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[ishiel]

Hello,

You've asked for any install problems so I thought I'd document the process I went through installing Sauna on a clean install of Ubuntu Server 12.04.2. I wasn't sure where else to post this so I've put it here.

As will become obvious I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing but it might be useful.

Installing Mongo DB

• sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10
• echo 'deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/10gen.list
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install mongodb-10gen

Installing Redis

• sudo apt-get install make
• sudo apt-get install gcc
• wget http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz
• tar xvzf redis-stable.tar.gz
• cd redis-stable
• cd deps
• make hiredis lua jemalloc linenoise
• cd ..
• make
• sudo make install
• sudo apt-get install tk8.5 tcl8.5
• Now run a test by entering the following command: make test

Install Ruby and Rails

• sudo apt-get -y install build-essential zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libreadline6-dev libyaml-dev
• cd /tmp
• wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p286.tar.gz
• tar -xvzf ruby-1.9.3-p286.tar.gz
• cd ruby-1.9.3-p286/
• ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
• make
• sudo make install
• sudo gem install rails -v 3.2 --no-rdoc --no-ri

Installing Sauna

• sudo apt-get install git
• sudo apt-get install rake
• git clone https://github.com/bborn/opensauna.git
• cd opensauna
• cp sample.env .env
• bundle install

At this point I had problems with running "bundle install". The fix was to open Gemfile, and then replace git: with https: in all the paths.

At this point I then had a problem with the dependency 'curb'. I ran the following:

• sudo apt-get install libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-openssl-dev
• sudo gem install curb -v '0.8.4'
• bundle install

Then I had a problem with dependency 'pg'. So:

• apt-get install libpq-dev
• sudo gem install pg -v '0.16.0'
• bundle install

Then it was sqlite. So:

• sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
• sudo gem install sqlite3 -v '1.3.7'
• bundle install

Then it worked! Now I needed to run 'rake secret' to get a secret for the config but this failed so:

• sudo apt-get install nodejs
• rake secret
• copy the secret that is output
• vim .env
• paste in secret and save file

Now:

• rake db:migrate
• bundle exec foreman start -f Procfile.local

This didn't work because mongo complained about a missing db path so:

• mkdir /data
• mkdir /data/db
• sudo chmod 777 /data/db
• bundle exec foreman start -f Procfile.local

Getting the above command to run is a bit of a pain because because it'll fail if the MongoDB or Redis servers are already running. The following commands are useful:

• killall redis-server
• sudo service mongodb stop

So now I've gone to the webapp on port 5000 and set up an account, I now need to set that account to admin

• cd opensauna/db
• sqlite3 development.db
• update users set admin="1" where email="name@domain.com";

Now open browser and go to /admin or /sidekiq

[bborn]

Thanks! This is really helpful. To be honest I figured most people would be deploying to Heroku, so it's nice to have someone try it on their own server.

Were you able to get things up and running? Workers running ok for you?

[ishiel]

I was tempted to try Heroku for this but then decided to take the more challenging route!

Initially it looked good but now you mention workers I see that the RSS feeds aren't getting polled after being added for the first time. I've had a look in /sidekiq and no workers are listed and there are no scheduled items which seems wrong.

I'll play with it a bit more and see if I can work this out.