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= ASLO Node =
While discussing activities.sugarlabs.org maintainability with Dogi this afternoon, he suggested that instead of thinking about web, proxy, and database nodes we create a standard ALSO node which we can adopt and tune via configs.

= Components =

== Install Editors ==

 apt-get install emacs vim

== Setup Network ==
Set the IP address for the each nic

/etc/networks/interfaces
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# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 10.0.0.101
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 10.0.0.0
        broadcast 10.0.0.255
        gateway 10.0.0.1

#auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
        address 10.0.0.201
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 10.0.0.0
        broadcast 10.0.0.255
        gateway 10.0.0.1
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restart the network

 /etc/init.d/networking restart

== Install php server ==

===Install needed packages===
 sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-gd php5-cli php-pear php5-mysql
 sudo apt-get install git subversion
 sudo apt-get install gettext

===Install required php modules===
 sudo pear config-set preferred_state beta 
 sudo pear install Archive_Zip

===Create user to run scripts===
 sudo useradd -d /srv/activities activities

Make sure that all files in /srv/activities
* has apache(web-data) user
* ''activities'' group
* group write access
* umask is 002

===Switch to activities user===

 sudo -i -u activities

===Checkout ASLO sources===

 git clone git://git.sugarlabs.org/slo-activities/mainline.git ~
 git checkout production -b production

===Fetch external dependencies===

 cd ~/site/vendors/
 svn co http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/product-details
 svn co http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/fizzypop.mozdev fizzypop
 svn co http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/phorms
 svn co http://svn.mozilla.org/libs/zxtm-api


===Set up NFS mount points===
Create directories
 mkdir -p ~/files
 mkdir -p ~/staging

Add the following lines to the end of `/etc/fstab'

 sunjammer.sugarlabs.org:/srv/nfs/activities/files /srv/activities/files nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr
 sunjammer.sugarlabs.org:/srv/nfs/activities/staging /srv/activities/staging nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr

===First-time ASLO setup===

Using ''~/aslo/config.php'' as template, setup ASLO settings in file ''~/site/app/config/config.php''. Template file was configured for ''dev'' environment, switch it to production by  setting ''SITE_STATE'' variable to ''production''.

Setup other env defines in file ''~/site/app/config/config-local.php''
 define('DEBUG', 0);
 define('DEV', false);
 define('QUERY_CACHE', true);

Create directories
 mkdir -p ~/site/app/tmp/cache/persistent
 mkdir -p ~/site/app/tmp/cache/models
 mkdir -p ~/site/app/tmp/cache/views
 mkdir -p ~/files/temp
 mkdir -p ~/files/extracted
 mkdir -p ~/data

Minify css/js stuff
 ~/aslo/minify.py

Merge ASLO gettext strings
 ~/aslo/po-compile.sh

===Crontab for activities user===

 @hourly $HOME/aslo/cron/hourly
 # do not use @daily to make sure that we start job after aslo-proxy
 01 08 * * * $HOME/aslo/cron/daily

===Create vhost===
vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/activities.sl.org
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<VirtualHost *:80 *:443>
        ServerName activities.sugarlabs.org
        ServerAlias activities2.sugarlabs.org # for test/install
        ServerAdmin webmaster@sugarlabs.org

        DocumentRoot /srv/activities/site/app/webroot

        LogFormat "%h %V %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\" \"%{HTTP_COOKIE}i\"" addons
        CustomLog /srv/activities/data/access addons
        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/all-access.log vhost_combined
        #CustomLog /var/log/apache2/performance.log performance
</VirtualHost>
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