Simple Node & Git Server Setup Scripts

Assumptions

• You have already booted your server
• You have a DNS entry pointing to the server
• Your sever is running Ubuntu (Tested with 14.04 x64 LTS)
• You're using linux or osx (windows user can do this but ssh key wise is more complex)

Server Setup

Ssh into your server and run the following command (replace example.com with your domain).

DOMAIN=example.com bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/garrows/noleg-stack/master/init.sh)

Setup SSH Keys

For extra security, the git account doesn't not have password authentication or terminal access so we need to setup a trust between your computer and the server using your computers public key.

If you haven't already done this on your local machine in the past, generate your keys.

ssh-keygen -t rsa -N '' -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | sudo tee -a /home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys

Now send the key to the server so it knows to trust you.

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh [email protected] "cat >> /home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys"
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh [email protected] "cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

You should now be able to ssh into your server without providing a password. Remember this only works on your local computer though.

More information keys can be found at https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys

Create and Deploy Your Site

On your local machine do the following to setup a basic site

# Clone the bare git repo from the server
git clone [email protected]:example.com.git
cd example.com

# Generate an express site
sudo npm install -g express-generator
express --force --sessions --css stylus --ejs ./
echo "node_modules" > .gitignore

# Add to git and publish
git commit -am "Initial commit"
git push origin master

Once this runs, you should be able to go to http://example.com and see the website you just created.

Creating New Sites

Now that we are setup, if you want to create another site on the same server all you have to do is one one command on the server.

./setupBasicSite.sh test.foobar.com 3001

Now you can git clone [email protected]:test.foobar.com.git and push your new site.

Don't forget you will have to use port 3001 or you will get conflicts.

Issues

If something didn't work for you, please open a issue on this repo and I'll help you out.