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Revision as of 11:16, 27 April 2008
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Setting up a production sever to run MX (and various other programs)
These notes document the present progress of setting up a server on a unconfigured and essentially empty machine. Note that additional software (see additional on wishlist) that mx does not require is being installed as well. If you already have a server (say OS X with apache) running the process should be significantly simplified. This process is ongoing now.
hardware
* An uninterruptable power supply (UPS) will help protect your computer from power spikes and outages.
operating system
ubuntu
I.e. like rails + apache setup from slicehost & unixmonkey
http://unixmonkey.net/?p=8 refers a lot to this article reg ubuntu: http://articles.slicehost.com/ uses Apache+Mongrel+mod_proxy_balancer config
ubuntu documentation:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Servers. has article on installing rails with apache using fastcgi although says not recommended it doesn't recommend any other way!
stuff to do (by far not a complete list)
* config linux with sudo * mysql and rails 2.02, ruby, gems * set up apache and php * apache virtual hosts * raid backup set up * Set bios to reboot at a power loss * performance config? * forward the port
applications to install wishlist
* rails * ruby * imagemagick * apache, or some other Rails capable server (list coming) * mysql in theory other engines could be used * php additional * perl additional * svn or trac? additional * fisheye additional * media wiki additional * wordpress additional
