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Our server configurations.

Requirements

• Debian Stretch or newer on nodes
• Ansible 2.2 or newer on local machine
• CloudFlare or any other DNS provider supported by Lexicon

Usage

1. Run make scaffold to generate the shared and private directories
   • The shared directory is meant to be shared with your group, and the private directory is, well, private.
2. Edit configurations in shared
   • You will need to edit the domain names in playbooks/main.yml as well if you aren't deploying to LUG@UCI servers
3. Authorize private/ansible.key.pub on your nodes
4. Run make deploy and hope things don't break
5. Share the shared directory after verifying that everything works

It's important that everyone's shared directory is up-to-date. An alternative to sharing configurations is to deploy with a central interface (e.g. Semaphore).

To force a rebuild of the MediaWiki database, delete the database and LocalSettings.php, then run Ansible again.