static-sites.md

title: How make website changes

How to change the website

The Tor website is hosted at several computers for redundancy, and these computers are together called "the www rotation". The www rotation serves a variety of other websites too, like extra.tp.o, dist.tp.o, and more.

How do you edit one of these websites? Let's say you want to edit extra.

• First you ssh in to staticiforme (using an ssh jump host if needed)

• Then you make your edits as desired to /srv/extra-master.torproject.org/htdocs/

• When you're ready, you run this command to sync your changes to the www rotation:

    sudo -u mirroradm static-update-component extra.torproject.org

Example: You want to copy image.png from your Desktop to your blog post indexed as 2017-01-01-new-blog-post:

scp /home/user/Desktop/image.png staticiforme.torproject.org:/srv/extra-master.torproject.org/htdocs/blog/2017-01-01-new-blog-post/
ssh staticiforme.torproject.org sudo -u mirroradm static-update-component extra.torproject.org

Which sites are static?

The complete list of websites served by the www rotation is not easy to figure out, because we move some of the static sites around from time to time. But you can learn which websites are considered "static", i.e. you can use the above steps to edit them, via:

ssh staticiforme cat /etc/static-components.conf

How does this work?

If you're a sysadmin and wondering how that stuff work or do anything back there, look at howto/static-component.