Document how to cargo publish to local installation

[ralph]

I'm currently having a hard time figuring out how to push to my local crates.io installation. The --token part is pretty clear, but I don't know what to use as --host. I tried setting it to my local rust server http://localhost:8888, but from what I can see in the log it tries to do some kind of git request. So I forked the central https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index repository, adjusting the https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index/blob/master/config.json file to point to my local rust server, but I'm still getting an error:

cargo publish --host https://github.com/ralph/crates.io-index --token XrD3BRBV4IH1yxBw5sNMVWjS66ruVEbq --verbose                                                                                      ⏎ ✱
    Updating registry `https://github.com/ralph/crates.io-index`
Warning: manifest has no description or license. See http://doc.crates.io/manifest.html#package-metadata for more info.
   Uploading zcolor v0.0.1 (file:///Users/ralph/Documents/work/rust/color-rs)
http error: Couldn't connect to server

(That's my local crates.io token in the snippet.)

I'm trying to push the color-rs package (https://github.com/bjz/color-rs) from the Guide (http://doc.crates.io/guide.html), btw., but have the package name changed to zcolor.

Can you help me publish to my local crates.io? I'd like to have a few packages in there, in order to be able to play with the Ember code.

Also, is there a better way to get sample data?

[ralph]

To answer my own question: I had to change config.json to http://127.0.0.1:8888 instead of http://localhost:8888 to get this working. I'm now getting an error from Amazon:

<Error><Code>InvalidRequest</Code><Message>The authorization mechanism you have provided is not supported. Please use AWS4-HMAC-SHA256.

I hope I can figure that one out…

[ralph]

The error above was caused by the new AWS Frankfurt location being super strict. I tried creating a bucket in Ireland, now I get:

Caused by: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates

[ralph]

All S3 errors are gone when using a bucket in the US Standard region. Now that's where I am:

0:conduit-log-requests::: 127.0.0.1 [2014-11-21T14:35:37+01:00] Put /api/v1/crates/new - 1352ms 500: could not add crate `zomglol_hello_world` to the git repo
Caused by: [23] authentication required but no callback set

[alexcrichton]

Ok, I added some bits to the README about this, but let me know if anything is unclear!

[alexcrichton]

Oh I forgot to set up config.json... I may just add a script to do this!

[alexcrichton]

Script added!

[ralph]

Thank you thank you thank you, looking great! 😄

[metaclips]

Hello @ralph how were you able to generate your token locally