Alright, I'm about to re-deploy my blog onto a server that I've gone in with (with about 6 other friends). It's a Debian box located across the pond, in Germany. I've logged into the box once to set up my shell environment, but otherwise haven't done anything special to get Rails cooking and my blog deployed. I'll document the steps it takes me from now to having my blog deployed. I hope this helps at least a handful of people somehow. Oh, and I'm timing myself, because I only have about an hour (it's 9:41pm). Ready? Go!
Hmm, might be logging in to this box alot.. better set up keys:
(Uh oh, just lost some time. I decided it I'm going to do this, then just to do it. I logged into GoDaddy and tollerated their interface long enough to point blog.tupleshop.com to my IP on the German box, that I affectionately call "hosten boxen.")
Log into box, look around... create a dir named ".ssh":
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rob@mac:~ $ ssh rob@85.10.241.146 rob@85.10.241.146's password: rob@unicron:~$ rob@unicron:~$ mkdir .ssh rob@unicron:~$ ls -al .ssh/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 rob 4096 Mar 13 06:00 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 rob 4096 Mar 13 06:00 ../ |
Get out and push up my key:
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rob@unicron:~$ exit logout Connection to 85.10.241.146 closed. rob@mac:~ $ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh rob@85.10.241.146 "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys2" rob@85.10.241.146's password: rob@mac:~ $ |
Smooth sailing from here.
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$ alias blog='ssh rob@85.10.241.146' rob@mac:~ $ blog rob@unicron:~$ |
Okay, I know I have Ruby 1.8.5 because my friend knew I would need it. I also know I have Apache 2.2.3 because I had asked about that too. This is good. It means I can use mod_proxy_balancer to manage request being sent back to my Mongrel cluster. Let's see if that module is enable:
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rob@unicron:~$ cd /etc/apache2/ rob@unicron:/etc/apache2$ ls mods-available/*balanc* mods-available/proxy_balancer.load rob@unicron:/etc/apache2$ ls mods-enabled/*balanc* ls: mods-enabled/*balanc*: No such file or directory |
So I enable it, with:
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rob@unicron:/etc/apache2$ sudo a2enmod proxy_balancer Password: Enabling proxy as a dependency This module is already enabled! Enabling cache as a dependency Module cache installed; run /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload to enable. Module proxy_balancer installed; run /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload to enable. rob@unicron:/etc/apache2$ sudo apache2ctl restart |
Now, set up http.conf:
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rob@unicron:/etc/apache2/sites-available$ sudo cp default tupleshop.com rob@unicron:/etc/apache2/sites-available$ |
For now (until DNS propagates) I'll set this up on port 8080:
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rob@unicron:/etc/apache2/sites-available$ cat tupleshop.com Listen 85.10.241.146:8080 <Proxy balancer://prncluster> # cluster members BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:4000 BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:4001 </Proxy> ProxyRequests Off <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> <VirtualHost 85.10.241.146:8080> ServerName blog.tupleshop.com ServerAdmin webmaster@tupleshop.com ProxyPass / balancer://prncluster/ ProxyPassReverse / balancer://prncluster/ </VirtualHost> |
Then, enable the site:
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unicron:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# ln -s ../sites-available/tupleshop.com 001-tupleshop.com unicron:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# vi 001-tupleshop.com |
Have Ruby but need gems:
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rob@unicron:~$ cd /usr/local/src/ rob@unicron:/usr/local/src$ sudo wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17190/rubygems-0.9.2.tgz rob@unicron:/usr/local/src$ sudo tar xvzf rubygems-0.9.2.tgz rob@unicron:/usr/local/src$ cd rubygems-0.9.2 rob@unicron:/usr/local/src/rubygems-0.9.2$ sudo ruby setup.rb |
Okay, now get Rails:
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rob@unicron:~$ sudo gem install rails -y ... Successfully installed rails-1.2.2 |
oh, and Mongrel & mongrel_cluster:
rob@unicron:~$ sudo gem install Mongrel |
Crap! No make?? no gcc? Alright... Look online for Ben (path of least resistance):
