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FireHOL Website

This tree contains the sources for the FireHOL website: http://firehol.org

The website is built using nanoc 3.8.x, pandoc and nokogiri. If you have ruby 1.9+ (on your machine you can install them with gem:

sudo gem install nanoc --version 3.8.0
sudo gem install pandoc-ruby nokogiri

Note: building pandoc-ruby and nokogiri requires you to have installed the ruby headers (e.g. ruby1.9.1-dev Ubuntu 12.04 and ruby-dev on Debian Wheezy).

To be able to preview the site with a mini web-server, also install adsf:

sudo gem install adsf

More comprehensive install instructions for nanoc are here:

<http://nanoc.ws/install/>

Building the site locally

make

This will try to import the manual pages from the firehol package (you may need to update the locations variable) and build the HTML output.

Viewing the site locally

To view via a mini web server, run:

nanoc view

which makes the site available at:

<http://localhost:3000/>

Or, just point your browser to output/index.html once the site has been built.

Working in markdown

To create a page:

http://site/mypage

The filename reflects the URL directly, unless there is special processing in the Rules file (faqs and man examples, testimonies and newsitems directories). Therefore just create a file:

content/mypage.md

Adding the item to the site menu is just a matter of including a list item with a link in layouts/default.html in the sidebar div.

The beginning of the file is a nanoc header delimited by --- and should include a title (becomes the HTML title) and submenu (which causes the menu item in question to be marked open for this page):

---
title: My New Page
submenu: mymenu
---

See nanoc header for more information.

After the second --- just add normal markdown. The site is interpreted with pandoc http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdown and uses a couple of its extensions.

An erb filter is applied before any further processing, so it is possible to embed ruby code to print variables and use flow control. This also allows examples to be stored under content/examples and embedded with the include_example() function as well as writing them within the file. See adding an external example.

For instance:

# My New Page

Some text

or:

My New Page
===========

<% if some_condition  %>
Include this text
<% end  %>

Here is an embedded example:

<%= include_example("name-in-example-header") %>

*   Examples in a list need to understand the indentation level

    <%= include_example("name-in-example-header", "    ") %>

    Or the output will not work as expected

Here is an inline example which will be highlighted/linked for FireHOL:

~~~~ {.firehol}
firehol configuration
....
~~~~

For FireQOS:

~~~~ {.fireqos}
fireqos configuration
....
~~~~

Examples are automatically marked up with links to the manual for keywords. To manually link to a keyword or service, just write something like:

[src parameter](/keyword/firehol/src)

See special rules for more detail.

Working in HTML

The preferred format for pages is markdown, however if you need special processing it is also possible to add an HTML page. The rules are very similar to markdown.

To create a page:

http://site/mypage

Create a file:

content/mypage.html

With a nanoc header and insert the item in the menus in default/layout.html.

After the second --- of the nanoc header, just add normal HTML. This will be embedded in the template so you can start with an h1 and go from there.

The erb filter is applied before any further processing, so it is possible to embed ruby code to print variables and use flow control. This also allows examples to be stored under content/examples and embedded with the include_example() function as well as writing them within the file. See adding an external example.

For instance:

<h1>My New Page</h1>

<% if some_condition  %>
<p>Some conditional text</p>
<% end  %>

Here is an embedded example:

<%= include_example("name-in-example-header") %>

<p>Here is an inline example which will be highlighted/linked
for FireHOL:</p>

<pre class="firehol"><code>
firehol configuration
</code></pre>

<p>For FireQOS:</p>

<pre class="fireqos"><code>
fireqos configuration
</code></pre>

Examples are automatically marked up with links to the manual for keywords. To manually link to a keyword or service, just write something like:

<a href="/keyword/firehol/src">src parameter</a>

See special rules for more detail.

Nanoc Header

All files under content/ should start with a nanoc header, such as this:

---
title: My New Page
submenu: mymenu
---

Items between the --- are variables that get substituted into a template at points labelled <%= item[:variablename] %> or used for other processing.

