August 28, 2008 at 6:40 pm
· Filed under Server Builds ·Tagged authentication, Hardy Heron, Linux, mongrel, mongrel cluster, nginx, public key, rails, ruby on rails, server build, ssh, Ubuntu
Building up a server for Ruby on Rails can be a big pain, especially if you don’t know what you are doing. Here is my build of an Ubuntu server using 8.04 Hardy Heron. You can use this as a guide to build either a server using the server or desktop edition of Ubuntu. It is all command line so it will work either way.
I am not going to cover the actual install of Ubuntu because this is going to be long enough without that. Ubuntu makes their installer very easy but if I get some requests to document the install process I might post it up later.
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August 17, 2008 at 1:25 am
· Filed under Linux/Unix Articles ·Tagged backup rotation, bash scripts, crontab, Linux, rsync, shell script, Unix
I am not a Linux guru by any means but I know enough to get around. I am going to share with you my scripts for rotating the backups for a website that I manage. Anyone who knows a better way is welcome to share with me, but for now this is what I have and it works well enough for me.
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