This is the repository that powers our website www.3mik.com. 3mik is a shopping curation site and a social network. To setup a copy of this application on your server please do the following

• Get a linux VM. The instructions are for a Debian based system. We were using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It should work for other distributions as well but you have to translate the instructions.

• Git clone this repo on your machine. we are assuming that you clone this repo in $HOME/code/github/sc folder.

• Install the webgloo repository. We use webgloo library as an MVC framework.

$cd $HOME/code/github $git clone git://github.com/rjha/webgloo.git

Now you should have

 /home/foo/code/github
    |_ sc/
    |_ webgloo/
    

• Install required packages on your VM

$ cd $HOME/code/github/sc/deploy/linux/packages $ sudo aptitude install $(< precise.server.packages)

The only interaction is to provide root password for mysql. provide any password you like. save the mysql root password for later use.

• Add mint.3mik.com as host in /etc/hosts file

  $sudo vim /etc/hosts
  Add an entry for mint.3mik.com 127.0.0.1

• Run debian-7.vm.sh script

cd $HOME/code/github/sc/deploy
open debian-7.vm.sh script
@imp: set your home dir path on top
save and quit file.

$chmod +x ./debian-7.vm.sh
$sudo ./debian-7.vm.sh

@imp: If there are any other complaints then the script is failing and script should be fixed first. moving ahead will only cause agony.

• Verify PHP install

$sudo service nginx stop
$sudo service php5-fpm stop
$sudo service nginx start
$sudo service php5-fpm start

@imp
    - verify that /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/www.3mik.com vhost file has the right domain
    - verify /var/www/vhosts/www.3mik.com/htdocs location

open a browser and type :- http://mint.3mik.com/echo.php

@imp: This should show your path and loaded modules etc.
If things work then we are ready to move onto next step, else we need to fix things here first.

• create mysql database

$cd $HOME/code/github/sc/deploy/mysql/
make changes to mysql.newdb.sql file to reflect your user/db name
load mysql.newdb.sql 
$mysql -u root -p < mysql.newdb.sql

• copy the my.cnf file

    sudo cp  /etc/mysql/my.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf.orig
    sudo cp  my-5.5.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf
    restart mysql
    

• copy sc_config.ini and sc-app.inc file

    $sudo cp sc-app.inc /var/www/apps/.
    $sudo cp sc_config.ini /var/www/apps/.

• Make changes to sc_config.ini

  • node.name - in quotes, your machine name (error reports will include this name)
  • node.type (leave as development)
  • www.host.name (leave as mint.3mik.com)
  • send.error.mail (if you want to send error reports via email - not useful for dev machines) should be set to 0
  • change mysql DB/user/password
  • mysql.sphinx.port=9306
  • session.backend="mysql"
  • verify: log location
  • verify: file.store is local
  • verify: session.backend to mysql
  • verify: redis host and port
  • verify: sphinx port
  • sensitive information (like sendgrid password, FB App Id etc. is removed)
  • client ID and client secret for social logins

• install and configure sphinx.

  @see $HOME/code/github/sc/deploy/sphinx

• install and configure redis

  @see $HOME/code/github/sc/deploy/redis

• install logrotate script

cd deploy/logrotate/webgloo  
$ sudo cp webgloo /etc/logrotate.d/webgloo
$ sudo logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.d/webgloo 

• install cron scripts

$mkdir -p $HOME/cron
$copy site-worker.sh and site-worker.php file
$chmod +x site-worker.sh
$chmod +x site-worker.php
$sudo crontab -l
$sudo crontab -e
49  * * * * /usr/bin/indexer --quiet --all --rotate >> /var/log/sphinxsearch/cron.log 2>&1
*/17 * * * * /home/rjha/cron/site-worker.sh >> /var/www/log/cron.log 2>&1
@imp
fix send_activity_mail method on DEV machines
patch it to return w/o sending mails
run ./site-worker.sh from command line to test things!

16. Reboot your machine.

Now access http://mint.3mik.com