So I found myself running into Octopress over the last weekend and as much as I am normally a big PHP fanboy. I was drawn to the idea of what it does and how it works. It feels similar to the last website I ran which stored all the content in flat files and parsed them (textile) to the view. Octopress seems WAY more polished than I could ever create and feels so much nicer to use. All the files are stored on my own local desktop machine and are deployed using Rsync! How much better does it get. I create a post/page, populate it with content, then rsync it into place on the live server.
So, without further ado, here is the procedure used to get it up and running on Archlinux (Desktop) and Archlinux (Server).