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[10:34] RobO> ah!@ [10:34] RobO> no gcc [10:34] RobO> f**k [10:34] RobO> :) [10:34] BenB> looks like gcc-4.1 is on there? [10:34] RobO> oh [10:34] RobO> need some nice symlinks [10:35] BenB> yea... cause you gotta do gcc-4.1 [10:35] RobO> make too [10:35] RobO> scripts use them [10:35] BenB> wait [10:35] BenB> nevermind [10:35] BenB> hit gcc [10:35] BenB> fine now [10:35] BenB> that was weird [10:35] BenB> I used aptitude install gcc [10:35] BenB> and it made links to the 4.1 install or something [10:36] RobO> and make? [10:36] RobO> need that to [10:36] BenB> done [10:36] BenB> weird, it made links for that too [10:36] RobO> heh [10:36] RobO> cool |
Okay, rockin' now. Again, get Mongrel:
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rob@unicron:~$ sudo gem install Mongrel ... rob@unicron:~$ sudo gem install mongrel_cluster Successfully installed mongrel_cluster-0.2.1 |
Get the source, Luke:
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rob@unicron:~$ sudo mkdir /var/www/blog.tupleshop.com rob@unicron:~$ sudo chown rob /var/www/blog.tupleshop.com/ rob@unicron:~$ cd /var/www/blog.tupleshop.com/ ... |
Uh oh... tried to "svn up" and looks like svn has not been configured "--with-ssl". I'll just scp 'till we get that sorted out:
$ scp -r /var/www/mephisto-blog rob@85.10.241.146:/var/www/blog.tupleshop.com |
My outbound dsl speed is sloow. This takes a while. While I wait, I'll set up MySQL:
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rob@unicron:~$ sudo su - unicron:~# mysql |
More MySQL:
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mysql> create database mephisto_prod; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> grant all on mephisto_prod.* to UUSSEERR@'localhost' identified by 'PPAASSWWOORRDD'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) |
Hmm, still waiting on the 'scp' command. Sending files is sloooow. But, after all, this is why I joined the group to get on the beefy remote server with unlimited bandwidth.
Well, the good news is that the DNS (blog.tupleshop.com) has propagated. :)
Okay, dump and move over my Mephisto database:
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root@teak:~# mysqldump mephisto_prod > mephisto_prod_3-12-2007
root@teak:~# scp mephisto_prod_3-12-2007 rob@85.10.241.146:~ |
Add some MySQL default login info (into .my.cnf) and load up the data:
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rob@unicron:~$ vi .my.cnf
rob@unicron:~$ mysql < mephisto_prod_3-12-2007 |
Let's see how Apache is doing (I don't find 'lsof' so I install it.):
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unicron:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# aptitude install lsof unicron:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# lsof -i -P | grep 8080 apache2 5753 root 5u IPv4 23876 TCP 85-10-241-146.clients.your-server.de:8080 (LISTEN) apache2 5754 www-data 5u IPv4 23876 TCP 85-10-241-146.clients.your-server.de:8080 (LISTEN) apache2 5755 www-data 5u IPv4 23876 TCP 85-10-241-146.clients.your-server.de:8080 (LISTEN) apache2 5756 www-data 5u IPv4 23876 TCP 85-10-241-146.clients.your-server.de:8080 (LISTEN) apache2 5757 www-data 5u IPv4 23876 TCP 85-10-241-146.clients.your-server.de:8080 (LISTEN) apache2 5758 www-data 5u IPv4 23876 TCP 85-10-241-146.clients.your-server.de:8080 (LISTEN) apache2 5759 www-data 5u IPv4 23876 TCP 85-10-241-146.clients.your-server.de:8080 (LISTEN) |
Cool, so Apache is listening as expected. Let's get the Mongrel cluster started:
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rob@unicron:/var/www$ sudo chown -R www-data:staff blog.tupleshop.com/ rob@unicron:/var/www$ sudo chmod -R 775 blog.tupleshop.com/ |
Set up the mongrel_cluster config file:
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rob@unicron:/var/www/blog.tupleshop.com$ cat config/mongrel_cluster.yml user: www-data cwd: /var/www/blog.tupleshop.com port: "4000" environment: production group: www-data address: 127.0.0.1 pid_file: log/mongrel.pid servers: 2 |
Finially, start the mongrels:
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rob@unicron:/var/www/blog.tupleshop.com$ sudo mongrel_rails cluster::start Starting 2 Mongrel servers... |
Verify it's they are really running:
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rob@unicron:/var/www/blog.tupleshop.com$ sudo lsof -i -P | grep mongrel mongrel_r 6003 www-data 3u IPv4 28127 TCP localhost:4000 (LISTEN) mongrel_r 6006 www-data 3u IPv4 28133 TCP localhost:4001 (LISTEN) |
Good. Now check http://blog.tupleshop.com:8080/ in a browser...
