$Id: gandi.txt 1869 2008-06-01 19:29:34Z mjs $

Steps to follow to get beebo.org running on [gandi](http://gandi.net/) (Ubuntu 7.10):

1.	Give sudo access to your username:

		$ su
		$ echo "mjs ALL=(ALL) ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
 
1.	Change the hostname to whatever the "real" hostname by setting the
contents of:

		/etc/hostname
  
	to

		mel.beebo.org

	This will change the hostname on reboot; to change the hostname right
now, do:

		$ sudo hostname mel.beebo.org

1.	Build the locate database:

		$ sudo /usr/bin/updatedb

1.	Install some packages:

		apt-file
		apt-show-versions
		wget
		jed
		subversion
		apache2
		make
		gcc
		libc6-dev
		monit
 
	(Incomplete list; use the pkglist.) 
 
1.	Set the time/timezone:

		$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

1.	Add some modules to the Apache configuration:

		$ cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
		$ sudo ln -s ../mods-available/rewrite.load
		$ sudo ln -s ../mods-available/headers.load
		$ sudo ln -s ../mods-available/actions.conf
		$ sudo ln -s ../mods-available/actions.load
  
1.	Add yourself to "adm" group:

		$ sudo usermod -aG adm,www-data mjs

	(Gives access to Apache log files, and files created by the
Apache process, among other things.)

1.	Make `/var/log/apache2` world-readable:

		$ sudo chmod 755 /usr/log/apache2

1.	Disable the default site:

		$ sudo a2dissite 000-default
  
	(Or unlink from `/etc/apache2/sites-enabled`.)  

1.	Enable virtual hosts by creating a file

		/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-init
  
	with the contents:

		# Enable virtual hosts.

		NameVirtualHost *

		# To eliminate the "apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's
		# fully qualified domain name" error.

		ServerName beebo.org

		# Create a stub server to handle server-status.

		<VirtualHost *>

		    ServerName localhost
		    ServerAlias 127.0.0.1

		</VirtualHost>
  
	Then, enable this "site":

		$ sudo a2ensite 000-init
  
1.	Disable the `cgid` module:

		$ sudo a2dismod cgid

1.	Restart Apache:

		$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

1. If Ubuntu's version of monit is less than 4.10.1, [download
monit](http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/download/), and configure,
compile and install. (Do this even though you've installed the
Ubuntu monit package--Ubuntu's monit can't do authenticated
smtp.) Then, edit

		/etc/init.d/monit
	
	and make the following changes:

	1.	Change the line that reads

			DAEMON=/usr/sbin/monit
  
		to

			DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/monit

		(This gets Ubuntu's monit scripts to use the monit 4.10.1 you've just installed by hand.)

	2.	In the function `monit_check_syntax()`, change the line that reads

			$DAEMON -t

		to

			$DAEMON $ARGS -t;

		(This allows `/etc/init.d/monit command` syntax to work.)

	[More info](http://johnmuhl.com/notebook/server#monit)

1.  Movable Type: in general, the thing to make sure of is that it can write
to everything: to the /db directory, to /mt (so it can update its config
file), to /blog (so it can write out the flat files), to /mt-static/support
(themes go here).

1.    Uncommented `skip-innodb` from `/etc/mysql/my.cnf`.  (Supposedly saves
100Mb if not using InnoDB tables.)

1.    Modifications to `/etc/apache2/httpd.conf`.