This is a guide how to deploy and run Service Stack application on Ubuntu Linux. #Quick Start

Deploy your application to /var/www/hello-app folder. If you don't know how to do this please go to Step 1

Then run following commands in console. Please note that the install.sh script is considered to be run on clean Ubuntu installation, if you have already configured nginx or apache sites on the machine you might be interested in manual configuration which is described in Step 2 and Step 3.

cd ~
curl -sL https://github.com/ServiceStackApps/mono-server-config/raw/master/install.sh --output install.sh
source install.sh

The script will ask you to set up site settings. You have to fill the site name as your domain name or IP address of the server, you can leave other parameters by default (use ENTER for it).

After installation completes check the site is working properly by opening http://www.yoursitedomain.com/metadata in browser.

#Step 1: Create Ubuntu Virtual Machine On Azure

Login to Microsoft Azure and click on Add button in Virtual Machines pane

In new opened pane type Ubuntu Server in filter string then select Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS and click button Create

To see the rest of the creation process follow the link Create Ubuntu Virtual Machine On Azure

#Step 2: Build and Deploy Application

Create Project from ServiceStack Blank template. If you don't have ServiceStack templates in Visual Studio, you should install ServiceStack Visual Studio extension first.

Publish it into directory

Upload content of the published directory to your linux server into ~/hello-app directory. You can use WinSCP or other scp client to do this.

##Option 1: Upload Using Script

Download deploy.bat and run it

deploy.bat C:\Projects\SSOnLinuxDeploy www.yourserver.com

Change directory to the directory where you deployed ServiceStack application and change www.yourserver.com to the ip or host name of your linux server.

Script will ask you to input user name and password. The files will be uploaded to the ~/hello-app directory

Then login to your linux server and run the commands:

sudo mkdir -P /var/www
sudo cp -R ~/hello-app /var/www/

Deployment is done.

##Option 2: Upload Using Interface

Click "New" to open new connection to your linux server.

Type your server ip, user and password or use private key and click "Login"

Select folder where ServiceStack solution was deployed on the left pane and your user home folder on the right pane.

Create folder 'hello-app' in (using F7 key on the right pane)

Select all files in deployment folder and copy them to ~/hello-app folder on the server.

Login to your linux server via SSH and copy files to /var/www directory

sudo mkdir -p /var/www
sudo cp -R ~/hello-app /var/www

#Step 3: Install mono, nginx and HyperFastCGI

To run ServiceStack application on Linux server you need to install mono, nginx and hyperfastcgi server. Connect to your server via ssh and run these commands in terminal

  #installing mono
  sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF
  echo "deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian wheezy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-xamarin.list
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install -y mono-complete
  #installing nginx
  sudo apt-get install -y nginx
  #installing HyperFastCGI
  cd ~
  #Uncomment next line if you use Ubuntu 15.10. libtool-bin package does not exists on Ubuntu 14.04
  #sudo apt-get install -y libtool-bin
  sudo apt-get install -y git autoconf automake libtool make libglib2.0-dev libevent-dev
  git clone https://github.com/xplicit/hyperfastcgi
  cd hyperfastcgi
  ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install

#Step 4: Configure nginx and HyperFastCGI

Download and copy configs

  curl -sL https://github.com/ServiceStackApps/mono-server-config/raw/master/nginx-config/hello-app.conf --output hello-app.conf
  curl -sL https://github.com/ServiceStackApps/mono-server-config/raw/master/hfc-config/hfc.config --output hfc.config
  sudo cp hello-app.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/
  sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/hello-app.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
  sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default     
  sudo mkdir -p /etc/hyperfastcgi
  sudo mkdir -p /var/log/hyperfastcgi
  sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/log/hyperfastcgi
  sudo cp hfc.config /etc/hyperfastcgi

You need to edit /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params file

  sudo nano /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params

Find parameters SCRIPT_FILENAME and PATH_INFO. If you have such parameters in config file, remove the lines or mark them as comments using hash sign #

#fastcgi_param	SCRIPT_FILENAME		$request_filename;

When you end editing press Ctrl+X and press 'Y' to save changes and exit from editor.

Then you need to change server name in configs to your server name. This can be domain name like www.yourdomain.com or an IP address if you don't have a domain yet. Open nginx config for editing:

  sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/hello-app.conf

Then find and change line server_name hello-app; to server_name www.yourdomain.com;

Restart nginx after changes

  sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart

Change server name in hyperfastCGI config too.

  sudo nano /etc/hyperfastcgi

Find and change line <vhost>hello-app</vhost> to host name.

If you using Ubuntu 14.04 install upstart scripts

 cd ~/hfc-install/hyperfastcgi/samples/ubuntu-startup/upstart && sudo install-service.sh

For Ubuntu 15.04 and higher install systemd scripts

 cd ~/hfc-install/hyperfastcgi/samples/ubuntu-startup/systemd && sudo install-service.sh

#Step 5: Run the application

Ubuntu 14.04

  sudo start hyperfastcgi

Ubuntu 15.04+

  sudo systemctl start hyperfastcgi.service

#Step 6: Check access to web services

Open in browser http://www.yoursitedomain.com/metadata and check availability of services.