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Contributing Content to RetroWeb
Join our discord channel, or Facebook group RetroWeb User Group. Ask one of the admins to help you get started.
You Will Need
Getting started
Get a login to the Contributor Panel and SSH. See above how to contact Admins.
Login to Contributor Panel
Install and run the latest version of PuTTY
Under Host Name type in sirius.steptail.com and under Port 2269
On the navigation bar to the left, change to SSH and select the subcategory Tunnels.
Under Source Port, type in 8080. Under Destination, type 10.0.16.62:8080. Make sure the option Local is selected, then click Add
On the navigation bar to the left, go back to the Session at the very top.
You may save your settings now by typing in a name under Saved Sessions and clicking Save.
Click Open to login. Type in your SSH username and password given to you in the earlier part of this guide.
Once logged in, you will need to set your web browser proxy parameters as follows:
HTTP: localhost, Port 8080
FTP:
localhost, Port
8080
Contribution Workflow
The standard workflow is as follows:
Decide which web site you'd like to archive. It should be a site that first appeared in the 90's or latest in the year 2001.
First open archive.org track down a good copy of a website, notate their date when they were archived on archive.org. Browse the date of the website until you see least broken links and images. This date will be your target date for the archiver.
Open the archiver, and start an archiving job for the domain and the target date. Select a link depth that is realistic for the website. If it's a large website, it could take days to complete with depth=5 or depth=6.
Once complete, it will be editable, and can be previewed with the development proxy server. The development proxy server is access restricted, and you will need to give me your IP address to allow access to it. Otherwise it works just like the production server.
You will want to fix any broken links, and images. Once you're done, you can hit publish. The website will be marked published, and be viewable in the production server within 24 hours.
Also, if the archive job failed for whatever reason, feel free to delete it and start over.
Questions Answered
Q: How do I know if my job is failed?
A: You can view running jobs in the control panel, and looking at your jobs logs will usually indicate a failure. or if you notice your website started archiving, but you put in the wrong target date, you can delete a running job