Server Setup

These are the steps I took to set up the Railscasts site on a Linode with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installed.

Initial Setup

passwd
aptitude update
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
/usr/sbin/update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
aptitude safe-upgrade
aptitude full-upgrade

RVM Setup

aptitude install build-essential bison openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf
bash < <( curl -L http://bit.ly/rvm-install-system-wide )

User Setup

adduser rbates
usermod -aG rvm rbates
visudo # rbates   ALL=(ALL) ALL
mkdir /home/rbates/.ssh
chown -R rbates:rbates /home/rbates/.ssh
chmod 700 /home/rbates/.ssh
exit

On Local

scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub railscasts.com:~/.ssh/authorized_keys
ssh railscasts.com

Ruby Installation

echo [[ -s "/usr/local/lib/rvm" ]] && source "/usr/local/lib/rvm"' >> ~/.bashrc
rvm install 1.9.2
rvm use 1.9.2 --default

ZSH & Dotfiles

git clone git://github.com/ryanb/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
rake install
echo [[ -s "/usr/local/lib/rvm" ]] && source "/usr/local/lib/rvm"' >> ~/.localrc
sudo aptitude install zsh
chsh -s /bin/zsh

Apache & Passenger Install

aptitude install apache2 apache2.2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils libexpat1 ssl-cert libcurl4-openssl-dev apache2-prefork-dev libapr1-dev libaprutil1-dev
apache2ctl graceful
gem install passenger
passenger-install-apache2-module

Passenger Install

sudo passenger-install-apache2-module
sudo vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf # copy as instructed by installer
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart