_jaws

Jekyll deployment scripts for AWS (S3 and CloudFront)

Disclaimer: this project is totally unrelated to servant-app/JAWS (which is a cool project that you should definitely check out if you're interested in static sites and AWS). This project is also unmaintained and unused by me now.

_jaws

Awesome Jekyll deployment scripts for AWS (S3 and CloudFront). Works with any other static site too.

_jaws:

minifies HTML, JavaScript and CSS
gzips assets and includes appropriate headers
allows images, CSS, and JS to be served from a different domain name
syncs your site to an S3 bucket
invalidates changed files in CloudFront

all with a single command.

Dependencies

_jaws probably only works on Mac OS X at the moment (and maybe BSD variants) due to some of the shell commands used. This is a high priorty issue to fix.

The only hard dependencies are s3cmd and Java (and some other things that you're almost guaranteed to have like gzip and bash).

You can install zopfli for better compression. _jaws uses gzip by default.

_jaws is configured to use Pygments by default for syntax highlighting, but you can easily configure it not to use this.

Installation

From your Jekyll project's root directory:

git clone [email protected]:pauljz/_jaws.git
cp _jaws/config.sample.sh _jaws/config.sh

Then edit your config.sh. By default the only things you need to change are JAWS_BUCKET, JAWS_STATICCDN, and JAWS_IMAGECDN.

Additional configuration options are documented in config.sh.

You'll also need to set up S3 and CloudFront correctly. I will have a walkthrough for setting up S3 and CloudFront for Jekyll correctly on my blog shortly.

If this is your first time using s3cmd, you'll need to run s3cmd --configure to get started.

Usage

There are 3 scripts to use directly:

`_jaws/publish.sh`	Normal use.
`_jaws/publish-invalidate.sh`	Same as `publish.sh`, except it also invalidates your cache in CloudFront. Worth using if you've made substantial changes and/or need things to go live quickly.
`_jaws/publish-delete.sh`	Same as `publish-invalidate.sh`, except it also deletes files not in your local copy of the site. Use if you have removed blog posts, compromising photos, etc.

Usage with other static sites

There's nothing that requires _jaws to be used with Jekyll. Any static site can be published to AWS using these scripts with some basic configuration.

Change the JAWS_GENERATE configuration option to whatever generates your static site. If it's literally just flat files, your configuration should look something like:

JAWS_GENERATE="rm -rf _site && cp -R yourSite _site"

Legal

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