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This project is a custom express application that uses pandoc to render latex/markdown files as HTML pages. This site has its very own admin portal to manage posts and downloads.
Dependencies
- mysql
- node + npm
- pandoc
- nxinx (for https)
Running
Installing the node-dependencies is as easy as running the npn install command:
npm install
All configurations are currentl found in the config.json file. In this file you specify things like port, sql connection, etc.
There is a provided bash script that will run the application
chmod +x run.sh
./run.sh
For deployment I used a Nginx proxy to expose the node application running on port 8000 to port 80. This proxy is necessary because you can't run a node application as port 80 unless you are root, which would be a security vulnerability.
Running with Docker
To simplify development and deployment you can run the entire node blog and mysql server from docker using docker-compose.
docker-compose up
or
docker-compose up db
docker-compose up blog
To Access mysql server of docker daemon for maintenence. Note: you need to configure username and password in docker-compose.yml and config.json.
mysql --port=3306 --host=127.0.0.1 -u root --password=password
Legal
Unless otherwise stated, everything in this repository can be assumed to fall under these two licenses depending on what type of file it is.
Code, scripts
All code, scripts, or other technical / programmatic items in this repo are assumed fall under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 unless otherwise stated.
Guides, articles, posts, misc. content
All guides, scripts, posts, or otherwise non-programmatic content in this repo is assumed to fall under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International unless otherwise stated.
Node Dependencies
- express
- express-session
- mysql
- sanitizer
- promise
- highlight
- crypto
- remarkable
- markdown
- highlight.js
- compression
- memory-cache --save
- request
- whiskers
- node-pandoc
Color scheme
The color scheme has been changing a lot recently.
current: top 2C3E50 secondary 498FBE highlight:00F0E1, 88BAFF
Image Optimization
Stuff for automated image compression
apt-get install jpegoptim
apt-get install optipng
./optimizeImages.sh
NGINX Configuration
#jrtechs.net.conf
server
{
listen 80;
server_name www.jrtechs.net jrtechs.net;
# redirect http requests to https
return 301 https://jrtechs.net$request_uri;
}
server
{
listen 443 ssl http2;
server_name jrtechs.net;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/jrtechs.net/cert.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/jrtechs.net/privkey.pem;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
}
}
Projects Sites
As I develop more projects I would like an easy way to add and host them on my website without having to create another sub-domain and generate more ssl certs. I simply want the project site to be accessible under https://jrtechs.net/project_name.
State Diagram of Plan
DB Backup and Restore
This will dump everything in the database to a plain text file. A base SQL schema can be found in docs//sqlConfig.md
sudo mysqldump -u [user] -p [database_name] > [filename].sql
This will take a database dump and load it into a active mysql instance. Note: the database (can be empty) must already exist.
sudo mysql -u [user] -p [database_name] < [filename].sql