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One repo, one site: the workspace merged into land-of-lor, the site on spellgrove.com

building-the-game/001 · created 2026-09-03 · updated 2026-09-03

What was done (2026-09-03, laptop session)

• The lor-workspace repo merged into land-of-lor with git subtree add (history kept): its root became workshop/ (epics, deliverables, decisions, brand, historic-docs, marketing/ — was marketing-and-communication/ — WHY.md, its README.md and CLAUDE.md); its site/ became site/ at the repo root; godot-setup-for-pocs/ became tools/godot-setup/. setup-subrepos.sh, deploy-watch.sh, ssh_droplet.py and the disabled GitHub workflow were dropped from the moved tree. The workspace repo itself is now a thin coordinator: README, a pointer CLAUDE.md, setup-subrepos.sh, .gitignore.
• Every path the site reads re-pointed (astro.config.mjs, content.config.ts, brand.ts, taskPath.ts, about, PICKUP.md.ts, design-brief.md.ts, validate-epics.mjs); repoLink.ts maps the old workspace roots onto the new folders so older epic prose keeps linking; export-web.sh’s embed path follows the site; the build output default is site/dist (the droplet sets OUT_DIR).
• Nav: “The World” became the Building the Game submenu — The Building Blocks (/building, the landing), The World, and Elements / Creatures marked soon.
• The site is built on the game droplet: content checkout /opt/lor/content (origin = GitHub over the deploy key ~lor/.ssh/lor_deploy_key), /opt/lor/bin/site-build.sh run by lor-site-build.timer every 2 minutes (fetch, compare origin/master to the last-built SHA, ff-only pull, npm ci && npm run build into /var/www/spellgrove.new, swap; log at /opt/lor/site-build.log; --force builds the local checkout even when the fetch fails). Caddy serves spellgrove.com (site + /director/ + /game/<port> + /download/), www redirects to the apex, staging answers a placeholder. A 2 GB swapfile was added (the box had none; the Astro build wants headroom). Certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt on first request.
• The old host lor.kris.ai-task-runner.com now serves a redirect page to spellgrove.com at every path that existed (its final build is archived on that host as /root/lor-public-site-final-20260903.tar.gz); the host cron entry lor-deploy-once was removed.
• DNS: Kris set the three A records (@, www, staging → 209.38.29.22) on Namecheap.
• Also folded in: the local authoring hub (tools/hub-ui/index.html) and hexagram 2 renamed Dirt.

Waiting on Kris

• The deploy key. ~lor/.ssh/lor_deploy_key.pub on the droplet (label lor-game-server-01-deploy-readonly) must be added at github.com/krisrandall/land-of-lor/settings/keys with write access. Until then the timer’s fetch fails (logged, harmless) and a rebuild needs a bundle pushed by hand plus site-build.sh --force; after it, every push to master is live within two minutes.

Verify

ssh -i .secrets/lor_runner_key lor@209.38.29.22 tail -5 /opt/lor/site-build.log   # "build OK"
curl -sI https://spellgrove.com/ https://spellgrove.com/building https://spellgrove.com/world | grep HTTP
curl -sI https://www.spellgrove.com/ | grep -i location                           # -> https://spellgrove.com/
curl -s https://lor.kris.ai-task-runner.com/ | grep -o 'spellgrove.com'           # the redirect

Assumptions

• workshop/ as the folder name for the merged workspace; site/ at the top level because it is the game’s face now, not the workshop’s.
• Older epic prose keeps its workspace-relative paths; the site’s link mapper translates them rather than rewriting history.
• The game client keeps lor-server.cocreations.com.au for now (server-architecture/018).

Review artifact: workshop/epics/building-the-game/tasks/001-migration-and-domain.md

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