Installing Grebe - Jul 30, 2014

Documenting the steps, which will lead to additional programming changes to make it simpler.

• With the hosting provider, add DNS information, if necessary.
• Create a CNAME record if installing the code under a subdomain.
  • grebe CNAME @
• May have to wait a while before DNS updates in order to use the new subdomain website.

• Log onto remote server.

• Change to user root. or use sudo ahead of each command.
  • https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

• Change directory to web server config area. This example uses the Nginx web server, and it assumes that FastCGI has been installed.
  • cd /etc/nginx

• Need to create a server block config file to support Grebe.
  • http://wiki.nginx.org/ServerBlockExample
    • "VirtualHost" is an Apache term. Nginx does not have Virtual hosts, it has "Server Blocks" that use the server_name and listen directives to bind to tcp sockets.
• This is an example of using Grebe under a subdomain.
  • cd sites-available
  • vim grebe.yourdomain.com
  • add the following and save the file:

########
# GREBE
########

server {
        listen   80;

        server_name grebe.yourdomain.com;

        location ~ ^/(css/|javascript/|images/) {
          root /home/grebe/Grebe/root;
          access_log off;
          expires max;
        }

        location /api/v1 {
             root /home/grebe/Grebe/root/api/v1;
             index grebeapi.pl;
             rewrite  ^/(.*)$ /grebeapi.pl?query=$1 break;
             fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:8999;
             fastcgi_index grebeapi.pl;
             fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
             include fastcgi_params;
        }

        location / {
             root /home/grebe/Grebe/root;
             index grebe.pl;
             rewrite  ^/(.*)$ /grebe.pl?query=$1 break;
             fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:8999;
             fastcgi_index grebe.pl;
             fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
             include fastcgi_params;
        }
}

• Create a link to the new Nginx server block file.
  • ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/grebe.yourdomain.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

• Restart Nginx.
  • /etc/init.d/nginx restart

• Create a home directory for Grebe.
  • mkdir /home/grebe

• Change to Grebe directory.
  • cd /home/grebe

• Within the /home/grebe directory, download or copy over the gzipped tar file that contains the Grebe code, and unpack it. Example file: Grebe-29Jul2014.tar.gz
  • unpack in two steps:
    • gunzip Grebe-29Jul2014.tar.gz
    • tar -xvf Grebe-29Jul2014.tar
  • or unpack in one step:
    • tar -zxvf Grebe-29Jul2014.tar.gz
• The unpacking creates a directory called Grebe.