useradd -m mongrel
su - mongrel
mkdir ~/.ssh
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
cat /root/my_id >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

When I entered:
cat /root/my_id >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
I got:
cat: /root/my_id: No such file or directory

It was because I had not uploaded it at that point.

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Is this a typo?
“Next we need to create a file named “spin” in the script folder.”
vi script/spin

“Then insert the following and save it”
mongrel_rails cluster::start

“Let’s now add the new file to the project and give make it executable.”
svn add config/spin
svn propset svn:executable on config/spin

Should it be:
svn add script/spin
svn propset svn:executable on script/spin

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Thanks for taking the time to make this post.
I used this video to get started too:
http://smartic.us/2007/9/4/smarticast-4-rails-rumble-primer

Any chance you’ll make a passenger post?

Sorry for the late reply, but Wordpress never emails me when people post responses.

Passenger is now probably the best bet. As for hosting I prefer Linode.com, but there are limits to the package sizes, but for the price I think it is the best one out there. I would say that 240,000 is easily handled by a Linode setup.

That is a file containing your ssh public key. You could also just copy and paste it.

In the article I uploaded the file:
scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@ip_address:~/my_id

cat /root/my_id >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

What is my_id? Did I miss something?

Thanks for creating this! I am planning to use it on this project.

Do you have a recommendation about which application server I should set up: mongrel clusters, fastcgi, passenger, other?

I have a client that is getting about 12000 dynamically generated page views per day, and I would like to be able to handle 20x that, or 240,000. They are currently using a table-based sessions.

Also, any recommendations on a Rails-savvy hosting provider that does VPS and has good support. Their budget is between $100 and $300 a month. I’ve looked at Railsplayground, Slicehost and RailsMachine, but I’d like to find out if you have had good experience with one of these or another vendor.

Thanks,
John


mv /etc/nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.old


Not sure why, but naming it simply nginx.conf.old didn’t prevent it from getting picked up. Then just restart nginx.

Also, there was a typo

default_type application/octect-stream;

should be

default_type application/octect-stream;


Thanks for the tut!