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diff --git a/src/_posts/2021-01-23-goodbye-github-pages.md b/src/_posts/2021-01-23-goodbye-github-pages.md index 7f19ec7..e640c46 100644 --- a/src/_posts/2021-01-23-goodbye-github-pages.md +++ b/src/_posts/2021-01-23-goodbye-github-pages.md @@ -191,10 +191,11 @@ which I'm not prepared to do yet. So for now I've done something janky. If you look at the `Makefile` above you'll notice the `install` target. What that target does is to install the static blog files to my nix profile, which -exists at `~/.nix-profile`. nix allows any package to be installed to a profile -in this way. All packages within a profile are independent and can be added, -updated, and removed atomically. By installing the built blog package to my -profile I make it available at `~/.nix-profile/var/www/blog.mediocregopher.com`. +exists at `$HOME/.nix-profile`. nix allows any package to be installed to a +profile in this way. All packages within a profile are independent and can be +added, updated, and removed atomically. By installing the built blog package to +my profile I make it available at +`$HOME/.nix-profile/var/www/blog.mediocregopher.com`. So to serve those files via nginx all I need to do is add a read-only volume to the container... @@ -230,6 +231,11 @@ This will remove any existing `result`, regenerate the site (with the new post) under a new symlink, and install/update that newer package to my nix profile, overwriting the previous package which was there. +EDIT: apparently this isn't quite true. Because `$HOME/.nix-profile` is a +symlink docker doesn't handle the case of that symlink being updated correctly, +so I also have to do `docker restart nginx` for changes to be reflected in +nginx. + And that's it! Nix is a cool tool that I'm still getting the hang of, but hopefully this post might be useful to anyone else thinking of self-hosting their site. |