rufus-web

Description

This is the content repository for the https://rufus.ie homepage.

Because, despite repeated pleas, GitHub does not care about multilingual support when hosting web pages using their recommended tools, we have to manually generate our own localized pages from PHP content and gettext.

The way it works is as follows:

1. index.php is edited to reflect the latest updates we want visitors to see.
2. This PHP content uploaded to an Apache+PHP+gettext server, along with the localization files.
3. This server is then queried through a bash script _refresh.sh to generate the static content (the various index.html in the subdirectories), which is then uploaded and deployed to the GitHub, as static pages, and served from https://rufus.ie.

Deploying and testing your own local site

While we use a real local Linux server for our internal PHP deployments, if you have Docker installed (and can use Docker commandline), you should be able to replicate our intermediate PHP server by issuing the following Docker commands:

cd <directory where you cloned this repo>
docker build -t rufus-web .
docker run -p 8080:80 rufus-web

Then, by accessing http://localhost:8080 you should see the original localized website.

If you have a bash compatible shell installed, you should also be able to generate the static localized pages, by changing url to url=localhost:8080 in the _refresh.sh script, and then invoking ./_refresh.sh.