genesis-wordpress

!!! End Of Life Notice !!!

Aside from occasional bug fixes or security patches, Genesis is no longer actively supported.

Its successor, Evolution, has a similar feature set, as well as a built-in importer for existing Wordpress projects.

!!! Repository Move Notice !!!

This project was recently moved across organizations in github. In order to continue using it, you'll have to update the generator:

npm update generator-genesis-wordpress -g

Genesis WordPress

Rapidly create, develop, & deploy WordPress across multiple environments.

Features

• Generate a functional WordPress site + server
• First-class local development
• Independently stage features for review
• Use production data when developing
• High-performance, zero-configuration caching out of the box
• Easily monitor remote server errors
• Instant, secure SSH access
• Automated server provisioning
• Consistent, reliable environments

Installation

Ensure you have the latest versions of [NodeJS][9] v0.10, Vagrant v1.6.*, & VirtualBox v.4.2.*.

Scaffolding & Development

Install [Yeoman][2] v1, [Bower][6] v1.3.3+, [Genesis WordPress Generator][1], & [Vagrant Host Manager][4]:

$ npm install -g yo bower generator-genesis-wordpress
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager

If you get EMFILE issues, try running: $ ulimit -n 4096.

(You can check your versions by running node --version, npm --version, etc.)

Deployment

Install [Capistrano v2.15.*][5] via [Bundler][1] & [Ansible][7]:

$ sudo bundle install
$ sudo easy_install pip
$ sudo pip install ansible

Getting Started

Step 1 – Creating or Upgrading a Site

Use the [Genesis WordPress Generator][1] for scaffolding.

Step 2 – Working Locally

First, ensure you're using the latest version of [Genesis WordPress][0] with [Bower][6]:

$ bower update

Next, use [Vagrant][3] to create & provision your local environment:

$ vagrant up

Now open http://local.mysite.com (or whatever your site's domain name is)!

If the site doesn't load for you, you may have to manually provision your local machine:

$ vagrant provision

Or, update your local /etc/hosts with [Vagrant Host Manager][4]:

$ vagrant hostmanager

Finally, if things worked while you were at the office but broke when you got home, you probably need to just get Vagrant a new IP address:

$ vagrant reload

Step 3 – Wrapping Up

When you're done working on your site, suspend the VM to save on CPU & memory:

$ vagrant suspend

You can destroy the VM entirely (while keeping your local files) to save on disk space:

$ vagrant destroy

Deployment

First, ensure your project on Github can be accessed by remote servers. To do this, access the project's Settings -> Deploy Keys in Github and add provisioning/files/ssh/id_rsa.pub.

Next, assuming the server has been provisioned, deploy your code on Github:

$ bundle exec cap production deploy

The latest code is now live:

> http://production.mysite.com/

If you deploy to staging, the name of the current branch (e.g. my-feature) is deployed:

> http://my-feature.staging.mysite.com/

In the rare event the changes weren't supposed to go live, you can rollback to the previous release:

$ bundle exec cap production deploy:rollback

Note that deployments use the project's Github repository as the source, not your local machine!

Syncing Files/Database

From Local to Remote

Suppose you have just provisioned & deployed to a new server, but the site obviously won't work without a database or uploaded images.

You can overwrite the remote database with your local VM's:

$ bundle exec cap production genesis:up:db

You can sync your local files to the remote filesystem:

$ bundle exec cap production genesis:up:files

Or, you can perform both actions together:

$ bundle exec cap production genesis:up

Once a site is live, you rarely need to sync anything up to the remote server. If anything, you usually sync changes down.

In the rare case you need to destructively sync files to the remote server (meaning, delete files on remote that don't exist locally), there is a special use command:

$ bundle exec cap production genesis:up:mirror

From Remote to Local

Suppose you have a live site that you need to work on locally. Like the previous section, you can sync down the database, the files (e.g. uploaded images), or both:

$ bundle exec cap production genesis:down:db
$ bundle exec cap production genesis:down:files
$ bundle exec cap production genesis:down

Provisioning

The following environments are expected to exist and resolve via DNS to simplify deployment & provisioning:

• local (e.g. http://local.mysite.com)
• staging (e.g. http://staging.mysite.com/, http://my-feature.staging.mysite.com/)
• production (e.g. http://production.mysite.com/, http://www.mysite.com/, http://mysite.com/)

If you're deploying to a new machine (e.g. production.mysite.com), you first need to provision it:

$ bundle exec cap production genesis:provision

If there is an error, you may be prompted to re-run the command with an explicit username/password:

$ bundle exec cap production genesis:provision -S user=myuser -S password=mypassword

From that point on, tasks will use a private key (provisioning/files/ssh/id_rsa).

