Deploying a Rails 3 App with EC2 + S3 + Ubuntu + Capistrano + Passenger

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Deploying a Rails 3 App with EC2 + S3 + Ubuntu + Capistrano + Passenger
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EC2 Setup
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1 Launch New ec2 instance - ami-1634de7f
2 Create elastic IP [ELASTIC_IP] and associate it with instance
3 go to domain registrar DNS settings, @ and www to ELASTIC_IP
4 set the `:host` in `config/deploy.rb` to ELASTIC_IP


S3 Setup
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1 create buckets:
- application.com
- application.com_backup
 etc


Connect to server & make user to run app
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1 ssh-keygen, choose special name
2 ssh ubuntu@ELASTIC_IP -i ~/.ec2/applicationkey.pem
3 sudo su; useradd -d /home/application -m application; passwd application
4 as ubuntu or root, sudo visudo, arrow down to bottom and application  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
5 scp -i ~/.ec2/applicationkey.pem ~/.ssh/id_rsa_application.pub ubuntu@ELASTIC_IP:/home/ubuntu/.ssh/ (from local)
6 sudo mv ~/.ssh/id_rsa_application.pub /home/application/.ssh/authorized_keys
7 sudo chmod 600 /home/application/.ssh/authorized_keys
8 sudo chown application /home/application/.ssh/authorized_keys
9 now you can ssh application@ELASTIC_IP -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_application yay!
10 do above, then mkdir deploy


Install Shit
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install apache2-prefork-dev
sudo apt-get install exim4
sudo apt-get install git-core
sudo apt-get install irb
sudo apt-get install rdoc
sudo apt-get install ruby
sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev
sudo apt-get install rubygems
sudo apt-get install mysql
sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby

gem install rubygems-update
gem install passenger
gem install rake
gem install bundler (might need to manually build rubygems if version is not up to date)


Configure Exim4
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1 dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
-- internet site, sent directly via smtp
-- application.com
-- 127.0.0.1
-- other destinations: [blank]
-- relay: [blank]
-- relay: [blank]
-- dns minimal: no
-- delivery method: mbox
-- small files: no
-- root: root


Setup Passenger
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1 passenger-install-apache2-module
2 $ cd /etc/apache2/; a2enmod deflate; vi conf.d/passenger
	## passenger stuff might change with different version ##
	LoadModule passenger_module /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
	PassengerRoot /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0
	PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8


Setup Apache VHost
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$ vi sites-available/application
	<VirtualHost *:80>
   		ServerName application.com
   		DocumentRoot /home/application/deploy/current/public
   		AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript text/css application/x-javascript
		BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
   		BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
   		BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
   		SetEnv ENV_YOU_WANT_TO_SET this_is_the_val # optional
   		<Directory /somewhere/public>
			AllowOverride all
      			Options -MultiViews
   		</Directory>
	</VirtualHost>


Enable site
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$ sudo a2ensite application.com


Setup Deployment Credentials
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1 Change to application user
2  $ ssh-keygen -t dsa
3 copy id_dsa.pub to github repo > Admin > Deploy keys


Set up environment variables if necessary
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$ cat .ssh/environment
AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY_ID='KEYYY'
AMAZON_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='SECRETTT'

make sure /etc/ssh/sshd_config contains:
PermitUserEnvironment yes

Might have to restart ssh with  sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart


Deploy!
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Create the following directories if they don't exist:
	/home/application/deploy/releases
	/home/application/shared/log

TODO:
MySQL setup