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Installing on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server

This guide will bootstrap newscloud from a minimal ubuntu server install.

Update Your System

If necessary, update your system:

sudo apt-get update

Base Utilities

Replace vim-nox with your editor of choice.

sudo apt-get install ssh git-core vim-nox

Base Ruby Dependencies

Get ruby up and running

sudo apt-get install ruby build-essential libopenssl-ruby ruby1.8-dev irb rubygems

Add rubygems executables to your path

export PATH=/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin:$PATH

Update rubygems

sudo gem install rubygems-update
sudo `which update_rubygems`

Set your rails environment variable if need be

export RAILS_ENV=development

Install MySQL

Install mysql

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysql-ruby libmysqlclient-dev

Create a newscloud database and user

mysql -u root -p

create database n2_development;
grant ALL on n2_development.* to n2db@localhost identified by 'SOME SECURE PASSWORD';

Install Redis

sudo apt-get install redis-server

Install Miscellaneous Dependencies

Install nokogiri dependencies

sudo apt-get install libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

Install curl dependencies

sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-openssl-dev

Install imagemagick

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Install Newscloud

Create a directory for where newscloud and pull from github. Make Sure to checkout release 3.

mkdir src
cd src/
git clone git://github.com/newscloud/n2.git
cd n2
git checkout --track -b release3 origin/release3

Configure your database with the settings you created earlier in mysql.

cp config/database.yml.sample config/database.yml
vim config/database.yml

Register a facebook application

Configure facebooker with the keys from your facebook application You will need to have a facebook developer application, either:

NOTE::

  • You must set your canvas url to end in /iframe/, ie http://my.site.com/iframe/
  • However, when you set your config files you only want to use http://my.site.com
  • This is used internally to allow the use of a facebook canvas app and an external web pages
  • Other settings of note are:
    • Canvas Type = Iframe
    • Iframe Size = Auto-resize

Add your facebook settings to facebooker.yml

cp config/facebooker.yml.sample config/facebooker.yml
vim config/facebooker.yml

Install required rubygems

First install the bundler gem

sudo gem install bundler

Use bundler to install the required gems

bundle install

Bootstrap the Newscloud System

bundle exec rake n2:setup

Launch Newscloud

Start the server

bundle exec ruby script/server

Start the resque worker and resque scheduler for background and scheduled tasks.

QUEUE=* bundle exec rake resque:work
bundle exec rake resque:scheduler INITIALIZER_PATH=config/initializers/resque.rb