ericandrewlewis

Setting up a WordPress site on AWS

This tutorial walks through setting up AWS infrastructure for WordPress, starting at creating an AWS account. We'll manually provision a single EC2 instance (i.e an AWS virtual machine) to run WordPress using Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL.

This tutorial assumes you're relatively comfortable on the command line and editing system configuration files. It is intended for folks who want a high-level of control and understanding of their infrastructure. It will take about half an hour if you don't Google away at some point.

If you experience any difficulties or have any feedback, leave a comment. 🐬

Coming soon: I'll write another tutorial on a high availability setup for WordPress on AWS, including load-balancing multiple application servers in an auto-scaling group and utilizing RDS.

mhayes

group :assets do
  gem 'sass-rails',   '~> 3.2.3'
  gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 3.2.1'
  
  # Add these gems
  gem 'compass-rails', '~> 1.0.3'
  gem 'zurb-foundation', '~> 3.0.9'
end

mhayes

RAILS_ROOT = File.expand_path(File.dirname(File.dirname(__FILE__)))

after "deploy:update_code", "deploy:link_config_files"
before "deploy:assets:precompile", "deploy:link_config_files"

namespace :deploy do
  desc "Symlink production config files"
  task :link_config_files do
    config_files = Dir.glob(Pathname.new(RAILS_ROOT).join("config", "*.yml.sample"))
    config_files.each do |file|

mhayes

# rails new <APP_NAME> -d mysql -m rails_template.rb

gem "zurb-foundation"
gem "backbone-on-rails", "~> 0.9.2"
gem "mysql2"
gem "jbuilder"
gem "factory_girl_rails", "~> 1.7.0", :group => [:development, :test]
gem "mocha", "~> 0.10.5", :require => false, :group => [:test]
gem "capybara", :group => [:test]

sasha-id

# Copy:
# /etc/init/delayed_job.conf
# Execute:
# ln -s /lib/init/upstart-job /etc/init.d/delayed_job
# Change user name

description "Start up the delayed_job service"

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [06]

mhayes

import sublime, sublime_plugin
import os

class DetectFileTypeCommand(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
  """ Detects current file type if the file's extension isn't conclusive """
  """ Modified for Ruby on Rails and Sublime Text 2 """
  """ Original pastie here: http://pastie.org/private/kz8gtts0cjcvkec0d4quqa """

  def on_load(self, view):
    filename = view.file_name()

mhayes

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IPrism

#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          god
# Required-Start:    $all
# Required-Stop:     $network $local_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start the god monitoring processes
# Description:       Enable god at boot time.
### END INIT INFO

czottmann

worker:     QUEUE=* bundle exec rake environment resque:work 
scheduler:  bundle exec rake environment resque:scheduler

mhayes

component {
  function init(required string configFile) {
    variables.configFile = arguments.configFile;
    variables.loadSections = ["common", CGI.SERVER_NAME];
    
    return getConfig();
  }
  
  private function getConfig() {
    var config = StructNew();