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These instructions will help you set up Dreamwidth on Linode hosting, brought to you by <ljuser>exor74</ljuser>.

== Ordering ==

Newark is the best choice for a node location for 2 reasons:

* Guaranteed 64-bit host
* Fast internal-network disk image fetch from <ljuser>exor674</ljuser>

== Setting up a Linux Deployment ==

Click on "Deploy a Linux Distribution":

[[Image:DeployDistribution.png]]

This will bring you to the Linode Distribution Wizard.

# Click on "Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 Bit"
# Enter "3096" as the disk image size
# Enter "256" Swap
# Enter password, and hit "Create Profile"

[[Image:LinodeDistributionWizard.png]]

Wait for it to complete, and then hit "Create new disk image".

# Label: "Dreamwidth Image"
# Size: "1024"
# Filesystem Type: "ext3"
# Hit "Create Disk"

[[Image:CreateDiskImage.png]]

# Click on "Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 Bit Profile"
# Set /dev/xvdc to "Dreamwidth Image", and hit "Save Profile"

[[Image:LinodeConfigurationProfile.png]]

Go to the "Network" tab, and click on "Add Private IP".

[[Image:AddPrivateIP.png]]

And take note of the text after "eth0"--this is your node's public IP--and the text under "for manual configuration"--your private network IP.

[[Image:LinodeNetworkConfiguration.png]]

== Getting into the node ==

Go back to the "Dashboard" tab, hit "Boot", and wait for the task to complete.
Open your SSH client and SSH to root@<i>noted eth0 address</i>, and enter your root password:

[[Image:LinodeSSH.png]]

== Install using the Dreamwidth image ==

We're going to install a canned Dreamwidth image to make things easier on us.

Install wget:

 apt-get install wget

If you are on a Newark node:

 <i>noted "for manual configuration" line</i> 
 wget http://192.168.133.102:6887/Linode-Dreamwidth-Ubuntu.img

If you are *NOT* in Newark:

 wget http://ns1.andreanall.com:6887/Linode-Dreamwidth-Ubuntu.img

Now you can copy the image to your deployment:

 dd if=Linode-Dreamwidth-Ubuntu.img of=/dev/xvdc

[[Image:LinodeDreamwidthImage.png]]

<b>Note:</b> This may take a while.  Now you can delete the old Ubuntu image and switch over to the Dreamwidth image. To delete the old Ubuntu image:

# Press "Shutdown"(Image 1), and wait for it to finish
# Ticky the box next to "Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 Bit Disk Image (ext3)"(Image 2) and hit "Delete"(Image 3)
# Click on "Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 Bit Profile"(Image 4)

[[Image:DeleteOldUbuntuImage.png]]

To switch to the Dreamwidth Image, click on your profile's link and:

# Change /dev/xvda to "Dreamwidth Image"
# Clear /dev/xvdc
# Hit "Save Profile"

[[Image:SwitchToDreamwidthImage.png]]

# Click on "Dreamwidth Image"
# Enter "12032" in the "New Size" field
# Hit "Save Changes"
# Wait till it completes 

[[Image:EditDiskImage.png]]

=== Setting up the new disk image ===

# Go to the "Settings & Utilities" tab
# In the "Change a Filesystem's root Password" section
# Set the "Disk Image" to "Dreamwidth Image"
# Enter your password
# Hit "Change Password"
# Go to the "Dashboard" tab

[[Image:ChangeFilesystemRootPassword.png]]

Now, resign into your node:

# Hit "Boot"
# Wait 30 seconds after the job completes.
# Open your SSH client and SSH to root@<i>noted eth0 address</i>, and enter your root password
<b>Note:</b> you may have to tell SSH that nothing funky is happening

 rm /etc/ssh/*key*
 dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server
 exit

Open your SSH client and SSH to root@<i>noted eth0 address</i>, and enter your root password. <b>Note:</b> you may have to tell SSH that nothing funky is happening.

=== Set up database and postfix ===

 passwd dw
 wget http://ns1.andreanall.com:6887/LDW-patch1.tgz
 cd /
 tar xzvpf ~/LDW-patch1.tgz
 rm ~/LDW-patch1.tgz
 mysqladmin -pomg\!dreamwidth password <i>newpassword</i>
 echo 'set password = password("othernewpass")' | \
   mysql -udw -pyay\!dreamwidth
 dpkg-reconfigure postfix

Choose "Internet Site".  Enter

<b>Note:</b> If you can't enter your domain name in the Mac OS X Terminal because it won't delete the default, go to Preferences-&gt;Advanced and click "Delete sends Ctrl-H".  Change it back afterwards, or <code>vi</code> will delete before instead of after the cursor.

 su - dw

=== Set up ljconfig.pl ===

 vi etc/ljconfig.pl

# Use the right domain: Change $DOMAIN to your domain
# Get the right database password: Search for "yay" (<code>/yay</code> in vi). Change "yay!dreamwidth" to "other_new_password"

[[Image:EditLJConfig.png]]

Save and quit vi (:wq) and restart apache:

 sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

# ??
# PROFIT!

== Installing from scratch ==

Don't bother with the image and do [[Dreamwidth Scratch Installation]] on the profile you created.

[[Category: Development]]