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]]>I finally got the trick, here is how it worked for me:
(*) what environment magick is needed?
in config/environment.rb add this line:
Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
# some hosting might need this (hostgator does)
config.load_paths += %W( #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/plugins )
Installation with fastcgi (From kikontrack on the forums)
Hostgator recently added support to run rails app with fcgi
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule <sup>([</sup>.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
ErrorDocument 500 "<h2>Application error</h2>Rails application failed to start properly"
Then open your browser to http://YOUR_DOMAIN/tracks and you should be good to go ;)
Installation with fastcgi and SSL (From kikontrack on the forums)
Reproduce above steps then
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
Dir.chdir("/home/YOUR_USER/rails/tracks/public")
require File.dirname(<i>FILE</i>) + "/../config/environment"
require 'fcgi_handler'
RailsFCGIHandler.process!
Then open your browser to https://YOUR_DOMAIN/~YOUR_USER/tracks and you should be good to go ;)
You will get a SSL mismatch error has the SSL is sign for hostgator domain name, but you can import the certificate in your browser to not get the warning every time
You now have a read-only Tracks calendar you can toggle on the sidebar, and all Tracks actions with due dates are displayed in your calendar view. Since evolution-data-server is now tracking it, any other GNOME application that uses it (such as the clock applet, or Pimlico’s “Dates”) is “Tracks-aware” as well.
]]>The Dreamhost installation was very easy. I set it up as the only application in the domain (actually created a subdomain for this purpose):
Now I like to set shell access to my account and log in to Dreamhost via SSH, but I guess it can be done otherwise. The idea is to either unzip the tracks zip file inside the home directory for the site. If you’re like me, you’d need to do:
(log in to your dreamhost account that you associated with the domain using your favorite ssh client)
ln <del>s tracks</del>-<version> tracksThen continue with the installation.
If you don’t like to shell-access your account, you could also download and unzip on your local computer, rename the folder “tracks” and upload the whole thing to Dreamhost. Never tested it myself.
Also – you do not need to run the web server that comes with tracks. Just go to the url http://your.domain.name/signup and you should be fine.
Clarification 06.16.09: Skip this step: script/server -e production. You don’t need a Mongrel server. Dreamhost is providing your server.
—Arik
There are just a couple of lines to add to the config/routes.rb file
map.statistics 'statistics', :controller => 'stats', :action => 'index'
map.connect 'statistics/:action', :controller => 'stats', :action =>':action'
I added them just before
map.resources :recurring_todos,
which was around line 70 originally.
(copied from the forum here)
]]>I did a fresh install of tracks a while back, and took a copy of my commands. I’ve included them here as I thought they might be of use.
The install is on Scientific Linux 5 (a RedHat 5 clone), and is using apache as a front end proxy for tracks, using a dedicated virtual host in apache, with SSL. I imported my existing tracks database as part of the install.
It also includes setup for a separate database backup user, and a cronjob that dumps the database out.
Apologies for any linewrap weirdness due to email format.
Hope someone finds this useful!
—Orlando.
Setting up tracks on RedHat 5 / CentOS 5 / Scientific Linux 5
Install mysql-server, ruby, ruby-rdoc, ruby-devel.x86_64, mysql-devel.x86_64
Create tracks user account:
[root@mwvm01 ~]# useradd -m tracks
Set root password in mysql:
[root@mwvm01 ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start Initializing MySQL database: Installing MySQL system tables…
OK
Filling help tables…
OK
To start mysqld at boot time you have to copy support-files/mysql.server to the right place for your system
PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER !
To do so, start the server, then issue the following commands:
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password ‘new-password’
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h mwvm01.mydomain.com password ‘new-password’
See the manual for more instructions.
You can start the MySQL daemon with:
cd /usr ; /usr/bin/mysqld_safe &
You can test the MySQL daemon with mysql-test-run.pl cd mysql-test ; perl mysql-test-run.pl
Please report any problems with the /usr/bin/mysqlbug script!
