Ed Rivas jerivas

[CASE 1] Deploying to a brand new server:

Get your sever. Anything that grants you root access works. VPS's like those from Digital Ocean work great and are cheap.
Fill the FABRIC dictionary in local_settings.py. For SSH_USER provide any username you want (not root), and the fabfile can create it for you.
Run fab secure. You simply need to know the root password to your VPS. The new user will be created and you can SSH with that from now on (if needed).
Run fab all. It will take a while, but after this your Mezzanine site will be live.

Notice that not even once you had to manually SSH into your VPS. Note: some server providers need you to login as root once to change the default password they give you. It should be the only time you are required to SSH into the sever.

[CASE 2] If you already have a server, and you already have created a non-root user with sudo privileges:

Useful commands

Bunch of random useful commands I've encountered/put together.

Use Liquid Prompt (useful bundle of shell customizations)

https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt

Find files by extension and convert newlines with dos2unix

find . -regex ".*\.\(html\|css\|js\|scss\)" | xargs dos2unix

Extract plain text from PSD

Bringing websites back up after server migrations

Hello! I created a quick guide to fix websites after a migration. Depending on the application type, the steps will differ.

Webfaction Django app

A regular Django / Apache app created from the control panel. Generally the only thing required is to reinstall the database driver (for either MySQL or Postgres) in the virtualenv. The virtualenv is a folder in the application directory, usually named

	#!/bin/bash

	# INSTALADOR DE MAGIC
	# Instala los prerequisitos, descarga la versión de desarrollo,
	# la compila y la instala para todos los usuarios.
	# También descarga e incluye los archivos de tecnologías.
	# Todo queda almacenado en la carpeta "magic" en la carpeta de usuario.

	# USO
	# 1. Descargar el script en una ubicación de fácil acceso (carpeta de usuario)

	*.pyc
	*.pyo
	*.db
	.DS_Store
	.coverage
	*.sublime-project
	*.sublime-workspace
	*~

	// Incluir la librería de Encoder
	// http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_Encoder.html
	#include <Encoder.h>

	// Inicializar un encoder conectado a los pines 2 y 3
	Encoder encoder(2, 3);

	// Variables para almacenar valores de encoder y ADC
	long enc_old = 0;
	int adc_now = 0;

	#!/bin/bash

	# INSTALADOR DE ALLIANCE
	# USO
	# 1. Descargar el script en una ubicación de fácil acceso (carpeta de usuario)
	# 2. Dar permiso de ejecución:
	# $ chmod +x instalar_alliance.sh
	# 3. Ejecutar
	# $ ./instalar_alliance.sh
	# 4. Otorgar la contraseña si es necesario para tareas de superusuario

	from __future__ import print_function

	import os
	import tinify

	tinify.key = "" # Fill your developer key here
	exts = ("jpg", "png", "jpeg")
	basewidth = 1500
	files = [f for f in os.listdir(".") if os.path.isfile(f) and f.endswith(exts)]

	// http://n33.co/2013/03/23/browser-on-jquery-19x-for-legacy-ie-detection
	jQuery.browser={};
	(function() {
	jQuery.browser.msie = false;
	jQuery.browser.version = 0;
	if(navigator.userAgent.match(/MSIE ([0-9]+)\./)) {
	jQuery.browser.msie = true;
	jQuery.browser.version = RegExp.$1;
	}
	})();

	var classes = ["style1", "style2"];
	$("element").on("click", function(event) {
	// Don't execute if the event is bubbling from a child node
	if (event.target !== this) return;
	var $el = $(this);
	$.each(classes, function(i, klass) {
	if ($el.hasClass(klass)) {
	$el.removeClass(klass)
	// Add the next class (if any)
	if (i < classes.length - 1) $el.addClass(classes[i + 1]);