Spinning Up StaticCMS

Spinning Up StaticCMS

Today is Saturday, January 13, 2024, and I won't be able to watch the KC Chief's wildcard playoff game vs. the Miami Dolphins tonight because it is streaming ONLY on Peacock, and I refuse to pay them for the "privilege" to watch it live.  So, I'm going to do something productive instead.  Let's see if I can spin up an instance of StaticCMS to provide an OPEN CMS for the content editor(s) behind the Wieting Theatre website.  

The Plan

So, the plan here involves establishing a "local-only" CMS for the Wieting Theatre website and running it on the new Ubuntu server in the Wieting's projection booth. Editors should will be given login credentials to that server where they can run a local copy of the website (it's a Hugo static site) AND a local copy of the CMS editor, make changes, preview them, and commit the changes to the project's GitHub repo. The website, hosted with AWS Amplify is then automatically updated based on the updated content.

Along the Way

It's worth noting that while looking at StaticCMS I also stumbled upon tabcms - A CMS that runs in your browser tab which might be of interest if "The Plan" doesn't work.

First Steps - Start with a Template

I choose the guidance at Start with a Template to get started. My aim is to clone that repo and build it locally "as-is", then see if I can drop my existing wieting-ss repo into the site directory and continue to make it work locally.

If that works, I'll repeat the same on the Wieting's Ubuntu server and keep pushing forward. Wish me luck?

Getting Started

Following the Local Development guidance found me cloning this template then...

╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-netlify-template ‹main› 
╰─$ npm install 
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.

added 1567 packages, and audited 1568 packages in 2m

426 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

2 moderate severity vulnerabilities

To address all issues, run:
  npm audit fix

Run `npm audit` for details.
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-netlify-template ‹main*› 
╰─$ npm start

> [email protected] start
> run-p start:**


> [email protected] start:webpack
> webpack-dev-server --config webpack.dev.js --hot --stats-error-details


> [email protected] start:hugo
> hugo -d ../dist -s site -vw

WARN  --verbose was deprecated in Hugo v0.114.0 and will be removed in a future release. use --logLevel info
Start building sites … 
hugo v0.120.1-16fb2cae88eb6add7d12e9fbfcf01d8670e60a35 darwin/amd64 BuildDate=2023-10-30T16:44:31Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

INFO  copy static: syncing static files to /
INFO  build: running step process duration 962.376µs
INFO  build: running step assemble duration 4.712758ms
INFO  build: running step render duration 16.982673ms
INFO  build: running step postProcess duration 8.3µs

                   | EN  
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  Pages            | 10  
  Paginator pages  |  0  
  Non-page files   |  0  
  Static files     | 43  
  Processed images |  0  
  Aliases          |  1  
  Sitemaps         |  1  
  Cleaned          |  0  

Built in 68 ms
Watching for changes in /Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-netlify-template/site/{content,data,layouts,static}
Watching for config changes in /Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-netlify-template/site/config.toml
Press Ctrl+C to stop
<i> [webpack-dev-server] Project is running at:
<i> [webpack-dev-server] Loopback: http://localhost:3000/
<i> [webpack-dev-server] On Your Network (IPv4): http://192.168.0.183:3000/
<i> [webpack-dev-server] On Your Network (IPv6): http://[fe80::1]:3000/
<i> [webpack-dev-server] Content not from webpack is served from '/Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-netlify-template/dist' directory
<i> [webpack-dev-server] 404s will fallback to '/index.html'
<i> [webpack-dev-middleware] wait until bundle finished: /
assets by path *.js 18.3 MiB
  asset cms.js 18 MiB [emitted] (name: cms)
  asset main.js 300 KiB [emitted] (name: main)
asset main.css 113 KiB [emitted] (name: main)
asset admin/index.html 521 bytes [emitted]
asset fonts/.keep 0 bytes [emitted] [from: src/fonts/.keep] [copied]
Entrypoint main 413 KiB = main.css 113 KiB main.js 300 KiB
Entrypoint cms 18 MiB = cms.js
runtime modules 72.3 KiB 38 modules
modules by path ./node_modules/ 16.9 MiB 82 modules
modules by path ./src/ 133 KiB (javascript) 113 KiB (css/mini-extract)
  modules by path ./src/js/ 15.2 KiB 9 modules
  modules by path ./src/css/*.scss 118 KiB (javascript) 113 KiB (css/mini-extract)
    ./src/css/main.scss 2.78 KiB [built] [code generated]
    ./node_modules/to-string-loader/src/to-string.js!./node_modules/css-loader/dist/cjs.js!./node_modules/postcss-loader/dist/cjs.js!./node_modules/sass-loader/dist/cjs.js!./src/css/main.scss 429 bytes [built] [code generated]
    ./node_modules/mini-css-extract-plugin/dist/loader.js??ruleSet[1].rules[2].use[1]!./node_modules/css-loader/dist/cjs.js!./node_modules/postcss-loader/dist/cjs.js!./node_modules/sass-loader/dist/cjs.js!./src/css/main.scss 332 bytes [built] [code generated]
    + 2 modules
  ./src/index.js 124 bytes [built] [code generated]
asset modules 5.46 KiB
  data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAAN.. 1.28 KiB [built] [code generated] [build time executed]
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webpack 5.89.0 compiled successfully in 6191 ms
INFO  Received System Events: [CREATE        "/Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-netlify-template/site/data/webpack.json" WRITE         "/Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-netlify-template/site/data/webpack.json"]