The latest information about MySQL is available on the web at http://www.mysql.com Support MySQL by buying support/licenses at http://shop.mysql.com
[ OK ]Starting MySQL: [ OK ]
[root@mwvm01 ~]#
[root@mwvm01 ~]# mysql -u root
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 4
Server version: 5.0.45 Source distribution
Type ‘help;’ or ’\h’ for help. Type ’\c’ to clear the buffer.
mysql> use mysql;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Database changed
mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD where User=’root’;
Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 3 Changed: 3 Warnings: 0
mysql> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> quit
Import an existing tracks database:
[root@mwvm01 ~]# ls -l ~orichard/tracks.db.2009-03-02.gz
rw-r-r—1 orichard is_iti_ug 62508 Mar 2 11:23 /home/orichard/tracks.db.2009-03-02.gz
[root@mwvm01 ~]# cd ~orichard/
[root@mwvm01 orichard]# gzip -d tracks.db.2009-03-02.gz
[root@mwvm01 orichard]# mysql -u root -p Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 10
Server version: 5.0.45 Source distribution
Type ‘help;’ or ’\h’ for help. Type ’\c’ to clear the buffer.
mysql> create database tracks;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> Bye
[root@mwvm01 orichard]# mysql -u root -p tracks < tracks.db.2009-03-02 Enter password:
[root@mwvm01 orichard]#
Set up tracks database accounts:
mysql> GRANT LOCK TABLES ON tracks.* to ‘tracksbackup’@’localhost’
IDENTIFIED BY ‘apassword’;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> GRANT SELECT ON tracks.* to ‘tracksbackup’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED
BY ‘apassword’;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> GRANT ALL ON tracks.* to ‘tracks’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY
‘thepassword’;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Download the latest tracks:
[root@mwvm01 orichard]# wget
http://bsag.bingodisk.com/public/files/tracks-current.zip
11:34:32 (406 KB/s) – `tracks-current.zip’ saved [6080226/6080226]
[root@mwvm01 orichard]# unzip tracks-current.zip
[root@mwvm01 orichard]# mv tracks-1.7/ ~tracks/
[root@mwvm01 orichard]# chown -R tracks:tracks ~tracks/tracks-1.7/
[root@mwvm01 orichard]# su – tracks
[tracks@mwvm01 ~]$ cd tracks-1.7/config/
[tracks@mwvm01 config]$ vi database.yml
[tracks@mwvm01 config]$ vi site.yml
salt: “mysalt”
time_zone: “Edinburgh”
secure_cookies: true
[tracks@mwvm01 config]$ cd
[tracks@mwvm01 ~]$ ln -s tracks-1.7/ tracks
[tracks@mwvm01 ~]$ cd tracks
[orichard@espresso tracks]$ cat > start_tracks.sh #!/bin/bash
cd ~tracks/tracks
./script/server -e production—binding=127.0.0.1 -d
[tracks@mwvm01 tracks]$ chmod +x start_tracks.sh
Set up rubygems:
[tracks@mwvm01 ~]$ wget
http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/45905/rubygems-1.3.1.tgz
11:45:42 (530 KB/s) – `rubygems-1.3.1.tgz’ saved [263748/263748]
[tracks@mwvm01 ~]$ tar -zxf rubygems-1.3.1.tgz
[root@mwvm01 rubygems-1.3.1]# ruby setup.rb
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
Successfully installed mysql-2.7
1 gem installed
[root@mwvm01 ~]# gem install rake
Successfully installed rake-0.8.3
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for rake-0.8.3…
Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.8.3…
And start up:
[tracks@mwvm01 tracks]$ ./start_tracks.sh
=> Booting WEBrick…
=> Rails 2.2.2 application started on http://127.0.0.1:3000
[2009-03-02 11:53:29] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2009-03-02 11:53:29] INFO ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [x86_64-linux]
[tracks@mwvm01 tracks]$ netstat -l -n | grep 3000
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3000 0.0.0.0:*
Configure apache:
[root@mwvm01 certs]# cd /etc/pki/tls/certs/
[root@mwvm01 certs]# make certreq
umask 77 ; \
Please enter the following ‘extra’ attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:
[root@mwvm01 certs]# mv localhost.csr tracks.mydomain.com.csr
[root@mwvm01 ~]# cat > /etc/httpd/conf.d/tracks.conf
NameVirtualHost tracks.mydomain.com:443
Listen IP_ADDRESS_OF_tracks.mydomain.com:443
[root@mwvm01 conf.d]# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Set up the interface:
[root@mwvm01 conf.d]# ifconfig eth0:1 IP_ADDRESS_OFtracks.mydomain.com
Start up apache:
[root@mwvm01 conf.d]# /etc/init.d/httpd configtest
Syntax OK
[root@mwvm01 conf.d]# /etc/init.d/httpd start
Starting httpd: [ OK ]
Set everything to come up on boot:
[root@mwvm01 ~]# chkconfig mysqld on
[root@mwvm01 ~]# chkconfig httpd on
[root@mwvm01 etc]# cat >> /etc/rc.local
su – tracks -c /home/tracks/tracks/start_tracks.sh
Update /etc/sysconfig/iptables with:
Set up database backups:
[tracks@mwvm01 ~]$ mkdir backups
[tracks@mwvm01 ~]$ crontab -e
01 9 * * * /usr/bin/mysqldump -u tracksbackup -p’apassword’ tracks >
/home/tracks/backups/tracks.db.`date \+\%F`; gzip
/home/tracks/backups/tracks.db.`date \+\%F`
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The most up-to-date instructions can be found in the manual on the homepage” You can run Tracks on your own (local) computer (MacOS X, Windows and Linux are all supported), or on your web host’s server, in which case you will have access to Tracks from any internet connected computer.
