GocustomUrls

This is a homespun implementation of the practice of using custom import paths for go modules.

This package basically returns a html document with a prefilled meta tag

<meta name="go-import" content="{package} git {url location of the package}">

There are ways to do this with nginx or hugo but I wanted to:

• host on a subdomain
• not muck up my ngnix config

So I used golang for this project.

Testing

You can test with

(a) httpie

$ http --body "https://{domain.name}/{package}?go-get=1"
...Truncated output

(b) With the go-get command

$ go get -v -u jbowen.dev/cereal
get "jbowen.dev/cereal": found meta tag get.metaImport{Prefix:"jbowen.dev/cereal", VCS:"git", RepoRoot:"https://github.com/jamesbo13/cereal"} at //jbowen.dev/cereal?go-get=1
jbowen.dev/cereal (download)

Sample logrotate config

Initial

~/.gocustomurls/logs/app.log {
        size 20M    
        copyTruncate
        compress  
        notifempty   
        delaycompress
}

To fix this error

rotating pattern: /home/bloguser/.gocustomurls/logs/app.log  forced from command line (no old logs will be kept)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /home/bloguser/.gocustomurls/logs/app.log
error: skipping "/home/bloguser/.gocustomurls/logs/app.log" because parent directory has insecure permissions (It's world writable or writable by group which is not "root") Set "su" directive in config file to tell logrotate which user/group should be used for rotation.

do this instead

~/.gocustomurls/logs/app.log {
        su bloguser bloguser
        size 20M    
        copytruncate
        compress  
        notifempty   
        delaycompress
}

TODOs

• Fix permission errors around opening the app.log and rules.json.
• Make the flags (config, rules) required instead of optional. * Figure how to use logrotate (a linux utility)
• Figure how to do log rotation as part of this app's function