Install Childrenarewelcome Server
Set Up Server
Andy after consulting decided to use the Codero public cloud, a 2 processor 2GB 50gb VM instance with an Ubuntu 10.04 install which is a bit old but does come with PHP 5.3 which is needed for Mediawiki 1.20.
This would have been fine but the default install that Codero put on the hypervisor did not actually work, i.e. it was not possible to ssh to it, it took a chat with their tech to realise that it was actually their problem. So I destroyed that instance and set another up and ssh'd no worries.
Performed an apt-get update and upgrade and set up four users: jack nad andy and izzy.
Using the znazza example I installed
apt-get install sudo p7zip-full bzip2 unzip subversion git imagemagick
I found I had to install git-core there was no package git found, and also manually install subversion.
so anyway im just installing the od package on the install a new sever proc
(not that i was ever really in that loop, but i knew names at least)
mkay
well christina aguilera has got fat and deliberately so, and there is much tut tutting and finger pointing and its hilarious
dom't install the pkg!
what do you mean install
oh i see
there is already an instance of ubuntu on the box dont
the OD pkg hasn't been updated in years
oh ok so its a matter of installing the various components from sourceforge etc eh
i need to change the proc to a hard-wired apt line
well maybe if it always has to be slavishly folows it might as well just be ascript
well anyway ill find modern instances of the package contnets
no its best if a human is present for every step
yes
http://dev.znazza.com/The_Znazza_system#Server_installation
that has an up-to-date apt-get list
the first is for general tools
then further down the lamp stuff
yes good it looks like a slightly updated tho znazza specific list of procs
be sure to begin a doc so you are documenting his server as you go, not after you're done
yes good will do
i'm refering you to just the packages not the rest of the proc, use the od proc for the rest
yes
although the way ssh and rsa keys are done is a good idea too
k
well i might as well update the proc with the new apts once ive done the install and my doc
wo
hangon
i'll update that now and add ssh stuff
surely those apts in the znazza are for debian 6
im running ubuntu 10.04
ok
the deb source is not gona make a diff?
ubuntu/debian, any version, same packages
ok cool just checking
just use the default sources for your os
ah ok
yep
just do apt-get and thatsall
yep
oh - update && upgrade first of course
yeah
when you going to the land?
probly tomorrow late morning/early arvo
8pm now
oh all right so i doubt if you will be doing any work on this wiki sorry if you are planning to before you leave cos as i said ive just set up my sation
by onto it yes
ok well just get the wiki going and all the domain set up etc - also be good to get off any some wireframes of what kinds of pages he wants and what functionality will be on them
so far we have one page type - a page representing a location resulting from the autocomplete searcg box
oh yes well that will take a good deal of back and forth with him and his offsider izzy
wireframes i mean
but ill focus on te 1.20 and the smw first
and the server obviously
yep there's quite a lot to do such as all the email set up etc
yes
now i dont need a wikia or bot framework here surely?
and document properly so that your documentation serves as the proc to rebuild quickly a working replica on a new server if necessary
yes
nope
anything else i should ignore?
look at the znazza proc, its more like what you'll want
yep ok
yes a doc is going to be in order here big time
since thats a standard single-wiki server
and is also a good example of the kind of doc that should be forming for andy
ok
every aspect of the server, svn, ssh etc and the code developed is covered in that doc
k
ill will seek to do something similar then
the daily backups is a useful thing to set up too
ok
which is covered in that z proc
(works properly in a way that doesn't fill the server up to 100% disk unlike OD!)
ok i will go thru it and do the stuff needed and do backups and etc later
nless its too simple and i might as well do it at the time what you think?
its only the stuff starting at Server Installation, so not too much to read
ok
yes ive seen it looks ok
yeah just get each bit working as ou go
let me know where the doc is (spose it should be on his own wiki) and I'll document the extension code there too
ok yes ill put it on its own wiki
which means ill do it locally first i suppose
so that means i might as well create it as an article in OD and copy it over when I'm done to the new wiki at the end of the install a wiki part
yea just note pad it until yuo have the wiki running
either/or
k
just update mail config proc, it didn't include packages to install as it relied on od-server
apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy, dovecot-common, dovecot-imapd, spamassassin, spamc
ok ill check that