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<p>The nerd needs to login to the expo server using <em>their own userid</em>, not the 'expo' userid. The nerd also needs to be in the group that is allowed to do 'sudo'.
<h4>Ideal situation</h4>
<p>Ideally this would all be done on a stand-alone laptop to get the bugs in the logbook parsing sorted out before we upload the corrected file to the server. Unfortunately this requires a full troggle software development laptop as the parser is built into troggle. The <var>expo laptop</var> in the potato hut is not set up to do this (yet - 2022).
<p>However, the <var>expo laptop</var> (or any 'bulk update' laptop) is configured to allow an authorized user to log in to the server itself and to run the import process directly on the server.
<h4>Current situation</h4>
<p>The nerd needs to do this:
<ol>
<li>Look at the list of pre-existing old import errors at <a href="/dataissues">Data Issues</a> </br>
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<li><a href="/repositories/expoweb/.git/"><var>:expoweb:</var></a> - the website pages, handbook, generation scripts (git)</li>
<li><a href="/repositories/troggle/.git/"><var>:troggle:</var></a> - the database/software part of the survey data management system<br> - see <a href="../troggle/trogintro.html">notes on troggle</a> for further explanations </li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to use your own laptop to interact directly with the repos then a basic laptop or a survey laptop is not enough: you need an
<a href="bulkupdatelaptop.html">expo bulk update laptop</a>.
<p>From the command line, to clone a repo, you will do this
<tt>git clone ssh://expo@expo.survex.com/home/expo/loser</tt>
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<p>NOTE: when using git to path to a repository, always use user <var>'expo'</var> as the login user (<var>ssh://expo@...</var>) even though within git you will be identified by your own ssh key name. This is because file permissions on the server require this.
<p>So cavers wanting to do sophisticated management of their cave survey data (i.e. not just simple
uploads) will have to use a machine on which they key is already set up. The <i>expo laptop</i> lives in the potato hut during expo and it is sometimes joined by the laptop '<i>aziraphale</i>'. These are both loaned machines running Linux. If you want to use your own laptop then
see the <a href="basiclaptop.html">basic laptop setup</a>.
uploads) will have to use a machine on which they key is already set up. The <i>expo laptop</i> lives in the potato hut during expo and it is sometimes joined by the laptop '<i>aziraphale</i>'. These are both loaned machines running Linux. If you want to use your own laptop then a basic laptop or a survey laptop is not enough: you need a
<a href="bulkupdatelaptop.html">bulk update laptop</a>.
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<em>Technical Note:</em> The information in the cave registration form is saved to the server as a file, which is
committed to the version control system automatically, as
well as being registered in the online database used by the website publication software. If you are a nerd with a
<a href="../computing/basiclaptop.html#basic"><var>basic expo laptop</var></a>, you can edit the file directly.
<a href="../computing/bulkupdatelaptop.html#basic"><var>bulk update laptop</var></a>, you can edit the file directly.
For Fischgesicht (originally 2017-CUCC-28 and now 1623/290), this is in the
<var>:expoweb:</var> repo, in <var>/cave_data/1623-290.html</var>, but you will have to manage the git commit process yourself.
<p>Fischgesicht currently (pre-2022 expo) has 25 survex files (listed <a href="/survexfile/2017-cucc-28">here</a>
now, or <a href="/survexfile/caves-1623/290/290.svx">here</a> in future). You could do a useful job by
<p>Fischgesicht currently (pre-2023 expo) has 25 survex files (listed as <a href="/survexfile/2017-cucc-28">2017-cucc-28</a>, <a href="/survexfile/290">290</a>
or <a href="/survexfile/caves-1623/290/290.svx">290 survexfile</a> ). You could do a useful job by
checking all those survex files to see if the cave description in them has already been copied into the cave registration form
"Underground description" text box.
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<p>If you draw up the topo after expo is over, then email them to a nerd who will upload them into the right place.
<p>If you have your own machine configured as a <a href="../computing/basiclaptop.html#basic">expo basic laptop</a> then you can use
<p>If you have your own machine configured as a <a href="../computing/bulkupdatelaptop.html">expo bulk update laptop</a> then you can use
<a href="../computing/fzconfig.html">Filezilla</a> to upload the topo files directly to the server.
<h3>This may be a change from how you used to do it</h3>
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<p>This is the folder structure of the repo <var>:expoweb:</var> which is also the root
of the website. Note that the webserver (apache) presents many more apparent folders, such as <var>expofiles</var>, than there are folders because that's what it and troggle do.
<p>In the list below only the <var>handbook</var> folder has been expanded. The <var>years</var> folder includes
42 subfolders from <var>1976</var> to <var>2019</var>.
42 subfolders from <var>1976</var> to <var>2022</var>.
<code><textarea id="folders" rows="30" cols="30">
expoweb (repo)
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