Change detected, rebuilding site.
2024-01-13 10:55:38.259 -0600
Data changed WRITE         "/Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-netlify-template/site/data/webpack.json"
Data changed WRITE         "/Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-netlify-template/site/data/webpack.json"
INFO  build: running step process duration 114.033µs
INFO  build: running step assemble duration 277ns
INFO  build: running step render duration 6.244639ms
INFO  build: running step postProcess duration 1.831µs
Total in 6 ms

The demo site is indeed working at http://localhost:3000/ and a vist to http://localhost:3000/admin does indeed open a StaticCMS login that's prompting me with the following image.

Screenshot-2024-01-13-at-11.00.45

Let's Go Local!

Next, I'm going to try and switch what we have above to "go local" using this guidance provided in the StaticCMS documenation. Fingers crossed for good luck...

Eureka! It Works!

So, I made the local_backend config changes as prescribed in site/static/admin/config.yml and that file now looks like this:

local_backend: 
  # when using a custom proxy server port
  url: http://localhost:8082/api/v1
  # when accessing the local site from a host other than 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1'
  allowed_hosts: ['192.168.0.1']

I also added a new .env file in the project root directory with a single line reading PORT=8082, matching the port number specified in the url: value from config.yml.

Now, with npx @staticcms/proxy-server running in a local terminal I'm able to run npm start (in my VSCode terminal) to launch the site at localhost:3000. Having done that I'm able to visit http://localhost:3000/admin where I get a new StaticCMS splash screen with a simple Login button, not a Netlify button. Yay!

Even Better News?

StaticCMS was built from NetlifyCMS so the site/static/admin/config.yml. I think I'll be able to use the collections: portion of my old admin/config.yml file from wieting-one-click-hugo-cms to get a headstart on setting that up!

Next step... let's see if I can drop the site directory from wieting-ss into this local project and still have a functioning local site. Again, fingers crossed for luck.

Fresh Restart

In order to start fresh I went back to the StaticJsCMS/static-cms-hugo-netlify-template repo and created a new fork (not a clone) in my Summitt-Services team space at https://github.com/Summitt-Services/static-cms-hugo-local-template. In the new fork I changed the -netlify- portion of the name to -local- as this new project is intended to have no Netlify association, only a "local" CMS will be supported.

Next, I cloned the new fork to my workstation and got it working locally again using the same steps I had taken above.

Copying wieting-ss to static-cms-hugo-local-template

For safe-keeping I created a new branch named wieting in ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template where I did this:

╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template ‹wieting*› 
╰─$ rsync -aruvi ../wieting-ss/. site/.
...
>f++++++++++ themes/vanilla-bootstrap-hugo-theme/static/js/checkTweetDate.js
>f++++++++++ themes/vanilla-bootstrap-hugo-theme/static/js/feather.min.js
>f++++++++++ themes/vanilla-bootstrap-hugo-theme/static/js/jquery-3.3.1.slim.min.js

sent 282,877,469 bytes  received 470,944 bytes  9,605,030.95 bytes/sec
total size is 470,527,158  speedup is 1.66

Will it work? Let's see... NOPE. It does produce a site but the old "Kaldi" content is still all I see. I even changed the backend.branch: value from main to wieting, but that did nothing. So, I've captured the output here so that I can have a look at what's happening.

╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template ‹wieting*› 
╰─$ npm start                               

> [email protected] start
> run-p start:**


> [email protected] start:webpack
> webpack-dev-server --config webpack.dev.js --hot --stats-error-details


> [email protected] start:hugo
> hugo -d ../dist -s site -vw

WARN  --verbose was deprecated in Hugo v0.114.0 and will be removed in a future release. use --logLevel info
Start building sites … 
hugo v0.120.1-16fb2cae88eb6add7d12e9fbfcf01d8670e60a35 darwin/amd64 BuildDate=2023-10-30T16:44:31Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

INFO  copy static: syncing static files to /
INFO  build: running step process duration 4.236952ms
INFO  build: running step assemble duration 13.684119ms
WARN  found no layout file for "json" for kind "section": You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination.
INFO  build: running step render duration 58.753135ms
INFO  build: running step postProcess duration 8.744µs

                   | EN   
-------------------+------
  Pages            |  66  
  Paginator pages  |   7  
  Non-page files   |   0  
  Static files     | 541  
  Processed images |   0  
  Aliases          |   7  
  Sitemaps         |   1  
  Cleaned          |   0  

Built in 579 ms
Watching for changes in /Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template/site/{archetypes,content,data,layouts,package.json,static,themes}
Watching for config changes in /Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template/site/config.toml, /Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template/site/config/_default
Press Ctrl+C to stop
<i> [webpack-dev-server] Project is running at:
<i> [webpack-dev-server] Loopback: http://localhost:3000/
<i> [webpack-dev-server] On Your Network (IPv4): http://192.168.0.183:3000/
<i> [webpack-dev-server] On Your Network (IPv6): http://[fe80::1]:3000/
<i> [webpack-dev-server] Content not from webpack is served from '/Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template/dist' directory
<i> [webpack-dev-server] 404s will fallback to '/index.html'
<i> [webpack-dev-middleware] wait until bundle finished: /
assets by path *.js 18.3 MiB
  asset cms.js 18 MiB [emitted] (name: cms)
  asset main.js 300 KiB [emitted] (name: main)
asset main.css 113 KiB [emitted] (name: main)
asset admin/index.html 521 bytes [emitted]
asset fonts/.keep 0 bytes [emitted] [from: src/fonts/.keep] [copied]
Entrypoint main 413 KiB = main.css 113 KiB main.js 300 KiB
Entrypoint cms 18 MiB = cms.js
runtime modules 72.3 KiB 38 modules
modules by path ./node_modules/ 16.9 MiB 82 modules
modules by path ./src/ 133 KiB (javascript) 113 KiB (css/mini-extract)
  modules by path ./src/js/ 15.2 KiB 9 modules
  modules by path ./src/css/*.scss 118 KiB (javascript) 113 KiB (css/mini-extract)
    ./src/css/main.scss 2.78 KiB [built] [code generated]
    ./node_modules/to-string-loader/src/to-string.js!./node_modules/css-loader/dist/cjs.js!./node_modules/postcss-loader/dist/cjs.js!./node_modules/sass-loader/dist/cjs.js!./src/css/main.scss 429 bytes [built] [code generated]
    ./node_modules/mini-css-extract-plugin/dist/loader.js??ruleSet[1].rules[2].use[1]!./node_modules/css-loader/dist/cjs.js!./node_modules/postcss-loader/dist/cjs.js!./node_modules/sass-loader/dist/cjs.js!./src/css/main.scss 332 bytes [built] [code generated]
    + 2 modules
  ./src/index.js 124 bytes [built] [code generated]
asset modules 5.46 KiB
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webpack 5.89.0 compiled successfully in 5563 ms
INFO  Received System Events: [CHMOD         "/Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template/site/data/webpack.json" WRITE         "/Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template/site/data/webpack.json"]

Change detected, rebuilding site.
2024-01-13 13:15:08.329 -0600
Data changed WRITE         "/Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template/site/data/webpack.json"
INFO  build: running step process duration 186.604µs
INFO  build: running step assemble duration 244ns
WARN  found no layout file for "json" for kind "section": You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination.
INFO  build: running step render duration 31.514265ms
INFO  build: running step postProcess duration 7.661µs
Total in 31 ms
^C<i> [webpack-dev-server] Gracefully shutting down. To force exit, press ^C again. Please wait...