In the event you already have a live site, you can modify the settings in deployment/stages/old.rb to migrate the old server to a new server:

# Start the local VM
$ vagrant up

# Provision the new server
$ bundle exec cap production provision
$ bundle exec cap production deploy

# Download the old site to local
$ bundle exec cap old genesis:down

# Upload the old site to production
$ bundle exec cap production genesis:up

Now you can switch DNS for http://www.mysite.com/ to point to http://production.mysite.com/'s IP!

Genesis Tasks

Most of the functionality regarding remote servers are handled by custom [Capistrano][5] tasks, which you can see by running:

$ bundle exec cap -T genesis
cap genesis:down        # Downloads both remote database & syncs remote files into Vagrant
cap genesis:down:db     # Downloads remote database into Vagrant
cap genesis:down:files  # Downloads remote files to Vagrant
cap genesis:logs        # Tail Apache error logs
cap genesis:permissions # Fix permissions
cap genesis:provision   # Runs project provisioning script on server
cap genesis:restart     # Restart Apache + Varnish
cap genesis:ssh         # SSH into machine
cap genesis:start       # Start Apache + Varnish
cap genesis:stop        # Stop Apache + Varnish
cap genesis:up          # Uploads Vagrant database & local files into production
cap genesis:up:db       # Uploads Vagrant database into remote
cap genesis:up:files    # Uploads local project files to remote
cap genesis:up:mirror   # **DESTRUCTIVELY** overrides files on remote
cap genesis:teardown    # Remove any existing remote deployment files; counterpart to cap's built-in deploy:setup

Now run any one of those commands against an environemnt:

$ bundle exec cap local genesis:restart

Troubleshooting

SSH - Prompting for a password

If you're seeing this:

$ bundle exec cap staging genesis:ssh
[email protected]'s password:

Then the deploy user's ssh keys on your remote server do not match the keys in your local repository.

You should first ensure that your local repository is up to date, thereby ensuring you are using the latest versioned ssh keys.

$ git checkout master
$ git pull origin master
$ bundle exec cap staging genesis:ssh

If the problem persists, this means that the keys on your remote server are out of date or otherwise incorrect, and you must re-provision by specifying a username and password:

$ bundle exec cap staging genesis:provision -S user=userWithRootOrSudoAccess -S password=usersHopefullyStrongPassword

SSH - Host key mismatch

If you're seeing this:

$ bundle exec cap staging genesis:ssh
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
d3:4d:b4:4f:d3:4d:b4:4f:d3:4d:b4:4f:d3:4d:b4:4f.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in ~/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending RSA key in ~/.ssh/known_hosts:68
RSA host key for staging.example.com has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.

Then you have at least one existing entry in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file (indicated, in the example above, to be on line 68), with a different key than the server is returning.

You can search for all line(s) matching the server name and/or ip address using grep:

$ cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | grep -n "staging.example.com"
68:staging.example.com,192.168.1.42 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaCd34db33f...

Now, remove those lines from said file, using your text editor of choice.

SSH - Permission denied (publickey)

If you're seeing this:

    servers: ["production.yourwebsite.com"]
    [production.yourwebsite.com] executing command
 ** [production.yourwebsite.com :: out] Permission denied (publickey).
 ** [production.yourwebsite.com :: out] fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Then you probably need to add the SSH keys to your GitHub repo. Open provisioning/files/ssh/id_rsa.pub and copy/paste the entire contents (the ssh-rsa key) to your repo by visiting Settings > Deploy Keys > Add deploy key.

For more help on this, refer to the GitHub Docs.

SSH - SSH Authentication Failed!

If you're seeing this:

SSH authentication failed! This is typically caused by the public/private
keypair for the SSH user not being properly set on the guest VM. Please
verify that the guest VM is setup with the proper public key, and that
the private key path for Vagrant is setup properly as well.

Then you're probably missing the Vagrant Public Key in your authorized_keys. To add it run: curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mitchellh/vagrant/master/keys/vagrant.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Vagrant - Error While Executing VBoxManage

If you're seeing this:

There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant
for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.

Command: ["hostonlyif", "create"]

The you'll need to restart VirtualBox with:

sudo /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox/VirtualBox restart

Vagrant - Error changing hostname

If you're seeing this:

==> local: Setting hostname...
Vagrant attempted to execute the capability 'change_host_name'
on the detect guest OS 'linux', but the guest doesn't
support that capability. This capability is required for your
configuration of Vagrant. Please either reconfigure Vagrant to
avoid this capability or fix the issue by creating the capability.

You've hit a known issue with vagrant 1.8.5 (the latest version at the time of this writing). You will need to [patch vagrant as described here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3863