Something that my pelican experience was missing was a little automation that my Unix friends enjoy with makerfiles. I'm sure that there is a windows workaround, or I could just continue to work in WSL for my pelican life.
I do enjoy working in WSL and all the Linux life that brings, but it was starting to become a pain, and I never could figure out how to get lftp working the way that I wanted.
I bought Filezilla Pro CLI
Rather than burning a bunch more hours trying to figure out lftp, or the various built-in ftp clients, I srung for Filezilla Pro. I have used the free version of Filezilla for as long as I can remember, probably since it was a thing on windows, so spending a bit of money to solve the inconvenience I have now and have the functionality to connet to various cloud platforms was a no brainer.
Something that the CLI version has is the ability to do some scripting, so in the batchfile I call the script to update the site on the remote server.
I don't have to include any sensitive information in the script because it shares the site manager with the GUI version.
The scripts
To make everything work cleanly I need two script files, and to manually pipenv shell into the environment.
The Batch File
To start the batchfile looks like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | @echo off cd jeffmackinnon.com-Sourcecode pelican content -o C:\projects\_publish\jeffmackinnon.com -s publishconf.py pelican content -o \\bilbo\web -s publishbilbo.py rem When everything is made it is time to sync with the interwebs. This takes another script for now. "C:\Program Files\FileZilla Pro CLI\fzcli.exe" --mode standalone --script C:\projects\pelican\cliuploadjeff.txt cd c:\projects\pelican |
This batchfile requires me to be in the proper pipenv, but then it just runs, the reason there is two is because I'm strange. I have have my online version and a local NAS version that I typically use for testing things, and yes all my servers are LOTR based.
This batch file does the following:
- Changes the directory to where the site source is located
- Create the html files for the public site
- Create the html files for the local copy
- Call the filezilla script to sync the remote site
- Change the directory back to the main projects file.
The Filezilla Script
To make things "clean" the Filezilla CLI script looks like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | site 0/jeffsite lcd c:/projects/_publish/jeffmackinnon.com sync -d b -e n C:/projects/_publish/jeffmackinnon.com/ / sync -d b -e n -r C:/projects/_publish/jeffmackinnon.com/author/ /author/ sync -d b -e n -r C:/projects/_publish/jeffmackinnon.com/category /category/ sync -d b -e n -r C:/projects/_publish/jeffmackinnon.com/feeds/ /feeds/ sync -d b -e n -r C:/projects/_publish/jeffmackinnon.com/images/ /images/ sync -d b -e n -r C:/projects/_publish/jeffmackinnon.com/pages/ /pages/ sync -d b -e n -r C:/projects/_publish/jeffmackinnon.com/photos/ /photos/ sync -d b -e n -r C:/projects/_publish/jeffmackinnon.com/tag/ /tag/ sync -d b -e n -r C:/projects/_publish/jeffmackinnon.com/theme/ /theme/ sync -d b -e n -r C:/projects/_publish/jeffmackinnon.com/videos/ /videos/ exit |
If I only had the pelican based site on this server, I could simply use sync -d b -e n C:/projects/_publish/jeffmackinnon.com/ /, but since I have a lot of different sub-directories, etc, I needed to make it a bit longer.
So to go through everything that this does:
- The first line connects to the bookmarked Filezilla jeffsite
- lcd changes the local directory to where the files to be published is located.
- The first sync line non-recursively syncs the root folder.
- The remaining sync lines recursively syncs the pelican created folders
- And finally I disconnect and exit from Filezilla CLI (fzcli).
Closing
I have only used this a couple times and haven't run into any issues. Some of the things that I would like to add to these scripts are logfiles and include some error catching.
I also want to figure out how to call a pipenv shell within a batch file and then continue, or call another batch file.
There are no comments here right now, so if you have requests/suggestions check me out on twitter.
This post is part 6 of the "How I Pelican" series:
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