Most of the necessary installs and configurations for setting up a News Cloud EC2 instance

News Cloud App Setup

# Update and install packages
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude  safe-upgrade
sudo aptitude install apache2 build-essential libapache2-mod-passenger linux-headers-generic git-core zlib1g-dev libmysqlclient-dev

# Install Latest Ruby
wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org//pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.2-p136.tar.gz
tar -xzf ruby-1.9.2-p136.tar.gz
rm -f ruby-1.9.2-p136.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.9.2-p136/
sudo ./configure
sudo make && sudo make install
cd ext/zlib
sudo ruby extconf.rb
sudo make && sudo make install

# Initialize ruby gems
sudo gem update --system
sudo gem install bundler

# Prepare server for News Cloud
# in /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default
#<VirtualHost *:80>
#	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
#	DocumentRoot /srv/www/newscloudcms/current/public
#	ErrorLog /srv/www/newscloudcms/shared/log/error.log
#	CustomLog /srv/www/newscloudcms/shared/log/access.log combined
#	LogLevel warn
#
#	<IfModule mod_passenger.c>
#		PassengerEnabled On
#		RailsEnv development  
#		PassengerHighPerformance On
#		PassengerMaxPoolSize 20
#		PassengerPoolIdleTime 0
#	</IfModule>
#
#	<Directory />
#		Options FollowSymLinks
#		AllowOverride None
#	</Directory>
#
#	<Directory /srv/www/>
#		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
#		AllowOverride None
#		Order allow,deny
#		allow from all
#	</Directory>
#
#</VirtualHost>

sudo mkdir -p /srv/www/newscloudcms
sudo chown ubuntu:ubuntu /srv/www/newscloudcms

# set up capistrano and run deploy:setup and cap deploy
# you will likely need to setup shared keys for GitHub
# and will need to make a request from the console of
# the server manually so the remote host fingerprint
# can be added to the known hosts file

sudo apache2ctl graceful