gitit

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          gitit
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $time
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $time
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start or stop Gitit daemon
# Description:       Start or stop Gitit daemon
### END INIT INFO

set -e

GITIT_USER="gitit"
GITIT_HOME="/home/${GITIT_USER}/data"
GITIT="/home/${GITIT_USER}/.local/bin/gitit"

case "$1" in
  start)
    su -c "cd ${GITIT_HOME} && ${GITIT} -f my.conf &" $GITIT_USER
    ;;
  stop)
    killall gitit
    ;;
  *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}" >&2; exit 1 ;;
esac

exit 0

gitit-installation.md

Installation of Gitit on Ubuntu 14.04 x64

• URL: Gitit
• Author: Dominic Imhof

Add Swap

• Follow instructions at DigitalOcean

Set timezone

• echo Europe/Zurich > /etc/timezone && dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Upgrade packages

• apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y

Customize ssh config

• sed -i 's/#PasswordAuthentication yes/PasswordAuthentication no/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
• sed -i 's/AcceptEnv LANG LC_*/#AcceptEnv LANG LC_*/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
• service ssh restart

Configure ufw

• ufw default deny incoming
• ufw allow ssh
• ufw allow http
• ufw allow https
• ufw enable

Install requirements

• apt-get install -y git apache2 libtinfo-dev

Add user for Gitit

• useradd -m gitit && sudo su - gitit

Install Haskell Stack

• Follow instructions at GitHub
• stack setup

## Install Gitit

• Follow instructions at GitHub
• Checkout right version git fetch origin refs/tags/0.12.0.1:refs/tags/0.12.0.1 && git checkout 0.12.0.1

Add Gitit-Service

• Copy gitit file to /etc/init.d
• chmod +x /etc/init.d/gitit
• update-rc.d gitit defaults