From 5563d56a328433580bd74635a60cfeefecdc266c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gary Kim Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 07:00:40 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update static resources documentation (#10270) Signed-off-by: Gary Kim Co-authored-by: Lauris BH Co-authored-by: zeripath --- docs/content/doc/usage/reverse-proxies.en-us.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/content/doc/usage/reverse-proxies.en-us.md b/docs/content/doc/usage/reverse-proxies.en-us.md index 4c6a0560df..e9b0a3109a 100644 --- a/docs/content/doc/usage/reverse-proxies.en-us.md +++ b/docs/content/doc/usage/reverse-proxies.en-us.md @@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ Nginx can serve static resources directly and proxy only the dynamic requests to Nginx is optimized for serving static content, while the proxying of large responses might be the opposite of that (see https://serverfault.com/q/587386). -Download a snap shot of the gitea source repository to `/path/to/gitea/`. - -We are only interested in the `public/` directory and you can delete the rest. +Download a snapshot of the Gitea source repository to `/path/to/gitea/`. +After this, run `make webpack` in the repository directory to generate the static resources. We are only interested in the `public/` directory for this task, so you can delete the rest. +(You will need to have [Node with npm](https://nodejs.org/en/download/) and `make` installed to generate the static resources) Depending on the scale of your user base, you might want to split the traffic to two distinct servers, or use a cdn for the static files.