Credits

Big thank you to Christian Johansen for such a great install walkthru. http://cjohansen.no/en/ruby/setting_up_gitorious_on_your_own_server

Gitorious Fabric Author

Ryan Phillips

License

Apache License

Tested On

• Ubuntu Server 10.04
• EC2 - Ubuntu 10.04 - http://alestic.com/

Install Fabric

virtualenv --distribute --no-site-packages env

pip install -E env -r requirements.txt

source env/bin/activate

Prerequisites

1. An ssh key pushed to a server for a user
2. The user on the server must have NOPASSWD: ALL set in the /etc/sudoers file to ignore the password prompt for sudo.

Setting up SITE_NAME and SITE_EMAIL

edit fabfile.py change the SITE_NAME to a reasonable FQDN. In addition, make sure to setup your email address in SITE_EMAIL.

Setup database.yml

The database.yml file needs to know your database password. The fab deploy command will prompt you for a password. Make sure both of these passwords match.

Run the deploy

fab -H hostname -u user deploy

Connecting to your running gitorious

1a. Setup DNS, or 1b. edit /etc/hosts and add the IP and FQDN to your hosts file

2. Browse to the FQDN

Email setup

Google for a howto on setting up email. Gitorious is setup to use a sendmail compatible server... Postfix works.

Setting up your first user

make sure email is setup first on your server ssh to the server cd /var/www/[SITE_NAME]/gitorious env RAILS_ENV=production ruby script/create_admin ENV RAILS_ENV=production script/console

user = User.first user.login = "username" # Change to your desired username user.activate user.accept_terms user.save