Bundle on production

bundle install --without=test development

bundle will remember these settings so next time if you run "bundle install" it will set only production

Manage a fork of git repository - Redmine

Manage a fork of git repository - Redmine

Using redmine I want to maintain my own custom redmine , and still be able to update with latest changes from newer version.

I have forked the redmine repo , and created 2 local branches:

my_work - dvelopment branch with my changes

my_deploy - the version that is on production

We already have set-up the remote branches and we can see them using :

>git remote -v

origin git@github.com:haimlankry/redmine-1.git (fetch)
origin git@github.com:haimlankry/redmine-1.git (push)
upstream git://github.com/redmine/redmine.git (fetch)
upstream git://github.com/redmine/redmine.git (push)

The "origin" is my fork of the original git, located on the "upstream" remote.

first we will update from upstream to get the latest updates:

>git fetch upstream 

Re-basing 

We had before 2 branches, my_work and my_deploy, in my_work, we have some changes relative to an old version in the upstream (2.2-stable), we will take only our changes and rebase them on a newer version.
we should be in the my_work branch .
we can check before rebasing to see our changes only using:

>git log upstream/2.3-stable..HEAD

we should see only our changes listed

Then we do the rebase:
>git rebase upstream/2.3-stable

Now our my_work branch , has the new version (2.3-stable) and our changes applied as the last commits.

Deploy

We will override the my_deploy branch with the my_work version.

We first move to the my_deploy branch

>git co my_deploy 
Switched to branch 'my_deploy'
>git reset --hard my_work


Now we have the my_deploy branch with the latest version.
now we should updated the origin remote branch, with both branches changes.
we have to force push cause we changed the commit history.
>git push origin -f
...

To git@github.com:haimlankry/redmine-1.git
 + 60d222b...2ea745b my_deploy -> my_deploy (forced update)
 + 7ccf04b...2ea745b my_work -> my_work (forced update)

...

last step is to update the version on the remote server by pulling

production server

we should be in the my_deploy branch (only one on production)

stop the web server (sudo service apache2 stop)
git fetch origin my_deploy
git reset origin/my_deploy --hard
start the apache http

capistrano deploy and multistage

Just a check list :

cap deploy:setup - use for the first time
cap deploy:check - check that the system is ok and ready for deploy

multi stage example deploy.rb :

set :stages, %w(staging production)
set :default_stage, "staging"
require 'capistrano/ext/multistage'
# since :domain is defined in another file (staging.rb and production.rb),
# we need to delay its assignment until they're loaded
set(:domain) { "#{domain}" }
role(:web) { domain }

And in deploy/staging.rb
set :domain, '111.111.210.211'

set :user, "username"
set :deploy_to, "/home/rubyapps/#{application}"
set :rails_env, "staging"

Use Bitnami Redmine for deploy of my redmine version

I need to deploy Redmine on windows ,to minimize work and issues, I use Bitnami Redmine for windows installer.
I will update the installtion to use my own custom version of redmine , that will be stored on a remote git branch (currently github).

The steps

1. Install redmine stack from bitnami , make sure that every thing is working (browser), then stop all services of Redmine stack.
2.  Goto BitNami\RedmineStack\apps\redmine folder , rename the "htdocs" folder to "htdocs_org" and create a new blank "htdocs" folder.
3. In the blank "htdocs" folder , we will init a new git repo and link it to our remote branch by doing :

cd htdocs
git init
git remote add -t my_work -f origin git://github.com/haimlankry/redmine-1.git
git checkout my_work


At this stage you should have a full redmine project from your git, now will copy some data from the original folder.


4. Copy the folowing folders and files from "htdocs_org" to "htdocs" in the relevant location
root: .bundle, bin , Gemfile.lock 
config/database.yml configuration.rb and additional_environment.rb
tmp/ cache sessions and sockets folder
config\initializers\secret_token.rb

5. Add to the Gemfile the line: gem 'thin' #(if it is not allready in the gemfile)

Test your settings buy starting the thin server, (takes a while on windows) :
start mysql using the service manager utility (or any other way) then type:
bundle exec thin start -e production -p 3001 --prefix /redmine

This should start a thin webserver listens on port 3001 , you can check on the browser for :
http://localhost:3001/redmine
This should result in the redmine home page.

Thats it , now you can develop on your machine , push to git hub, then "git clone" on deploy to get latest update.

Git And ssh on server

Adding a user to existing server to have git access sup

$ sudo groupadd developers
$ sudo useradd -G developers -d /home/john -m -s /bin/bash john
$ sudo useradd -G developers -d /home/andrew -m -s /bin/bash andrew

$ sudo passwd john
$ sudo passwd andrew

connect users toserver withut pssword , using public key that is in the .ssh/authorized_keys ander the home user folder
Verify that user is owner of /home/username and .ssh and authrization_keys

cd .ssh
chmod og-rw authorized_keys
chmod a-x authorized_keys
cd ~
chmod 700 .ssh

the user public key should have strict access so we need to :

chmod u+rwx /home/ec2-user/.ssh/ -R

chmod a-rwx /home/ec2-user/.ssh/ -R ??? not sure

Install apache & passenger for rails on amazon linux

First we need to have apache and curl-dev installed  using root..
sudo -s
yum install httpd httpd-devel
yum install libcurl-devel
exit

# now install passenger , if you have problems with gemfiles , fix them first. (check bundle )
gem install passenger
passenger-install-apache2-module

if all goes good you should get instructions like this :
---------------------------------------------------------------
Please edit your Apache configuration file, and add these lines:

   LoadModule passenger_module /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-head@smifr/gems/passenger-3.0.12/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
   PassengerRoot /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-head@smifr/gems/passenger-3.0.12
   PassengerRuby /usr/local/rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-head@smifr/ruby

After you restart Apache, you are ready to deploy any number of Ruby on Rails
applications on Apache, without any further Ruby on Rails-specific
configuration!


<VirtualHost *:80>
      ServerName www.yourhost.com
      # !!! Be sure to point DocumentRoot to 'public'!
      DocumentRoot /somewhere/public  
      <Directory /somewhere/public>
         # This relaxes Apache security settings.
         AllowOverride all
         # MultiViews must be turned off.
         Options -MultiViews
      </Directory>
   </VirtualHost>

And that's it! You may also want to check the Users Guide for security and
optimization tips, troubleshooting and other useful information:

  /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-head@smifr/gems/passenger-3.0.12/doc/Users guide Apache.html

Enjoy Phusion Passenger, a product of Phusion (www.phusion.nl) :-)
http://www.modrails.com/
------------------------------
follow the instractions and update the httpd.conf file , to find it use the command :
apachectl -V

then restart apache using

apachectl -k restart

# After configuring httpd.conf the restart has an error, you need to provide more rights I did:

passenger-config --root
#Returns path_to_root
chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_content_t /path_to_root

403 error :
You should set permissions for the rails app , so apache can access these files
I am runing:
chmod 755 /home/ec2-user/ -R

If still not working ..
in file: /etc/sysconfig/selinux
change to SELinux=enforced to SELinux=disabled

install sphinx from source on ec2 linux

sphinx install needs my sql location .
download the sources and extract to folder then installed using :

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql51/
make
make install