Corrections Needed

So, the first thing I see here is that the new site directory contains the template's content/_index.md file which naturally becomes the site's home page. It contains only "Kaldi" content. So I tried removing that _index.md file and that changed the home page "title", but very little else.

I think returing to the main branch of this project and starting over again but using only the content of wieting-ss in the new site/ directory might be wise. I did it like this:

╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub
╰─$ rm -fr static-cms-hugo-local-template
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub
╰─$ git clone https://github.com/Summitt-Services/static-cms-hugo-local-template.git
Cloning into 'static-cms-hugo-local-template'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 574, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (155/155), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (50/50), done.
remote: Total 574 (delta 122), reused 125 (delta 102), pack-reused 419
Receiving objects: 100% (574/574), 22.14 MiB | 23.94 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (248/248), done.
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub
╰─$ cd static-cms-hugo-local-template
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template ‹main›
╰─$ cp -fr site/static/admin ~
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template ‹main›
╰─$ rm -fr site
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template ‹main*›
╰─$ mkdir site
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template ‹main*›
╰─$ cp -fr ../wieting-ss/. site/.
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template ‹main*›
╰─$ cp -f ~/admin/config.yml site/static/admin/.

Next I launched the proxy server like so:

╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template ‹main*›
╰─$ npx @staticcms/proxy-server
info: Static CMS File System Proxy Server configured with /Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template
info: Static CMS Proxy Server listening on port 8082

Then in my VSCode terminal this:

╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template ‹main*› 
╰─$ npm start

> [email protected] start
> run-p start:**


> [email protected] start:webpack
> webpack-dev-server --config webpack.dev.js --hot --stats-error-details


> [email protected] start:hugo
> hugo -d ../dist -s site -vw

WARN  --verbose was deprecated in Hugo v0.114.0 and will be removed in a future release. use --logLevel info
Start building sites … 
hugo v0.120.1-16fb2cae88eb6add7d12e9fbfcf01d8670e60a35 darwin/amd64 BuildDate=2023-10-30T16:44:31Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

INFO  copy static: syncing static files to /
INFO  build: running step process duration 3.193622ms
INFO  build: running step assemble duration 25.748629ms
WARN  found no layout file for "json" for kind "section": You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination.
INFO  build: running step render duration 70.992512ms
INFO  build: running step postProcess duration 9.94µs
<i> [webpack-dev-server] Project is running at:
<i> [webpack-dev-server] Loopback: http://localhost:3000/
<i> [webpack-dev-server] On Your Network (IPv4): http://192.168.0.183:3000/
<i> [webpack-dev-server] On Your Network (IPv6): http://[fe80::1]:3000/
<i> [webpack-dev-server] Content not from webpack is served from '/Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template/dist' directory
<i> [webpack-dev-server] 404s will fallback to '/index.html'

                   | EN   
-------------------+------
  Pages            |  57  
  Paginator pages  |   0  
  Non-page files   |   0  
  Static files     | 499  
  Processed images |   0  
  Aliases          |   1  
  Sitemaps         |   1  
  Cleaned          |   0  

