dCache org web page

The static pages based on Hugo

Bootstrap the site

Clone repo into a local directory:

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/dCache/www-dcache-org.git
$ cd www-dcache-org

Working with Hugo

First of all you need the hugo binary from the project release page.

Start the local server:

$ hugo server -D

The -D flags tells hugo to render draft pages as well. To generate static pages in the web server root directory:

$ hugo -d </path/to/root/dir>

or

$ hugo --cleanDestinationDir -b https://dcache.org/ -d /var/www/htdocs

Adding new page

To add a new page/post use hugo new command:

For post:

$ hugo new post/workshop.md

or for a page

$ hugo new apage.md

The new elements are created relative to content directory. Special front matter can be used to control page/post behavior. For posts:

• tags
• categories

Both are arrays of strings that can be used later to identify posts. Example:

---
title: "Workshop"
date: 2020-05-31T18:11:34+02:00
draft: false
tags: ["workshop"]
categories: ["workshop"]
---

Note: posts are created with front matter draft test to true. To make posts visible is have to be update to false or start hugo with flag --buildDrafts to build site with draft posts.

The regular pages have:

• menu
• weight

that tells hugo to include page into top menu and control the position. The weight is an increasing number and controls the position from left-to-right. Example:

---
title: "Main"
menu: main
weight: 1
---

Remove date front matter from the regular pages to avoid extra header with timestamp.

Adding release

To add a new release run:

$ hugo new release/release-6.1.4.md

or create the corresponding file in content/release/ directory. The release must have the following front matters defined:

• version - the version number
• url_base
• packages

For example:

---
title: "Release 6.1.4"
date: 2020-06-02T00:17:15+02:00
draft: true
package: dCache
version: "6.1.4"
url_base: "https://www.dcache.org/downloads/1.9/repo"
notes: "https://www.dcache.org/downloads/1.9/release-notes-6.1.shtml"
packages:
- type: "rpm"
  filename: "dcache-6.1.4-1.noarch.rpm"
  checksum: "772408613df65e8d353a51fe8aa913e9"
- type: "deb"
  filename: "dcache_6.1.4-1_all.deb"
  checksum: "0fb637f7dcd158bfd92dcd9b9c56a1e6"
- type: "tgz"
  filename: "dcache-6.1.4.tar.gz"
  checksum: "145f1d9b578adb508eefe8d64a55fadc"
---

The download url constructed as:

${url_base}/$SERIES/${filename}

Where SERIES is derived from the version number.

Adding Documentation article

To add new documentation article, simply add a new file into documentation folder, like:

hugo new documentation/zone-setup.md

A permanent, top level info can go into documentation/_index.md

Page template and layout

The dCache pages use Mainroad template. The template ins enabled as submodule. To override template, copy desired file from the template directory into the same location in the project. For example, to customize the behavior of logo.html

$ cp themes/Mainroad/layouts/partials/logo.html layouts/partials/logo.html

The promotion frame

The middle of the main page has a promotion section that is always on top of the news feed. The content of the promotion is taken from _index.md file.

Custom css

The look and feel of the pages can be adjusted by css located in static/css/custom.css file.