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===How to become a mirror site?===
===How to become a mirror site?===
If you or your company has some spare bandwidth and would like to be included in mirror.contribs.org, you can use rsync to do something like this:
If you or your company has some spare bandwidth and would like to be included in mirror.contribs.org, become a mirror by following these steps:
====Preparing your system====
--max-delete 1000 distro.ibiblio.org::smeserver/ /home/smeserver/
<ol><li>Create a storage location for mirror
mkdir -p {/path/to/your/data/store/}
</li><li>Create a new user to perform sync<br/>If you are running SME Server you can create the user through the server-manager panel, but you will need to enable bash as the shell for this user.
db accounts setprop ''{user}'' Shell /bin/bash
signal-event user-modify ''{user}''
</li><li>Now it is time to download the ftpsync script and all files it requires:
wget http://contribs.org/ftpsync.tgz
</li><li>Extract the tarball in users directory
tar zxof ftpsync.tgz
</li><li>Append the keys to the authorized_keys file of the user
cat .ssh/pushmirror-*.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys
</li><li>Change the ownership of the directories to the new user
chown -R ''{user}'' bin etc log .ssh ''{/path/to/your/data/store/}''
</li><li>Now we have installed and set things up as is required but we will need to update the configuration file to point to the storage location of the data (TO) in the config file (etc/ftpsync.conf). Use your favorite text editor for it.</li></ol>
====Testing your setup====
<ol><li>Now it is time to perform the initial sync (and test that script does what it needs to)
su - ''{user}'' -s /bin/bash
~/bin/ftpsync
</li><li>Now check heck the logs to see if there are any errors. Since the initial sync will take a lot of time you can best do this in a second terminal window:
cd ~/log
cat rsync-ftpsync.error.0
</li></ol>
====Configuring the web server====
You will need to configure your web server to make the files available to the public.
For that you need to enable the FollowSymLinks option in the apache config file.
If your mirror is hosted on a SME Server 7.x (or higher version), in an ibay, you should issue the following commands after creating the ibay:
db accounts setprop {ibayname} FollowSymLinks enabled
db accounts setprop {ibayname} FollowSymLinks enabled
signal-event ibay-modify {ibayname}
signal-event ibay-modify {ibayname}
====Keeping your mirror up-to-date====
The ftpsync script allows for two sync methods: push or pull.
We prefer you configure your mirror to be setup as a push mirror because:
* Sync only happens when there are changes
* Changes are propagated as close to real-time as possible
* Changes can be staged (sync data first, repodata second)
* Less out of sync mirrors for yum
=====Configuring for push=====
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=====Configuring for pull=====
We prefer you configure your mirror to be setup as a push mirror, but if you can not do so or have other ways for not doing so you can just schedule a cron job to run every 2 hours that does the exact same sync command you do to get the mirror in the first place, you can add a comment like in the example below:
1 */2 * * * ''{user}'' ~/bin/ftpsync
====Advertising your mirror====
After your mirror is synced and working properly the last thing you need to do is let us know by filing a bug report on bugs.contribs.org under the website category or by following {{BugzillaFileBug|product=SME%20web%20site|component=Mirrors|comment=I%20would%20like%20to%20host%20a%20mirror%20for%20contribs.org.%0D%0DName%20of%20site:%0DPrimary%20contact%20(name):%0DPrimary%20contact%20(email):%0DLocation%20(country):%0DBandwidth%20available:%0DSite%20URL%20(for%20releases%20dir):%0D%0DHostname%20(for%20ssh):%0DUsername%20(for%20ssh):%0DPort%20(for%20ssh):|title=<b>this link</b>}}.
Please include the following in the bug report:
* name of site
* primary contact name/email
* location/country
* bandwidth available to mirror
* URL to site (for freshness checks and yum)
* hostname to connect to (for ssh)
* port to connect to (for ssh)
* username to connect with (for ssh)
===Configuration options====
The ftpsync configuration script has a number of options you can configure. You might have already seen some of them when you had to adjust the storage location in the configuration process.
The configuration file is well documented but we will discuss some of the features here.
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