg --productionDomain "https://itsignacioportal.github.io" --dest "/mnt/c/Users/Sherman/Documents/GitHub/ItsIgnacioPortal.github.io/"

[ItsIgnacioPortal]

These scripts are no longer needed :D

https://github.com/itsignacioportal/ghost-static-site-generator/