The scala code behind www.ifany.org

If you're browsing this code, please keep in mind that while I occasionally update parts, most of it is almost a decade old.

Dev Setup

To run the code, install sbt, decrypt the environment and run sbt with the environment passed in:

brew install sbt
gpg --decrypt < aws.test.env.gpg > aws.test.env
env $(cat aws.test.env) sbt

Inside SBT you can type run or compile to either run or compile the code.

Deploying to dokku

Occasionally, the build either can't reserve sufficient memory or stalls when deploying to dokku. This is a bit stupid and it's mostly because I'm building my artefacts on the same small host that runs a bunch of web apps because I'm stingy and don't want to pay for a bigger one. Usually the solution is to just stop the current photos instance from running:

dokku ps:stop photos

This will mean a short amount of downtime, which I'm not at all concerned about.

Encryption Certificates

I've enabled https for ifany.org as well as a few apps on dynkarken.com. To do so, I've used the lets-encrypt plugin: https://github.com/dokku/dokku-letsencrypt

Setting it up was incredibly straightforward. I just added an ENV value for the encryption email, installed the plugin and enabled it for photos:

sudo dokku plugin:install https://github.com/dokku/dokku-letsencrypt.git
dokku config:set --no-restart photos DOKKU_LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL=admin@ifany.org
dokku letsencrypt:enable photos

I had to remove the ifany.org domain as it redirects to www.ifany.org. I've checked that the site still works fine when accessed as ifany.org (and that the connection is now https!)

I've also enabled a cronjob to update certificates:

dokku letsencrypt:cron-job --add
-----> Updated schedule file
-----> Added cron job to dokku's crontab.

Hopefully that should mean that no other work here is needed. Fingers crossed.