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title: Create live devbox for wiki.rockylinux.org
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author:
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- Lukas Magauer
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- Al Bowles
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revision_date: 2023-04-29
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# How to create a live system to work on the documentation
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There are several ways how to setup your development environment, here are the currently used once by the testing team:
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## Vagrant
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For now here is the link to [Trevor's vagrant box setup](https://github.com/tcooper/rocky-linux-wikibox), this might be merged here in the future!
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## Manual setup for WSL and toolbox
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### WSL specific
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Create a WSL machine like [described here](https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/interoperability/import_rocky_to_wsl), make sure to give it a name like `rocky-wiki`.
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### toolbox specific
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- Make sure you have `toolbox` installed on your system
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- Create a toolbox `toolbox create rocky-wiki` (on Rocky Linux 8 and 9 machines this will create either a Rocky Linux 8 or 9 toolbox container)
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### Container setup for both
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- Run `dnf -y update` to update the system
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- Run `dnf -y install git python39-pip` to install Python 3.9 and pip (Python 3.9 is default for Rocky Linux 9, the package is called `python3-pip` there)
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- Run `python3.9 -m pip install -U pip` to update pip
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- Clone the repo `git clone <path-to-git-project>`
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- And get into the folder of the repo `cd <git-project-name>`
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- Sometimes you will need to switch the branch here
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- Install all the requirements of the repo `python3.9 -m pip install -r requirements.txt`
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- If you just want to look at the output run `mkdocs serve 2>&1 | tee ./mkdocs.serve.log`
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To develop then, the easiest way is to use VS Code with the [Remote - WSL](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl), where you have to open the repo in the container (click on the Remote symbol on the lower left, 'Open folder in WSL...').
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For toolbox just place the repo inside your user profile and you will be able to access it with VS Code inside and outside of the toolbox container.
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And finally run `mkdocs serve 2>&1 | tee ./mkdocs.serve.log` in the terminal of this VS Code session. Then you are ready to start changing stuff!
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## Docker
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From the root of this repository on a machine with Docker installed, run
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docker-compose up
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When the container finishes starting up, you can access the documentation in your web browser at [http://localhost:8000](http://localhost:8000).
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{% include 'testing/rc_content_bottom.md' %}
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