Add a New Rails App (Textdrive & Lighttpd) (See related posts)

Based on: http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?id=5094

Get Lighttpd working on Textdrive first (http://manuals.textdrive.com/read/book/9), then to add new Rails apps (ex: typo.domain.tld) follow the steps below...

1. ssh into your account

ssh username@servername.textdrive.com

2. Create a new directory for your rails apps (if you don't have one already):

mkdir ~/apps/ (or whatever you want to name it)

3. Move into that directory:

cd ~/apps/

4. svn checkout the app you want:

Example:
svn checkout svn://leetsoft.com/typo/trunk typo

5. Move into that new app's directory:

Example:
cd typo

6. Change the first line of appname/public/dispatch.rb and appname/public/dispatch.fcgi to:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby18

7. Set-up MySQL database:

a.

mysql -u username -p

b.

create database textdriveusername_appname;

c.

exit;

d.

mysql -u username -p textdriveusername_appname < db/schema.mysql.sql

8. Create a symbolic link to your app's public folder, inside of your public_html folder:

ln -s /home/username/apps/appname/public /home/username/public_html/appname

9. Add an $HTTP["host"] entry into your lighttpd.conf for the new app (ex: http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/6 and http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/187)

10. Kill all your dispatch.fcgi processes and your lighttpd process (ex: ttp://textsnippets.com/posts/show/206)

11. Restart lighttpd:

/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /home/username/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

12. Navigate to http://appname.yourdomain.tld