INSTALL.md

Installation on heroku

1. Sign up for a Heroku account.

2. Add the Bigwig addon.

3. Install the Heroku toolbelt locally.

4. Pick an app name (HEROKU_APP in the below).

5. Clone the combo repository (local path to this clone is LOCAL_REPO below).

6. Run these commands:

    heroku apps:create HEROKU_APP
    cd LOCAL_REPO
    git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:HEROKU_APP.git
    git push heroku master
    heroku ps:scale web=1
    heroku ps:scale archivist=1
    heroku open
   

Installation on fresh install of Ubuntu Linux 14.04 and Postgres

AWS: set up RDS Postgres instance and EC2 Ubuntu instance

Postgres:

Create user called combo createuser combo Create database called combo createdb combo Create facts table in combo psql combo Paste "CREATE TABLE facts ( id serial primary key, topic character varying(255), ts timestamp without time zone, content json );" Give combo user access to facts table "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON facts TO combo;" (at the psql prompt)

On EC2 instance:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/douglassquirrel/combo.git
cd combo/install
./install.sh
./test-rabbit.py localhost
./test-postgres.py [postgres host]

Then from remote machine

./test-rabbit.py [host]
./test-postgres.py [postgres host]

Installation on OS X

This is intended for local development, not a production server

Install Homebrew (if you somehow haven't) Read http://brew.sh/ for details Install Postgres brew install postgresql Start Postgres postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres & Install RabbitMQ brew install rabbitmq Start RabbitMQ /usr/local/opt/rabbitmq/sbin/rabbitmq-server &

Then follow the instructions above to setup Postgres