Built in 1034 ms
Watching for changes in /Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template/site/{archetypes,content,layouts,package.json,static,themes}
Watching for config changes in /Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template/site/config/_default
Press Ctrl+C to stop
<i> [webpack-dev-middleware] wait until bundle finished: /
assets by path *.js 18.3 MiB
  asset cms.js 18 MiB [emitted] (name: cms)
  asset main.js 300 KiB [emitted] (name: main)
asset main.css 113 KiB [emitted] (name: main)
asset admin/index.html 521 bytes [emitted]
asset fonts/.keep 0 bytes [emitted] [from: src/fonts/.keep] [copied]
Entrypoint main 413 KiB = main.css 113 KiB main.js 300 KiB
Entrypoint cms 18 MiB = cms.js
runtime modules 72.3 KiB 38 modules
modules by path ./node_modules/ 16.9 MiB 82 modules
modules by path ./src/ 133 KiB (javascript) 113 KiB (css/mini-extract)
  modules by path ./src/js/ 15.2 KiB 9 modules
  modules by path ./src/css/*.scss 118 KiB (javascript) 113 KiB (css/mini-extract)
    ./src/css/main.scss 2.78 KiB [built] [code generated]
    ./node_modules/to-string-loader/src/to-string.js!./node_modules/css-loader/dist/cjs.js!./node_modules/postcss-loader/dist/cjs.js!./node_modules/sass-loader/dist/cjs.js!./src/css/main.scss 429 bytes [built] [code generated]
    ./node_modules/mini-css-extract-plugin/dist/loader.js??ruleSet[1].rules[2].use[1]!./node_modules/css-loader/dist/cjs.js!./node_modules/postcss-loader/dist/cjs.js!./node_modules/sass-loader/dist/cjs.js!./src/css/main.scss 332 bytes [built] [code generated]
    + 2 modules
  ./src/index.js 124 bytes [built] [code generated]
asset modules 5.46 KiB
  data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAAN.. 1.28 KiB [built] [code generated] [build time executed]
  data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAAN.. 1.33 KiB [built] [code generated] [build time executed]
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webpack 5.89.0 compiled successfully in 6771 ms

Again, it works. Only this time the Wieting website appears at http://localhost:3000 and http://localhost:3000/admin works too, but with the wrong configuration. Still, that's a WIN!

Time To Save My Progress

I really don't want to dump 4000+ new files, many of them specific to the Wieting website, into my pristine (and working) https://github.com/Summitt-Services/static-cms-hugo-local-template GitHub repository. So, I'm going to clean up my local project by removing that which is no longer needed, and then I'm going to remove the .git directory and create/populate a new wieting-staticCMS private repository. After creating that empty repository the process looked like this:

╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template ‹main*› 
╰─$ rm -fr site/.git 
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template ‹main*› 
╰─$ rm -fr .git
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template 
╰─$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/mark/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template/.git/
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template 
╰─$ git add .
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template 
╰─$ git commit -m "first commit"
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template 
╰─$ git branch -M main
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template 
╰─$ git remote add origin https://github.com/SummittDweller/wieting-staticCMS.git
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/static-cms-hugo-local-template 
╰─$ git push -u origin main
...
Enumerating objects: 2979, done.
Counting objects: 100% (2979/2979), done.
Delta compression using up to 6 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (2855/2855), done.
Writing objects: 100% (2979/2979), 95.87 MiB | 2.65 MiB/s, done.
Total 2979 (delta 638), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (638/638), done.
To https://github.com/SummittDweller/wieting-staticCMS.git
 * [new branch]      main -> main
branch 'main' set up to track 'origin/main'.

wieting-staticCMS

With the new GitHub repo in place let's take it for a local spin.

╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub
╰─$ git clone https://github.com/SummittDweller/wieting-staticCMS.git
Cloning into 'wieting-staticCMS'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 2979, done.
remote: Total 2979 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 2979
Receiving objects: 100% (2979/2979), 95.87 MiB | 26.77 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (638/638), done.
Updating files: 100% (4834/4834), done.
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub
╰─$ cd wieting-staticCMS
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/wieting-staticCMS ‹main›
╰─$ npm install
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.

added 1567 packages, and audited 1568 packages in 1m

426 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

2 moderate severity vulnerabilities

To address all issues, run:
  npm audit fix

Run `npm audit` for details.
╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/wieting-staticCMS ‹main›
╰─$ npx @staticcms/proxy-server
info: Static CMS File System Proxy Server configured with /Users/mark/GitHub/wieting-staticCMS
info: Static CMS Proxy Server listening on port 8082

Then, in a differnt terminal window...

╭─mark@Marks-Mac-Mini ~/GitHub/wieting-staticCMS ‹main›
╰─$ npm start

> [email protected] start
> run-p start:**


> [email protected] start:hugo
> hugo -d ../dist -s site -vw


> [email protected] start:webpack
> webpack-dev-server --config webpack.dev.js --hot --stats-error-details

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And again, IT WORKS!

Time to merge the old CMS config from site/static/.admin-netlify/config.yml into the new config at site/static/admin/config.yml.   Then a few changes will be needed since the site's content structure has changed somewhat from the old days.