my.cnf @@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ # ################################################################### -What follows is the steps I went through when installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on a Gold VPS at the swedish hosting company GleSYS.se. The VPS has 1 GB of memory and 100 GB of disk space (see http://glesys.se/serverhotell/vps). I would like to thanks the kind folks at GleSYS for awesome support and for providing excellent hosting. +What follows is the steps I went through when installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on a Gold VPS at the swedish hosting company GleSYS.se. The VPS has 1 GB of memory and 100 GB of disk space (see http://glesys.se/serverhotell/vps). I would like to this opportunity to thank the kind folks at GleSYS for their awesome support and excellent hosting. -Those instructions assume familiarity with tools such as Linux, ssh, Ruby on Rails, Capistrano, Mongrel, and MySQL. They draw heavily on the excellent book "Deploying Rails Applications" by Ezra Zygmuntowicz. I strongly encourage you to check out the book if you haven't already. Like with all Pragmatic Bookshelf books, it can be conveniently downloaded as a PDF. +The instructions assume familiarity with tools such as Linux, ssh, Ruby on Rails, Capistrano, Mongrel, and MySQL. They draw heavily on the excellent book "Deploying Rails Applications" by Ezra Zygmuntowicz. I strongly encourage you to check out the book if you haven't already. Like with all Pragmatic Bookshelf books, it can be conveniently downloaded as a PDF. TODO: say something about what the resulting technology stack looks like: @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ monit --version ruby --version gem --version +# TODO: image +# change deploy password +# change mysql password +# change hostname +# change monit scripts + ################################################################### # # BASIC SERVER SETUP @@ -24,7 +30,7 @@ gem --version ################################################################### ############################ -# Change Root Password +# Set Root Password (if you haven't already) ############################ ssh root@<server-ip-number> @@ -123,8 +129,8 @@ sudo apt-get install ntp ############################ sudo hostname your-hostname -sudo emacs /etc/hostname sudo emacs /etc/hosts +sudo emacs /etc/hostname # Check hostname is correct hostname @@ -203,7 +209,7 @@ sudo apt-get install make sudo gem install mysql # Install a few gems used in Rails deployment -sudo gem install rake rails capistrano mongrel_cluster +sudo gem install --no-rdoc --no-ri rake rails capistrano mongrel_cluster # Install Subversion (not everyone uses Git, yet) sudo apt-get install subversion subversion-tools @@ -255,4 +261,12 @@ cd <path-to-your-local-rails-app> # http://svn.marklunds.com/my_app/config/deploy.rb cap deploy:setup +# Configure MySQL and create databases +ssh <name-of-your-server> +sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop +sudo cp /etc/mysql/my.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf.orig +sudo cp ~/rails-on-ubuntu/my.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf +sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start +mysqladmin -u root -pilwwsh2008 create my_app_production + ... TO BE CONTINUED ... README 3d49283b95007720588353e443aeb0d35104361a Peter Marklund peter_marklund@fastmail.fm http://github.com/peter/rails-on-ubuntu/commit/c883c64bf073f6c65e61f0534f1061ce48ed5420 c883c64bf073f6c65e61f0534f1061ce48ed5420 2008-08-08T08:56:10-07:00 2008-08-08T08:56:10-07:00 Added my.cnf a11485226f0c25d654f34d340838fa9fdf671a10 Peter Marklund peter_marklund@fastmail.fm