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These instructions will help you set up Dreamwidth on Linode hosting, brought to you by <ljuser>exor74</ljuser>.
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== Ordering ==
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Newark is the best choice for a node location for 2 reasons:
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* Guaranteed 64-bit host
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* Fast internal-network disk image fetch from <ljuser>exor674</ljuser>
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== Setting up a Linux Deployment ==
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Click on "Deploy a Linux Distribution":
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[[Image:DeployDistribution.png]]
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This will bring you to the Linode Distribution Wizard.
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# Click on "Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 Bit"
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# Enter "3096" as the disk image size
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# Enter "256" Swap
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# Enter password, and hit "Create Profile"
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[[Image:LinodeDistributionWizard.png]]
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Wait for it to complete, and then hit "Create new disk image".
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# Label: "Dreamwidth Image"
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# Size: "1024"
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# Filesystem Type: "ext3"
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# Hit "Create Disk"
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[[Image:CreateDiskImage.png]]
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# Click on "Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 Bit Profile"
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# Set /dev/xvdc to "Dreamwidth Image", and hit "Save Profile"
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[[Image:LinodeConfigurationProfile.png]]
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Go to the "Network" tab, and click on "Add Private IP".
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[[Image:AddPrivateIP.png]]
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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.
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[[Image:LinodeNetworkConfiguration.png]]
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== Getting into the node ==
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Go back to the "Dashboard" tab, hit "Boot", and wait for the task to complete.
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Open your SSH client and SSH to root@<i>noted eth0 address</i>, and enter your root password:
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[[Image:LinodeSSH.png]]
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== Getting and using the Dreamwidth image ==
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We're going to install a canned Dreamwidth image to make things easier on us.
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Install wget:
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apt-get install wget
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If you are on a Newark node:
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<i>noted "for manual configuration" line</i>
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wget http://192.168.133.102:6887/Linode-Dreamwidth-Ubuntu.img
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If you are *NOT* in Newark:
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wget http://ns1.andreanall.com:6887/Linode-Dreamwidth-Ubuntu.img
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Now you can copy the image to your deployment:
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dd if=Linode-Dreamwidth-Ubuntu.img of=/dev/xvdc
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[[Image:LinodeDreamwidthImage.png]]
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<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:
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# Press "Shutdown"(Image 1), and wait for it to finish
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# Ticky the box next to "Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 Bit Disk Image (ext3)"(Image 2) and hit "Delete"(Image 3)
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# Click on "Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 Bit Profile"(Image 4)
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[[Image:DeleteOldUbuntuImage.png]]
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To switch to the Dreamwidth Image, click on your profile's link and:
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# Change /dev/xvda to "Dreamwidth Image"
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# Clear /dev/xvdc
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# Hit "Save Profile"
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[[Image:SwitchToDreamwidthImage.png]]
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# Click on "Dreamwidth Image"
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# Enter "12032" in the "New Size" field
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# Hit "Save Changes"
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# Wait till it completes
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[[Image:EditDiskImage.png]]
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== Setting up the new disk image ==
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# Go to the "Settings & Utilities" tab
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# In the "Change a Filesystem's root Password" section
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# Set the "Disk Image" to "Dreamwidth Image"
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# Enter your password
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# Hit "Change Password"
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# Go to the "Dashboard" tab
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[[Image:ChangeFilesystemRootPassword.png]]
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Now, resign into your node:
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# Hit "Boot"
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# Wait 30 seconds after the job completes.
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# Open your SSH client and SSH to root@<i>noted eth0 address</i>, and enter your root password
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<b>Note:</b> you may have to tell SSH that nothing funky is happening
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rm /etc/ssh/*key*
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dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server
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exit
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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.
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== Set up database and postfix ==
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passwd dw
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wget http://ns1.andreanall.com:6887/LDW-patch1.tgz
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cd /
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tar xzvpf ~/LDW-patch1.tgz
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rm ~/LDW-patch1.tgz
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mysqladmin -pomg\!dreamwidth password <i>newpassword</i>
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echo 'set password = password("othernewpass")' | \
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  mysql -udw -pyay\!dreamwidth
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dpkg-reconfigure postfix
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Choose "Internet Site".  Enter
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<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.
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su - dw
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== Set up ljconfig.pl ==
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vi etc/ljconfig.pl
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# Use the right domain: Change $DOMAIN to your domain
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# Get the right database password: Search for "yay" (<code>/yay</code> in vi). Change "yay!dreamwidth" to "other_new_password"
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[[Image:EditLJConfig.png]]
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Save and quit vi (:wq) and restart apache:
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sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
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# ??
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# PROFIT!
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[[Category: Development]]
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Latest revision as of 22:55, 5 April 2011