How to become a resource repository mirror

Requirements

 * Apache 2
 * mod_rewrite
 * ability to edit Apache vhost config
 * mod_php 4+
 * rsync
 * One of:
 * cron
 * ssh account

Mirror Number
Ask Luke for a mirror number. Be sure to include your machine's IP address(es). References to this mirror number below are in English. For example, 'one' and 'two'.

Sync Document Root
You probably don't want to run this as root: mkdir -p /var/www/armagetron/resource rsync --delete -a rsync://master.resource.aa.dashjr.org/armagetron-resource/ /var/www/armagetron/resource/

Setup Apache
Add to your vhost configuration:  ServerName mirror-number.resource.aa.dashjr.org ServerAlias resource.armagetronad.net *.resource.armagetronad.net resource.aa.dashjr.org *.resource.aa.dashjr.org ServerPath / DocumentRoot /var/www/armagetron/resource/htdocs UseCanonicalName On   AllowOverride All Options FollowSymLinks Order allow,deny Allow from all 

With Gentoo, this should be

After setting up apache, you need to reload your configuration :)

Cron
Put in a crontab that gets run daily or hourly (with non-root permissions): rsync --delete -a rsync://master.resource.aa.dashjr.org/armagetron-resource/ /var/www/armagetron/resource You may wish to append  so you don't get logs every time.

Using this method, your server will redirect to the master mirror when it doesn't have a resource.

Armabot
Armabot is our bot that handles IRC and also updates things when there are changes.

Add to your SSH account's  file: command="rsync --delete -a rsync://master.resource.aa.dashjr.org/armagetron-resource/ /var/www/armagetron/resource" ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAtW5agPIL23MDpL6zFhJnLumv0pQrpIz7QkTlBbZ60KTVN0xITrVB7cf/Uphx7+WFYSde42Sf666jomDRu9ZwkBauGQjvKH7BlWRuLnFazdSd3X4jSEhAl38pQI/dV7QhUP0lBpIGv25h40S6YG1QwxQII4+BkbzoPIJs4RM4Pmn5piTN7OHdT/S8XxT/oVPiU1WrD08ewjxS7fawfQ31NKcAApDl5IFUkHY0+Zqzk0QACuWRRGTSa8h051JUWAnkEfNEg75PIstA6sgzXFqVcJLD4Mvk8sKkBqITniX8btxzW9kSfo/bzdgfx6C8X2r2ES/cY1ttTnp4Gb32GzuvXw== supybot@butler

Now, contact wrtlprnft to add a notifier for resource additions.

Using this method, you should always have all the latest resources.

Activate Mirror
Inform Luke that you're done. He'll check your mirror to make sure it's sane and put it in the round-robin.