Circle Blvd: Migration Guide

guide.txt

How to move Circle Blvd to a new server, a rough guide:

1. Setup CouchDB and Node
2. Use ssh to replicate. Something like this:

$ curl -X  POST http://localhost:5984/_replicate -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"source":"http://localhost:9000/circle-blvd","target":"http://localhost:9001/circle-blvd","create_target":true}'

$ curl -X  POST http://localhost:5984/_replicate -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"source":"http://localhost:9000/circle-blvd-sessions","target":"http://localhost:9001/circle-blvd-sessions","create_target":true}'

3. Copy the SSL certificates
4. If you're using the 'domain-name' setting, set that to null for the time being (using Futon).

5. Set up the crontab to match
6. Set up the backups

7. Test it out!

8. To update again before going live:

curl -X  POST http://localhost:5984/_replicate -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"source":"http://localhost:9000/circle-blvd","target":"http://localhost:9001/circle-blvd"}'
curl -X  POST http://localhost:5984/_replicate -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"source":"http://localhost:9000/circle-blvd-sessions","target":"http://localhost:9001/circle-blvd-sessions"}'