notes.txt

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-automatic-deployment-with-git-with-a-vps
use the git --bar system to update the beta and production website
mkdir mesoscope_beta.git;cd mesoscope_beta.git; git init --bare;
on mgl2 there is two bar repo in /usr/local/repos/ or /usr/local and they are hook to the www projects/mesoscope and projects/mesoscopebeta
on push live master and push beta master change are automatically pass
here is the hoook as a shell script (e.g. repo/hooks/post-receive):
#!/bin/sh
#checkout the repo
git --work-tree=/usr/local/www/projects/mesoscopebeta --git-dir=/usr/local/repo/mesoscope_beta.git checkout -f
#change python header to be executable on mgl2, make executable
ex -c ':1d' -c ':wq' /usr/local/www/projects/mesoscopebeta/cgi-bin/cellpack_db_dev.cgi
chmod +x /usr/local/www/projects/mesoscopebeta/cgi-bin/cellpack_db_dev.cgi
ex -c ':1d' -c ':wq' /usr/local/www/projects/mesoscopebeta/cgi-bin/get_geom_dev.cgi

alternative for the hook can be found here :
https://gist.github.com/noelboss/3fe13927025b89757f8fb12e9066f2fa
on the local git clone working copy simply add the two remote
git clone orca:/mnt/raid/services/git/mesoscope.git
git remote add live ssh://autin@mgl2.scripps.edu/usr/local/repo/mesoscope_release.git
git remote add beta ssh://autin@mgl2.scripps.edu/usr/local/repo/mesoscope_beta.git

git remote add live_virtual ssh://autin@mesoscope.scripps.edu/var/local/mesoscope_release.git/
git remote add beta_virtual ssh://autin@mesoscope.scripps.edu/var/local/mesoscope_beta.git/


#for developement
git push origin master
#for testing online
git push beta master
#for deploying
git push beta_virtual master

alternative could be to use the hook directly on origin but for a particular branch
#python -m http.server --cgi

# also need to chown the /var/html/ folders so the hook has permission to write.
# check  SELinuc on the server for cgi-execution  httpd_sys_script_exec_t