How to build the web site ========================= You need hugo to build the website. On Debian, install it from the 'hugo' package: # apt install hugo Furthermore, you need to checkout the submodules: website-content $ git submodule init website-content $ git submodule update Now you can build the site using 'make', it will be put into 'public'. 'make server' will launch a local server that is useful while editing the web site. Server setup ------------ On the server, the website is built using gitlab's ci runner, see `.gitlab-ci.yml`. To deploy the site, the ci job rsyncs it to the host. For this purpose, a restricted user is created: # adduser --system --home /var/www/www-data-rsync --shell /bin/sh --disabled-password --ingroup www-data www-data-rsync Create a key and restrict it to invoke the restricted-rsync script: # mkdir /var/www/www-data-rsync/.ssh # chmod 700 /var/www/www-data-rsync/.ssh # ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C 'Used for website deployment.' -f www-data-rsync-id_ed25519 # echo 'command="/usr/local/bin/rrsync /var/www/html --safe-links",no-agent-forwarding,no-port-forwarding,no-pty,no-user-rc,no-X11-forwarding ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIOBBpthbSQ3HgOkhoBwsrZCA9VMX7hRftB5t6LePqtr3 Used for website deployment.' > /var/www/www-data-rsync/.ssh/authorized_keys # chmod 400 /var/www/www-data-rsync/.ssh/authorized_keys # chown -R www-data-rsync:www-data /var/www/www-data-rsync/.ssh Copy the restricted-rsync script from the docs and make it executable: # cp /usr/share/doc/rsync/scripts/rrsync /usr/local/bin/ # chmod +x /usr/local/bin/rrsync Finally, allow www-data-rsync to write to the document root: # chown root:www-data /var/www/html # chmod g+w /var/www/html The last bit is to supply the generated secret to gitlab's ci runner via RSYNC_TARGET_SECRET_KEY. Other information that needs to be provided are RSYNC_TARGET_HOST, RSYNC_TARGET_PORT, RSYNC_TARGET_HOST_KEY, and RSYNC_TARGET_USER.