Programming

Today, to both see if it could be done and to make dealing with all my source code easier, I setup a set of git repositories that automatically publish to IPFS when a “git push origin” is run.

First, I setup the file structure to keep things organized.

./publish
./public/
./public/ipfs-auto-repo.git
./public/ipfs-scanner.git
#    et cetera

To initialize the repo being published, I did the following.

git init
cd public/ipfs-auto-repo.git
git init --bare
vim hooks/post-update

This was then entered into post-update:

I found why the scanner was only producing two pages: HTTP 301 Redirect.

If you look at the Release Notes for v0.5.0 of IPFS, you will find a section labeled Subdomain Gateway that details a feature where the HTTP gateway will generate a redirect to a subdomain when accessing /ipfs/$HASH and /ipns/$HASH using localhost, but not when using 127.0.0.1. My code was checking for a status code of 202 and treating everything else as a failure. Change the domain from ’localhost’ to ‘127.0.0.1’ and it started handling fetched pages correct.