It's looks good... except for that lame port. Let's fix that:
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unicron:/etc/apache2# cat sites-available/tupleshop.com <Proxy balancer://prncluster> # cluster members BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:4000 BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:4001 </Proxy> ProxyRequests Off <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> <VirtualHost 85.10.241.146:*> ServerName blog.tupleshop.com ServerAdmin webmaster@tupleshop.com ProxyPass / balancer://prncluster/ ProxyPassReverse / balancer://prncluster/ </VirtualHost> |
and restart Apache:
rob@unicron:~$ sudo apache2ctl restart |
Let me just make sure that I'm really getting all the way to Germany:
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$ traceroute blog.tupleshop.com traceroute to blog.tupleshop.com (85.10.241.146), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 1.475 ms 0.738 ms 0.684 ms 2 69-12-146-1.dsl.static.sonic.net (69.12.146.1) 10.795 ms 10.305 ms 9.253 ms 3 105.at-2-2-0.gw4.200p-sf.sonic.net (69.12.242.29) 14.572 ms 10.127 ms 11.029 ms 4 0.as0.gw3.200p-sf.sonic.net (64.142.0.225) 9.857 ms 9.760 ms 14.225 ms 5 200.ge-1-2-0.gw2.equinix-sj.sonic.net (64.142.0.210) 12.632 ms 11.456 ms 11.177 ms 6 gigabitethernet1-0.gw1.sjc7.alter.net (157.130.214.177) 11.811 ms 11.448 ms 11.932 ms 7 pos1-0.xr2.sjc7.alter.net (152.63.53.194) 11.469 ms 12.052 ms 11.416 ms 8 0.so-7-0-0.xl2.scl2.alter.net (152.63.48.1) 13.729 ms 13.832 ms 13.154 ms 9 0.so-7-0-0.br1.scl2.alter.net (152.63.57.101) 12.232 ms 14.482 ms 16.716 ms 10 sl-bb20-sj-6-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.1) 16.736 ms 13.101 ms 14.062 ms 11 sl-bb23-sj-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.194) 18.569 ms 17.817 ms 14.657 ms 12 sl-bb25-rly-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.10) 90.650 ms 90.360 ms 90.277 ms 13 sl-bb24-rly-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.14.149) 122.399 ms 100.446 ms 267.436 ms 14 sl-st22-ash-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.189) 91.498 ms 88.574 ms 91.257 ms 15 sl-tisca1-3-0.sprintlink.net (144.223.246.30) 90.395 ms 87.782 ms 87.099 ms 16 so-4-0-0.fra10.ip.tiscali.net (213.200.82.5) 174.162 ms 174.821 ms 178.150 ms 17 hetzner-gw.ip.tiscali.net (213.200.86.90) 183.653 ms 188.186 ms 190.110 ms 18 hos-bb2.juniper2.rz6.hetzner.de (213.239.240.141) 184.168 ms 182.178 ms 181.215 ms 19 et.2.16.rs3k27.rz6.hetzner.de (213.239.242.136) 183.679 ms 182.039 ms 182.089 ms 20 85-10-241-146.clients.your-server.de (85.10.241.146) 182.651 ms 182.802 ms 182.692 ms |
Yup, and hitting it in browser shows everything is running find.
So, that's it. I'm done. Obviously, there's much more I can and will do. I can get svn working and set up capistrano, but for now, I've got to hit the sack (11:30pm). Looks like I missed my 1 hour goal, but I got side tracked a couple of times. That's okay. :)
Opps! Spoke too soon. In trying to log into the admin area of Mephisto and I realize that I was just getting static, cached pages. I check the logs (the Rails logs) and see that there is a MySQL problem:
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No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock /var/www/blog.tupleshop.com/config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:107:in `initialize' |
Hmm, I forgot to install the mysql gem. I'll do that now:
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rob@unicron:~$ sudo aptitude install libmysql-ruby1.8 rob@unicron:~$ irb irb(main):001:0> require 'mysql' => true |
Okay, *now* everything is running. Time: 11:42pm. (Time for bed.)
Hope this helps you.
