Spitfires Soccer Club

Spitfires WebGrunt Info

SPITFIRES NEW WEB-GRUNT INFO

Updated Feb 2009

Job Description

Keep the website up to date.
- You should be familiar with html. Or be willing to learn about it: check out the w3schools site. Do not rely on Microsoft web page editing tools; they will frequently generate pages which will not display properly in other browsers.
- Have a look at any of the README files on the website; you may need their info! Use the command "find . -name \*README\* -ls" to locate them.
You might be asked if you can
- maintain the database software. There is an overview of the code and a user guide. Plus, there are lots of comments in the code itself. And you can always ask the previous coders.
- update the Benefit Cup information -- see online_form_update_README.txt. For more complicated Benefit Cup software stuff, I've always asked Rue.

Website Access: Power Users Linux/Unix Users Windows Users

Website Access: Basic Information for Power Users

The website:

host = spitfiressoccer.net
userid = wirthp
main directory = spitfiressoccer.net
The server runs linux. Use scp to transfer files, ssh to log in and the regular unix commands to navigate. Vi, vim and emacs are all available for editing files.

The web hosting company:
- dreamhost login screen
- userid for dreamhost.com = patrick.wirth@gmail.com
- As WebGrunt, I've never needed to access dreamhost.
The password for both: ask the old WebGrunt or Guru.

Website Access: Details for Linux/Unix Users

To login to the website:
- now you are in the Spitfires home directory with all the web files
- cd around, vim/emacs files and finally
- exit
To copy files:
- Warning scp will overwrite files. It will NOT ask first.
- to the website:
  - scp <your file's location><filename> wirthp@spitfiressoccer.net:<file location on the website>
  - or, to simplify, cd to where your file is and
  - scp <filename> wirthp@spitfiressoccer.net:<file location on the website>
  - e.g. scp myclubfile.html wirthp@spitfiressoccer.net:spitfiressoccer.net/club/
- from the website:
  - cd to where you want the file to be put in your system and
  - scp wirthp@spitfiressoccer.net:<file location on the website><filename> .
  - e.g. scp wirthp@spitfiressoccer.net:spitfiressoccer.net/club/webclubfile.html .
- Your shell will interpret asterisks and regular expressions as usual. If you want those expressions passed to the website, put them inside single quotes. For example:
  - copy all the html files in your current directory to Spitfires' info directory:
  - scp *.html wirthp@spitfiressoccer.net:spitfiressoccer.net/info/
  - copy all the Spitfires' FAQ files to your current directory
  - scp wirthp@spitfiressoccer.net:spitfiressoccer.net/club/'*'FAQ.html .

Website Access: Details for Windows Users

Disclaimer: I am not a Windows user. I tested the following on an XP machine and it should work on any of 95, 98, ME, NT or 2000, but I have no idea about Vista or later releases. Your version of Windows may have secure shell and secure copy clients. If so, use those.

Get free ssh and scp clients from here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
- Go to the download page .
- Click on putty.exe and save it to your desktop (takes less than 1 sec)
- Click on pscp.exe and save it to your desktop (again takes no time)
To login to the website:
- Double-click on your desktop putty.exe
- enter the hostname: spitfiressoccer.net
- the defaults port=22 and connection=SSH are correct
- click Open
- click Yes in the pop-up window which blathers on about unrecognised keys
- Voila, a window opens
- login as wirthp
- get the password from the previous WebGrunt
- cd spitfiressoccer.net
- now you are in the Spitfires home directory with all the web files
- use Unix commands to move around and manipulate the files.
- Edit files with vim or emacs, or, once you've found the file you want, you can always copy it onto your machine, manipulate it there and copy it back.
- exit
To copy files:
- For this example, use Notepad (or whatever) to create a one-line test file called tt.txt
- Save it on your desktop
- With XP, goto the Start Menu -> programs -> accessories -> command prompt
- With Win95,98,ME, find the MS-DOS Prompt somewhere in Programs
- In the command/MS-DOS window, cd to the Desktop. (Use dir to help you figure out where you are initially)
- Now you can actually copy files to the website:
- pscp <filename> wirthp@spitfiressoccer.net:<file location on the website>
- pscp tt.txt wirthp@spitfiressoccer.net:spitfiressoccer.net/info/
- Use your putty.exe session to check that tt.txt arrived
- I put a file, test.txt in the spitfires directory so you can test the other copy direction
- pscp wirthp@spitfiressoccer.net:spitfiressoccer.net/test.txt .
- You should see the file show up on your Desktop.

Overview of Spitfires' home directory and web files

Directory	Contents
spitfiressoccer.net	index.htm -- the home page -- and all the following directories:
index_files	all the main pages which are shown in the left-hand frame: Club, Team, Events, BenefitCup, Links
BC	Benefit Cup files
club	club files (like this FAQ)
info	most of the pages that change yearly, like the team pages, the AGM info pages, etc.
reg	all the database executables and files
archive	old team pages and yearly files, old versions of the database
gif and image	pictures, images
data and cgi-bin	looks like Benefit Cup stuff: ask the WebGuru

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Basic Unix commands

Command	Function
cd	change directory, i.e. goto the directory specified
cd ..	go back up to the directory above
ls	list the files
rm filename	remove (delete) the file. This is permanant. You are warned.
mv filename tohere	move file
cp filename tohere	copy file
mkdir directoryname	make a directory
rmdir directoryname	remove a directory
exit	leave secure shell

For example, try this and see what you get:

cd spitfiressoccer.net/archive
ls
mkdir 2100
ls
cd ..
ls info
cp info/page*.htm archive/2100/
cd archive/2100
ls
rm page*.htm
ls
cd ..
rmdir 2100
ls
exit

Note a typing shortcut: type part of a filename or directory name and then the tab key
For example, instead of "cd spitfiressoccer.net", type "cd sp<tab> Try it.

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