For example: title - HTML page title (as displayed at the top of a browser window) submenu - if your page is in the site menu, add the appropriate submenu name so it is automatically expanded, otherwise omit it description - HTML meta description (a default is used if none is given) keywords - HTML meta keywords (a default list is used if none is given)

When page bodies are emitted, they are wrapped in a template (at the line <%= yield %>):

layouts/default.html

Adding an external example

Examples can be embedded directly into markdown and HTML files. They can also be extracted into a separate folder so they can be re-used across pages.

To do this, add a file under content/examples/ and start it with a customised nanoc header:

---
name: some-name
kind: example
keyword: fireqos
---

The kind must identify the file as an example. The name should not contain spaces and is used to refer to the example in other pages. The keyword value can be either firehol for fireqos and determines the type of syntax highlighting to use.

To include and automatically format an example in another page, add it thus:

<%= include_example("some-name") %>

Use ... to wrap lines in an example that should be highlighted within this particular example, e.g. they are additions compared to a prior example.

Special Rules

The following paths (both in url and under the contents/ directory have special rules and do not get generated directly into the output site:

  • /examples/ - Used to manage re-usable examples for inclusion elsewhere
  • /faqs/ - Used to manage Frequently Asked Questions one per file
  • /testimonies/ - Used to manage testimonials one per file
  • /newsitems/ - Used to manage news items one per file
  • /keyword/ - Used to link to real manual pages

Simply create an appropriate file with the appropriate header and the site compilation takes care of the rest.

The /keyword/ URLs are not defined as files anywhere: the values are extracted from the FireHOL/FireQOS reference manual during site compilation. The URLS are checked for validity and replaced automatically with the correct URL for within the manual.

To link to keywords in the manual, use URLs such as:

/keyword/firehol/src

In the form /keyword/product/keyword with an optional /disambiguator at the end (e.g. prio is used in both class and match in FireQOS). The complete list for FireHOL:

/keyword/firehol/mac/helper
/keyword/firehol/mac/param
/keyword/firehol/dscp/helper
/keyword/firehol/dscp/param
/keyword/firehol/mark/helper
/keyword/firehol/mark/param
/keyword/firehol/tos/helper
/keyword/firehol/tos/param

The list for FireQOS:

/keyword/fireqos/class/definition
/keyword/fireqos/class/param
/keyword/fireqos/prio/match
/keyword/fireqos/prio/class
/keyword/fireqos/priority/match
/keyword/fireqos/priority/class

The same system works for FireHOL services, e.g.:

/keyword/service/icmp
/keyword/service/ssh
...

Other references to the manual are created as:

/keyword/manref/whatever...

Near the top of lib/keyword-url.rb is a list of all such mappings, generated by calls to replace_link(). This is the correct place to add new references to the manual, to ensure they are cross-checked at compile time.

Link checking

make
nanoc view
./run-linkchecker
firefox linkchecker-out.html

When deployed as test.firehol.org, W3C provide:

The link checker is important, since the nginx config will take effect when the site is deployed.

Deployment

For deployment under nginx, see the configuration files in the firehol-infrastructure repository.

If you have commit access to the official repositories, your changes will be published automatically once they are pushed.

Updating secrets

To get latest travis tools: sudo gem install travis.

To set up a token: https://github.com/firehol/infrastructure#authentication-token

Prepare:

cd .travis
cp /from/somewhere/travis_rsa .
cp /from/somewhere/read_only_api_key .
tar cvfz secrets.tar travis_rsa read_only_api_key

Encrypt and tidy up:

travis login -g `cat ~/.firehol-github-oauth`
travis encrypt-file secrets.tar
travis logout
rm travis_rsa read_only_api_key secrets.tar
cd ..

Update the decrypt-if-have-key line in travis.yml with the hex part of the openssl key displayed by travis if it has changed, then commit the result:

git add .travis/secrets.tar.enc .travis.yml
git commit