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• locale -a
• locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
• update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
• update-locale LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
• exit
• ssh zer1 #zer1 is my VPS added to ~/.ssh/config 
• locale -a #should have en_US.UTF-8 listed 
• update-locale #errors? 

Set your time zone

• dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
• ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com

Update Ubuntu

• apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Install dependencies

• apt-get install build-essential libmagickcore-dev imagemagick libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev git-core libapr1-dev libssl-dev libmysqlclient15-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev curl libncurses5-dev libreadline5-dev libopenssl-ruby1.9

Install MySQL

• apt-get install mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev libmysqlclient15-dev libmysql-ruby

• mysql_secure_installation

Install latest Ruby from source

• wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.2-p290.tar.gz
• tar zxvf ruby-1.9.2-p290.tar.gz
• cd ruby-1.9.2-p290.tar.gz
• ./configure
• make
• make install
• which ruby
• gem list
• gem install passenger mysql bundler

Set default environment for Rails

• nano /etc/environment
• add the following line to it:
• export RAILS_ENV=production

Install Nginx and Passenger

• passenger-install-nginx-module
• curl -L https://raw.github.com/jnstq/rails-nginx-passenger-ubuntu/master/nginx/nginx > /etc/init.d/nginx
• chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx
• update-rc.d nginx defaults
• service nginx start

Configure Nginx

• mkdir /opt/nginx/conf/sites-enabled
• nano /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
• add this within the http { } block:
• change default listen port to 8080
• include /opt/nginx/conf/sites-enabled/*;
• nano /opt/nginx/conf/sites-enabled/test

*note port 8080 for Varnish

• service nginx restart

Add deploy user

• adduser deploy
• su deploy #switches to deploy
• ssh-keygen -t rsa -C “deploy@myserver”
• cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
• copy the output into your favorite Git hosting as an allowed key (Assembla, Github, etc)
• on your development machine:
• cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
• on the server as deploy user:
• nano ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
• paste in your development machine’s public key
• git clone git@git.assembla.com:myapp.git      #lets you add host as known_host
• rm -rf myapp         

Create a MySQL user and database

• mysql -u root -p
• create database myapp_prod;
• create user 'mydbuser'@'localhost' identified by 'secret';
• grant all privileges on myapp_prod.* to 'mydbuser'@'localhost';

Install Varnish HTTP cache

• apt-get install subversion autotools-dev automake1.9 libtool autoconf libncurses-dev xsltproc quilt debhelper
• svn co http://varnish-cache.org/svn/tags/varnish-2.0.5
• cd varnish-2.0.5/varnish-cache
• dpkg-buildpackage
• cd ..
• dpkg -i libvarnish1_2.0.6-2_i386.deb
• dpkg -i varnish_2.0.6-2_i386.deb
• service varnish start

Configure Varnish

• nano /etc/varnish/default.vcl
• Leave this at defaults, but now you know where it is :)
• nano /etc/default/varnish
• Comment out DAEMON_OPTS use the following instead:
• DAEMON_OPTS="-a :80 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -s file,/var/lib/varnish/$INSTANCE/varnish_storage.bin,1G"
• service varnish restart