New rails server for chyld.net

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# new rails server for chyld.net
# amazon allows you to create external EBS volumes that automatically attach to your EC2 instance
# 8 GB root device for application & 50 GB EBS for database

ssh -i ~/Documents/ssh-keys/chyldnet.pem [email protected]
# Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-25-virtual x86_64)

# mounts /dev/sdf to /dev/xvdf (ubuntu internal name is different)
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/xvdf

# make a directory to mount on
sudo mkdir /data

# edit fstab file
sudo vi /etc/fstab
/dev/xvdf /data auto noatime 0 0

# manually mount
sudo mount -a

# check for successful mount
df -H
# /dev/xvdf        54G  927M   50G   2% /data

# pre rails install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install tcl8.5
sudo apt-get install libreadline6 libreadline6-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install git

# install rails
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails

# needed for sqlite3
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

# install node.js
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs npm

# install passenger and apache
gem install passenger
sudo apt-get install apache2-mpm-prefork
sudo apt-get install apache2-prefork-dev
passenger-install-apache2-module

# edit apache2.conf file (put at bottom)
sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
LoadModule passenger_module /home/ubuntu/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/passenger-3.0.15/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /home/ubuntu/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/passenger-3.0.15
PassengerRuby /home/ubuntu/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p194/ruby

# edit virtual host file
sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerAdmin [email protected]
  # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, alert, emerg.
  LogLevel info
  ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
  ServerName chyld.net
  RailsEnv production
  DocumentRoot /data/rails/chyld/public    
  <Directory /data/rails/chyld/public>
    AllowOverride all
    Options -MultiViews
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

# make rails directory
cd /data
sudo mkdir rails
sudo chown ubuntu:ubuntu rails
cd rails
rails new chyld

# start apache
sudo service apache2 restart

# install postgresql
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.1

# change data directory
sudo vi /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf
data_directory = '/data/postgres/db'            # use data in another directory

# create data directory
cd /data
mkdir postgres
sudo chown postgres:postgres postgres
sudo su - postgres
cd /data/postgres
mkdir db

# drop old cluster and create a new one
sudo su - postgres
pg_dropcluster --stop 9.1 main
rm -rf /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main
pg_createcluster 9.1 main -l /data/postgres/log/postgres.log -d /data/postgres/db --start

# setting up a user
sudo su - postgres
createuser -P dbuser
exit

# setup login permissions
sudo vi /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/pg_hba.conf
local   all             all                                     peer
# - to -
local   all             all                                     md5

# restart db
sudo service postgresql restart