server installation guide.txt

Installing the production hosting environment on Ubuntu 12.04

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install curl
curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
rvm requirements
rvm install 2.1.2
rvm use 2.1.2 --default
ruby -v
rvm rubygems current
gem install passenger

Enable extra swap space if memory is less than 1024 MB

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=1024
sudo mkswap /swap
sudo swapon /swap
rvmsudo passenger-install-nginx-module

sudo nano /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
<TODO - add the changes to the config file to enable the app to run>

Install Postgres
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install python-software-properties
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ precise-pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/postgresql.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3 pgadmin3


Enable nginx as a service

wget -O init-deb.sh http://library.linode.com/assets/660-init-deb.sh
sudo mv init-deb.sh /etc/init.d/nginx
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx
sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f nginx defaults
sudo service nginx start

Do the following to check that postgres has installed
locate postgresql
psql -V

Create the database user that the app will be using
sudo su - postgres
createuser --pwprompt open311

Ctrl+D to log out of the postgres user account

After creating the database user you need to give them database creation access rights:

sudo -u postgres psql
ALTER ROLE open311 WITH CREATEDB;

Install Git

sudo apt install git
sudo apt-get install git
git --version

sudo service nginx restart

Set up the environment variable to store the database password

export OPEN311SERVER_DATABASE_PASSWORD='xxxx'
echo $OPEN311SERVER_DATABASE_PASSWORD

The following is required for the Postgres pg gemfile
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev