wakemakin-website

The wakemakin website is installed by running preconfigure.sh as root (sudo).

It will install all the prerequisites and automatically configure them except for:

• the database password
• the phymyadmin admin password

Handling htpasswd stuff

Certain parts of the website will have a password protected section (proof.wakemakin.com subdomain). To properly add your own account (the most secure way to do it) you will need to find the .htpasswd-private file in the virtual host directory (i.e. /var/www/vhost/proof.wakemakin.com/). When you have that you then need to do the following:

sudo htpasswd .htpasswd-private <your new username>

To delete a user from this (in case they go crazy or you need to change the password):

sudo htpasswd -D .htpasswd-private <the username>

Ways to install

Run the below commands to deploy this website:

apt-get install -y git
git clone https://github.com/Wakemakin/wakemakin-website.git
cd wakemakine-website
./preconfigure

This assumes that you have just created a server and you haven't made a user (therefore you are root). If you wish to create a user and not run as root perform the following (again assuming you're on a new machine):

export username=<insert username here>
adduser $username
adduser $username sudo
su $username
cd ~
sudo apt-get install -y git
git clone https://github.com/Wakemakin/wakemakin-website.git
cd wakemakine-website
sudo ./preconfigure

Do replace <insert username here> with your desired username.

After the install it will open elinks. At first it will have a 'welcome to e-links' message box, hit enter to dismiss it. To quit e-links hit q then confirm the quit. In e-link you are trying to confirm that the website text looks correct.

After the install

So you've installed the website on a new server, congrats. You now need to set the DNS correctly. In the Rackspace Cloud Control panel you need to change the DNS settings for wakemakin.com. There is an A-Record with an IP address. Modify that A-Record to the IP of the new server and it will use the new server within the TTL (5-minute default).

Supported Configurations

This deploy script has been confirmed to work on the following configurations:

• Ubuntu 13.04 through Rackspace OpenCloud

Future Features

Some features that would be nice have are:

• Support for additional configurations (not necessary, but nice)
• Support for automatically updating the DNS information
• Instead of updating the DNS information it'd be nice if it'd update a load-balancer
• It could support further subdomains and virtual hosts instead of just wakemakin.com