= Installation Guidelines: Linux (Production) =
Whilst any Linux distribution should be suitable, we use & hence support Debian v6 'Squeeze'.
This is best installed using the [http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ netinst] CD image. Default settings can be accepted, although we would recommend a dedicated partition for /var/log to reduce the possibility of a Denial of Service attack. It is not recommended to install a graphical desktop, so this should be de-selected. 

The easiest way to install onto Debian is to use the scripts which we've developed. If you wish to do a manual install, then you may use these parts of these scripts as guidance (they are suitably commented).
The scripts can be uploaded to the server using [http://winscp.net WinSCP].
All administration can be done using [http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe PuTTY].

We support either:
 * [wiki:InstallationGuidelines/Linux/Server/ApacheMySQL Apache/MySQL]
 * [wiki:InstallationGuidelines/Linux/Server/CherokeePostgreSQL Cherokee/PostgreSQL]

Other combinations are, of course, possible, but we don't provide installation scripts for these.

For the Survey module:
{{{
mkdir /home/web2py/.matplotlib
chown web2py /home/web2py/.matplotlib
echo "os.environ['MPLCONFIGDIR'] = '/home/web2py/.matplotlib'" >> /home/web2py/wsgihandler.py
sed -i 's|TkAgg|Agg|' /etc/matplotlibrc
}}}

 * ConfigurationGuidelines
 * MaintenanceGuidelines
 * TroubleShooting
 * SysAdmin
 * [InstallationGuidelines/Amazon Amazon EC2]
 * [wiki:GIS#Tools GIS Tools]

== Notes ==
Here are a few notes on other platforms which should work, but which aren't supported by us:
  * [wiki:InstallationGuidelinesApacheModPython Apache with mod_python]
  * [wiki:InstallationGuidelinesApacheModProxy Apache with mod_proxy]
  * [wiki:InstallationGuidelinesApacheCGI Apache with CGI]
  * [wiki:InstallationGuidelinesApacheFastCGI Apache with FastCGI]
  * [wiki:InstallationGuidelinesLighttpd Lighttpd]
  * [wiki:InstallationGuidelinesNginx nginx]
  * [wiki:InstallationGuidelinesGoogleAppEngine GoogleAppEngine]