Manual Installation of Sahana

This older way of installing & configuring Sahana Eden remains documented here

1: Add Swapfile

You should add swap from a swap file in order to improve performance (especially on a Micro instance):

sudo su -
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/swapfile bs=1024 count=524288
mkswap /mnt/swapfile
chown root:root /mnt/swapfile
chmod 0600 /mnt/swapfile
swapon /mnt/swapfile
# Make persistent across reboots
cat << EOF >> "/etc/fstab"
/mnt/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
EOF

2: Install Sahana

• Copy the installation and configuration scripts into the launched instance (assuming Cherokee & PostgreSQL):

  wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sahana/eden_deploy_manual/master/install-eden-cherokee-postgis.sh
  chmod a+x install-eden-cherokee-postgis.sh
  wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sahana/eden_deploy_manual/master/configure-eden-cherokee-postgis.sh
  chmod a+x configure-eden-cherokee-postgis.sh
  
  

• Run the install-eden-cherokee-postgis.sh script. [Note: This step takes about 10min - grab a coffee]

  sudo su -
  ./install-eden-cherokee-postgis.sh
  
  

If you wish to update your site from an alternate github repo this can be done using:

• ConfigurationGuidelines#SwitchtoanalternateGitHubrepo

3. Configure Sahana

Run configure-eden-cherokee-postgis.sh to configure the instance:

sudo su -
./configure-eden-cherokee-postgis.sh

• Add your FQDN to /etc/hosts to ensure emails are accepted by all remote mailers:

  vim /etc/hosts
  127.0.0.1 host.domain host localhost
  
  /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
  
  NB On new Amazon instances you may also need to prevent Amazon from auto-updating this file by commenting this aspect:
  vim /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
  # - update_etc_hosts
  
  

4. Add a Test site (Optional)

This script requires at least 4Gb on the main disk

sudo su -
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sahana/eden_deploy_manual/master/add_test_site.sh
chmod a+x add_test_site.sh
./add_test_site.sh

NB This script has an issue & the file /etc/cherokee/cherokee.conf needs to be manually edited to fix the lines wrapping for Source 1 (fix welcomed!)

5. Add a Demo site (Optional)

This script requires at least 6Gb on the main disk.

This script assumes that a Test site has already been installed

sudo su -
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sahana/eden_deploy_manual/master/add_demo_site.sh
chmod a+x add_demo_site.sh
./add_demo_site.sh

NB This script has an issue & the file /etc/cherokee/cherokee.conf needs to be manually edited to fix the lines wrapping for Source 1 (fix welcomed!)