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Deploying the site

Quickly, how do i do it?!

To restart the server and deploy the latest, just ssh into libgdx.badlogicgames.com, type screen -r, type CTRL+C, type start.sh. That's it.

See the screen reference on how to use screen.

I want to know more!

The site is composed of two things: a REST-like server written in Dropwizard and a simple web frontend. All of that is deployed to libgdx.badlogicgames.com, in /opt/libgdx-site to which this repo is cloned. Once cloned, we run this:

git pull
cd src/main/webapp
./build.sh
cd ../../..
mvn clean package
cp -r src/main/webapp/* /usr/share/nginx/html/
java -jar target/libgdx-site-jar-with-dependencies.jar

build.sh compiles the web frontend sources in src/main/webapp/src. These are then copied to /usr/share/nginx/html from which the frontend of the website is served. Next we compiled the backend via maven and start it up as a fat jar. It's responsible for the gallery of the website. Gallery submissions are stored to /opt/gamedb, one file per entry (yes it's a flat file storage cause i'm lazy :D)

All requests from the frontend to the backend are port forwarded by nginx (see /etc/nginx/sites-available/default):

location /libgdx-site/ {
                proxy_pass  http://127.0.0.1:7777;
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        }

The backend is listening on port 7777, nginx will forward any requests to libgdx.badlogicgames.com/libgdx-site/ to that port, dropping the libgdx-site/ path segment.