Installing an existing GLAMkit project

The instructions for setting up an existing GLAMkit project are identical to starting a new project, except instead of step 1. ‘Create a new project’ (the ``$ bash <(curl … `` line), just clone your git repository.

Matching a local copy to a server

You may want to replicate a server instance on your development machine in order to replicate reported behaviour for debugging. This is normally a question of matching 1. the Django code, 2. the database and 3. the media. The secondary services should be consistent across environments.

In practice, you normally only need:

  • the latest revision of code you’re working on
  • a copy of the production database
  • not all of the media (just create placeholder media for testing)

Matching the Django code

Travis will tell you the commit hash of the last revision of the branch you wish to match. Checkout this revision to match the server. Running docker-compose run or ./go.sh should update the requirements to match the installed version.

Matching the database

Follow the instructions in Data dumps.

Matching the media

This is a question of rsync-ing the server media with your local folder:

rsync -zrv $HOST:$PATH_TO_MEDIA ./var/media_root

Normally the media for a large website is in the several gigabytes, and isn’t often necessary to store locally in entirety. Instead, we suggest just rsyncing particular files, or replacing them with placeholders.