SFML Website

This repository contains the source code of the SFML website.

The main goal here is to provide a place to easily report or even fix issues with the website. For longer discussions however one should still use the dedicated sub-forum on the SFML forum.

Development

The website is mostly HTML with a bit of PHP sprinkled on top, and styled using LESS.

To view the website in your browser for development, you can essentially pick any web server, that can call PHP.

Pre-Requisite

Windows

It's highly recommended to use WSL2, as setting up Apache or Nginx is a lot more straight forward on a Linux subsystem.
If you don't want to do this, there are common packages such as XAMPP, WampServer, or AMPPS.

After WSL2 has been installed and you opened an Linux shell in the Windows Terminal, follow the Linux steps below.

macOS

Ensure brew is installed.

brew install php

brew install nginx
# OR
brew install httpd

Additional References:

• https://pimylifeup.com/install-nginx-on-macos/
• https://pimylifeup.com/install-php-on-macos/

Linux

On Linux, we'll provide commands for Debian/Ubuntu-like package managers. If you use a different distro, you'll have to look up the equivalent commands.

sudo apt install php8.1-fpm

sudo apt install nginx
# OR
sudo apt install apache2

In case php8.1-fpm doesn't exist, add the PPA:

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt update

Configurations

General Notes:

• In case port 80 is already in use, change the port to something else. If you for example pick 1337, the website will then be accessible at http://sfml.localhost:1337
• On Windows, *.localhost DNS are automatically mapped to 127.0.0.1. If you want to use another custom domain, make sure to put a resolving DNS entry in your hosts file.
• On Windows with WSL2, you can use /mnt/c/... to access the C:\ drive.

Nginx

• On Linux:
  • Create a new config file at /etc/nginx/sites-available
  • Create a link to the sites-enabled directory, to enable the new config: sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/sfml /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/sfml
  • Test the Nginx config: sudo /sbin/nginx -t
  • Reload the config: sudo service nginx reload or sudo systemctl reload nginx
• On macOS:
  • Start Nginx: brew services start nginx
  • Start php as service for Nginx: brew services start php
  • Edit: /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf or /opt/homebrew/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
  • Test the Nginx config: nginx -t
  • Reload the config: brew services reload nginx

server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80;

        server_name sfml.localhost;
        root /path/to/the/cloned/SFML-website/repository;

        index index.php index.html;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
        }

        location ~* \.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;

                # Uncomment for Linux
                #fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock;

                # Uncomment for macOS
                #fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;

                fastcgi_index index.php;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include fastcgi_params;
        }
}

Apache

• On Linux:
  • Create a new config file at /etc/apache2/sites-available
  • Create a link to the sites-enabled directory, to enable the new config: sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/sfml /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/sfml
  • Test the Nginx config: sudo /sbin/apache2 -t
  • Reload the config: sudo service apache2 reload or sudo systemctl reload apache2
• On macOS:
  • Edit: /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf or /opt/homebrew/etc/httpd/httpd.conf
  • Reload the config: brew services reload httpd

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName sfml.localhost

        DocumentRoot /path/to/the/cloned/SFML-website/repository
        DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</VirtualHost>

License

See the LICENSE file.