production server?

[gentooza]

Hi everybody, and congrats for this amazing project!

Finally I've got the app running under development mode in a vps running Debian wheezy.
I had to tweak lot's of things I'll be glad to share in other issues if it can be useful for anybody else.

And now there is no docs about setting it under production.

My question, as I almost know nothing about rails apps, is: could I get it working by following some guides like this:?

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1949229/change-a-rails-application-to-production
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-rails-app-with-passenger-and-apache-on-ubuntu-14-04

Or there is any really professional method anywhere?

Thanks a lot!

[voodoorai2000]

Hello @gentooza!

Thanks for your interest in Consul.

Currently there are no production deployment docs (PRs are welcomed 😅)
Our current stack is Apache + Unicorn + Postgres + RVM + Capistrano. Nginx might be simpler to configure than Apache. Instead of those guides we recommend these ones:

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-with-rvm-on-ubuntu-16-04 (rvm)
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-rails-app-with-unicorn-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04 (nginx and unicorn)
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/deploying-a-rails-app-on-ubuntu-14-04-with-capistrano-nginx-and-puma (capistrano)

Let us know how it goes or if you have any other questions!

[gentooza]

great

In fact I used rvm also, so the guides I found didn't work (it seems passenger takes the 'official' (via apt-get) ruby version installed and not rvm's. giving some nice code errors in webpage)

But We don't use nginx either :-/, I'll try the guides to see what I can learn anyway.

Thanks!

[gentooza]

Hi, I think I've passenger correctly configured using rvm.
I've copied the whole consul folder inside a www-data folder, and I can see consul working with my webbroswer (yujuh!)

Could you give me some hints with the changes needed in database.yml and secrets.yml to have it working in production mode?

what I did:

gem install passenger
passenger-install-apache2-module

add at the end of /etc/apache2/apache2.cnf

LoadModule passenger_module /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.0/gems/passenger-5.0.30/buildout/apache2/mod_passenger.so
<IfModule mod_passenger.c>
        PassengerRoot /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.0/gems/passenger-5.0.30
        PassengerDefaultRuby /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.0/wrappers/ruby
</IfModule>

and in my virtualhost configuration file:

<VirtualHost *:80>

                DocumentRoot /var/www/<my domain>/home/plaza/consul/public
                ServerName <mydomain>
                ServerAlias www.<mydomain>
                ServerAdmin webmaster@<mydomain>

                <Directory "/var/www/<mydomain>/home/plaza/consul/public
                        RailsEnv development
                        Options FollowSymLinks
                        #only for apache apache >=2.4?
                        #Require all granted
                        AllowOverride none
                        Options -MultiViews
                        Order allow,deny
                        Allow from all
                </Directory>
</virtualHost>

mydomain field is what it means :-)
and the docRoot and directory is where I've saved consul, a folder of www-data group.

thanks!

pd: the guides didn't help. (ngingx and capistrano, unicorn... :-S)

[gentooza]

So, what is needed to make Consul running in production environment?
Some changes in database?
ssl?
sorry to ask again, but I'm sure we could create some more documentation about it also (as in configuration) :-D

[voodoorai2000]

Closed in favor of #1778