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.fc {
  direction: ltr;
  text-align: left; }
  .fc table {
    border-collapse: collapse;
    border-spacing: 0; }
  .fc .btn {
    line-height: 1.2em; }

html .fc {

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# --------------------------------------------------
# Setting up a Laravel app on dokku in a Vagrant box
# --------------------------------------------------

# First: cloning the dokku repo
$ git clone https://github.com/progrium/dokku
$ cd dokku

# Start, configure & provision a new vagrant box using the Vagrantfile from the repo
$ vagrant up

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Deploy your own PaaS!

Setting up Dokku with DigitalOcean and Namecheap

..or how I made my own heroku in a few hours for $3.98.

This write-up owes a great deal to dscape's Node.js Deployments with Docker, Dokku, & Digital Ocean, the dokku project itself, and the fine folks working on dokku's issues. I took dscape's article as a starting point when trying this out but found some details lacking so I documented my own process for getting dokku up and running.

1. Get a domain

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#Nginx Load Balancer Service For Core OS

Create a directory to manage using fleetctl for this service:

$ mkdir static

Create this file in static/nginx_lb.service

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# Sticky session module for nginx
# https://bitbucket.org/nginx-goodies/nginx-sticky-module-ng/
# nginx configure command: ./configure --with-http_ssl_module --add-module=../nginx-sticky-module-ng/ --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --with-http_gzip_static_module

upstream vida_node_server {
    sticky path=/;
    server 127.0.0.1:3000 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;
    server [server2]:3000 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;
}

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upstream haproxy {
  server 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

upstream stats {
	server 127.0.0.1:9999;
}

server {
	listen   80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied

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[Unit]
Description=App Redis Sidekick
Requires=docker.service
Requires=etcd.service

After=docker.service
After=etcd.service
After=app-redis.service
BindsTo=app-redis.service

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module BuilderStepHelpers

  def create_model(model_name, attributes={})
    send("create_#{model_name.gsub(' ','_')}",attributes)
  end

end
World do |world|
  world.extend BuilderStepHelpers
end

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#features/steps/users_steps.rb:

Given "I'm a logged in member" do
  @me = create_adult
  logged_in_as @me
end

#features/support/env.rb:

class Cucumber::Rails::World

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Why build a site? Why do your customers care?

The core purpose of a website is to help your customers answer the questions necessary to do business with you.

If your website is a series of answers to questions then the success of your site depends on what questions you answer--it's the questions and answers that show the customer you provide a service they're looking for, you're a good choice and that they should buy from you.

In general every customer has the following questions:

1. Who are you?
2. What do you offer?