Specific instructions for various platforms:
Submitted by Chris Cotsapas:
In Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake), you may find that you get errors saying that mysql.sock doesn’t not exist.
Here’s how to fix it – in a terminal type:
ln -s /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock /tmp/mysql.sock
see also Linux Debian
Submitted by TJN
A guide for installing tracks on ubuntu 8+ here
]]>A detailed howto written by c00i90wn can be found at c00i90wn’s homepage here there explains how to install it on Debian or Ubuntu.
(These instructions were written by Thomas Themel)
Installing tracks on Debian is a bit more complicated than it should be, mainly because Debian splits ruby into a multitude of packages, while authors of ruby packages seemingly tend to assume that they are all installed.
Installing Tracks requires Ruby on Rails, which in turn requires RubyGems.
To install RubyGems, you need to install the following Debian packages:
When these and their dependencies are set up, it should be possible to install !RubyGems:
sokrates:/home/themel/ruby/rubygems-0.8.4# ruby setup.rb all
---> bin
[...]
Successfully built RubyGem
Name: sources
Version: 0.0.1
File: sources-0.0.1.gem
sokrates:/home/themel/ruby/rubygems-0.8.4#
For installation of the rails GEM, more Debian packages are required:
RubyGems can then install Ruby on Rails:
sokrates:/home/themel/ruby/rubygems-0.8.4# gem install rails
Attempting local installation of 'rails'
Local gem file not found: rails*.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'rails'
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Install required dependency rake? [Yn] y
Install required dependency activerecord? [Yn]
Install required dependency actionpack? [Yn]
Install required dependency actionmailer? [Yn]
Successfully installed rails, version 0.9.5
Installing RDoc documentation for rails-0.9.5...
WARNING: Generating RDoc on .gem that may not have RDoc.
lib/rails_generator.rb:34:46: Skipping require of dynamic string: "#{path}/#{name}_generator.rb"
Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.4.15...
Installing RDoc documentation for activerecord-1.6.0...
Installing RDoc documentation for actionpack-1.4.0...
lib/action_controller/scaffolding.rb:87:37: Skipping require of dynamic string: "#{model_id.id2name}"
Installing RDoc documentation for actionmailer-0.6.1...
sokrates:/home/themel/ruby/rubygems-0.8.4#
To run tracks, we need another Debian package:
The final issue that I ran into is that the ruby MySQL client seems to expect the MySQL server socket in its default location in /tmp when the specified database host is localhost. Debian doesn’t place the server socket in /tmp/mysql.socket, but rather in /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.socket. This causes the error
No such file or directory - /tmp/mysql.sock
when starting tracks. To fix this, add a socket line to the appropriate environments in your config/database.yml:
development:
adapter: mysql
database: tracks
host: localhost
username: root
password:
socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Happy GTDing!
Thomas Themel
Radagast has also had some success with Debian and Tracks, and posts detailed instructions here.
There are some very clear and straightforward instructions for Ubuntu Dapper Drake here.
Here are some clear instructions for getting rails and Edgy to play well together.
Install notes for Debian Lenny, including specific details and patches required for installing in a subdirectory:
http://bitcube.co.uk/content/getting-things-done-tracks