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Webserver with Debian 5 (Lenny)

This guide describes, how to install a web server with Apache, Phusion Passenger, Mysql, RVM, Ruby Enterprise, Ruby on Rails, git.

Prerequisites

This guide assumes, that you use a minimal Debian 5 installation. If you setup from scratch, download and install the minimal netinst debian image (http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/).

After installing the base system, uncheck everything in the "Software Selection". Repeat: Uncheck "Desktop environment", "Standard System" and don't select "Web server", etc. We will install everything needed later on!

Install SSH-Server

With the minimal base system installed, log into the fresh server and become super user with su. Then install the openssh-server with aptitude install openssh-server

Now you can log into the server from your own terminal over ssh.

Get the party started

After the base system installed (either on a home server, a virtual machine or a rented server in the net) we can start setting up the web server.

Essentials

The essentials for RVM:

  • Git core
  • curl

for ruby enterprise:

  • C compiler
  • C++ compiler
  • The 'make' tool
  • The 'patch' tool
  • Zlib development headers
  • OpenSSL development headers
  • GNU Readline development headers

Install everything with

aptitude install git-core curl build-essential patch zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline5-dev

as root (su).

RVM

The ruby version manager.

bash < <( curl -L http://bit.ly/rvm-install-system-wide )

Ruby Enterprise (via RVM)

rvm install ree
rvm --default ree

Load the rvm environment . /usr/local/lib/rvm

Ruby on Rails

gem install rails

Apache & MySQL

Last package is important to be able to run gem install mysql properly. aptitude install apache2 mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev Note: the mysql installer will ask you for a mysql root user password.

Phusion Passenger

As Rails (or more precisely Rack) application server. aptitude install libcurl4-openssl-dev apache2-prefork-dev libapr1-dev libaprutil1-dev gem install passenger passenger-install-apache2-module

The setup guides you through different steps. At the end you get configuration information like:

"Please edit your Apache configuration file, and add these lines:" LoadModule passenger_module /usr/local/rvm/gems/ree-1.8.7-2010.02/gems/passenger-3.0.0/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so PassengerRoot /usr/local/rvm/gems/ree-1.8.7-2010.02/gems/passenger-3.0.0 PassengerRuby /usr/local/rvm/wrappers/ree-1.8.7-2010.02/ruby

Restart Apache apache2ctl graceful

And for vhosts:

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