My fiance and I are getting married, so I'm building us a wedding website.

Installation

I'm hosting this on EC2, so the setup looks like this:

Install Git

sudo apt-get install git

Install and configure apache (vhosts, permissions, etc?)

sudo apt-get install apache2

Edit your Apache config

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Ensure the following config:

Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

# Ensure that Apache listens on port 80
Listen 80

# All requests are virtual host requests (security? best practice?)
NameVirtualHost *:*

Enable proxy modules

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-proxy-html

sudo a2enmod proxy
sudo a2enmod proxy_http

Add a vhost entry for the site

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
sudo touch elaneandblake.com
sudo nano elaneandblake.com

Add the following:

<VirtualHost *>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/elaneandblake.com
    
    ServerName elaneandblake.com
    ServerAlias www.elaneandblake.com
    
    ErrorLog "/var/log/apache2/elaneandblake.com/error_log"
    CustomLog "/var/log/apache2/elaneandblake.com/access_log" common
    
    # Forward requests to the Node app.
    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:3000/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:3000/
</VirtualHost>

Create a symlink to sites-enabled

a2ensite elaneandblake.com

Create log files

Restart Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart



sudo apt-get install build-essential

Install Node

cd ~
git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
git checkout v0.8.15
./configure
make
sudo make install

Install NPM

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/isaacs/npm.git
cd npm
sudo make install

Clone repo

cd /var/www
sudo git clone git://github.com/blakehaswell/elane-and-blake.git elaneandblake.com

Install dependencies

cd elaneandblake.com
sudo npm install

Install Forever

sudo npm install forever -g

Start the app using Forever

forever start app.js

Install questions

• Where should I be installing Node and NPM? It doesn't matter, make installs the compiled programs elsewhere
• What is make? Do I need to install it? make is like rake, just for C (I think)
• When installing Node, what do the lines ./configure and make do? ./configure builds the makefile
• What's the deal with port forwarding? Best practice? Security? Use Apache in front of Node
• Running the app – do I use forever? Is node app ok? Forever seems to be the go. sudo npm install -g forever

Update Instructions

Log into EC2 and:

cd /var/www/elaneandblake.com
git pull
forever restart app.js