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Using apache
No, this does NOT work. It's left as a starting point for those brave who might make it work.
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##General
This page covers the steps which makes diaspora server running on port 3000. Besides this, most users have a need to making this server available to the outside world on port 80. This is not covered at this point. Personally, I just forwarded port 80 on my router to port 3000 on my box.
You can get the same basic behavior that nginx proxy uses from the proxy_balancer Apache mod. With this you can put in a rewrite rule for /diaspora and send it to port 3000. You would still need port 8080 open for the EM server, but there is no reason a basic proxy mechanic shouldn't work. I haven't tried it, but it's the path least fraught with peril.
##Passenger A common way to run Rails apps on Apache is the Passenger apache module. See http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide.html
There is no Fedora passenger rpm ATM, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470696
See also Installing on Ubuntu Apache
To setup apache to run diaspora:
sudo gem install passenger
sudo yum install apr-devel httpd-devel rubygem-rake
sudo passenger-install-apache2-module
Create a new file /etc/httpd/conf.d/passenger.conf with content as given from passenger-install-apache2-module. For me, this was:
LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.15/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.15
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby
useradd -md /var/diaspora diaspora
su - diaspora
chmod 755 .
git clone http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora.git master
cd master
bundle install --deployment
mkdir tmp
cp config/app_config.yml.example app_config.yml
! Edit app_config.yml, fix at least hostname
Create a virtual http server for the diaspora app by appending something like this to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (using your own servername for host.domain.tld):
Listen 3000
<virtualhost *:3000>
ServerName host.domain.tld
DocumentRoot /var/diaspora/master
RailsEnv development
RackEnv development
<Directory /var/diaspora/master/public>
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</virtualhost>
Restart server using 'server httpd restart'.
Access the server on http://host.domain.tld:3000
- At this point, adding friends from this server to other servers fails with a "Connection timeout" message.
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