Superseded by https://github.com/thunderrabbit/new-DH-user-account

new DH site.md

Superseded by https://github.com/thunderrabbit/new-DH-user-account

The following has been superseded by https://github.com/thunderrabbit/new-DH-user-account

From their panel -> Domains -> Manage Domains -> Add Hosting to a Domain / Sub-domain

fill in the blanks, including create a new user

Make sure the new user is a shell user at https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=users.users

Create a new ssh key for the new site

ssh-keygen

Enter the domain as the key filename

Move the keypair to ~/.ssh

Append something like the following to ~/.ssh/config:

Host example
    HostName example.com
    User example

scp the public key to the new machine:

scp ~/.ssh/example.pub example:

ssh into the new machine and move the key to ~/.ssh

mkdir ~/.ssh
chmod 700 ~/.ssh

Move the public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

chmod 400 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Make ~/.bash_aliases look like this:

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias gitd='git diff -b'
alias gitl='git log --oneline --graph --decorate --all'
alias gits='git status'

Append this to ~/.bash_profile`

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
    . ~/.bash_aliases
fi

EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs

export EDITOR

Edit .gitignore

*~
.cache
logs/
.ssh/
.bash_history
example.com

Set up git:

git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore
git config --global user.name "Rob Nugen"
git config --global user.email rob@example.com

Save all the things:

cd ~
git init
git add .
git commit -m "First version of all the things"

Log out of the new machine

On local machine:

Add the IdentityFile to ~/.ssh/config:

Host example
    HostName example.com
    User example
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/example.com

Now ssh into the site:

ssh example

Enter password for the ssh key and you should be in.