Gitorious installation on Ubuntu Jaunty

So I managed to install Gitorious and not only that, I also have Redmine working on the same machine. Both use Apache2, Passenger, MySql and git. No virtual hosts are used, these tools are accessed with "https://hostname/gitorious" and "http://hostname/redmine". I'll start with instructions on how to install Gitorious and the next one will handle Redmine installation on the same machine. I tried to make these instructions as simple as possible, but if something goes really badly wrong, it's on you. I also did this on a fresh virtual machine so I had to install some packages that are installed automatically on "normal" installation. So, here we go. Everything is done as root (sudo -i).

Install needed packages and gems

1. aptitude update
2. aptitude install apache2 ruby rubygems git-core git-doc libmysql-ruby mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient15-dev phpmyadmin libdbd-mysql-ruby build-essential cron rake wget
3. aptitude install zlib1g-dev tcl-dev libexpat-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev postfix apg geoip-bin libgeoip1 libgeoip-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev imagemagick libpcre3 libpcre3-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libyaml-dev apache2-dev libonig-dev ruby-dev libopenssl-ruby libmagick++-dev zip unzip memcached git-svn git-cvs irb
   
4. gem install -b --no-ri --no-rdoc passenger rake
5. gem install -b --no-ri --no-rdoc rmagick chronic geoip daemons hoe echoe ruby-yadis \ ruby-openid mime-types diff-lcs json rack ruby-hmac stompserver
   
6. gem install -b --no-ri --no-rdoc -v 1.3.1.1 rdiscount
7. gem install -b --no-ri --no-rdoc -v 1.1 stomp
8. ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/rake /usr/bin
9. ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/stompserver /usr/bin
   

Install Sphinx

1. cd /tmp
2. wget http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
3. gunzip sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz && tar xvf sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar
4. cd sphinx-0.9.8.1
5. ./configure --prefix=/usr && make all install

Fetch Gitorious

1. git clone http://git.gitorious.org/gitorious/mainline.git /var/www/gitorious
2. ln -s /var/www/gitorious/script/gitorious /usr/bin

Create user

This step will create the "git" user for the system and also the ssh keyring which is used to identify other users.

1. adduser --system --home /var/www/gitorious/ --no-create-home --group --shell /bin/bash git
2. chown -R git:git /var/www/gitorious
3. su - git
4. mkdir .ssh
5. touch .ssh/authorized_keys
6. chmod 700 .ssh
7. chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys
8. mkdir tmp/pids
9. mkdir repositories
10. mkdir tarballs
11. exit

Configure Gitorious

1. Copy attached file gitorious.yml to /var/www/gitorious/config. Change gitorious_client_host and gitorious_host to the system hostname or IP address.
2. cp /var/www/gitorious/config/broker.yml.example /var/www/gitorious/broker.yml
   

Configure services

1. cp /var/www/gitorious/doc/templates/ubuntu/git-ultrasphinx /etc/init.d/
2. sed -e "s/opt\/ruby-enterprise\/bin\/ruby/usr\/bin\/ruby/" /var/www/gitorious/doc/templates/ubuntu/git-daemon > /etc/init.d/git-daemon
3. chmod 755 /etc/init.d/git-daemon
4. Copy attached stomp file to /etc/init.d.
5. Copy attached git-poller file to /etc/init.d
6. cp /var/www/gitorious/doc/templates/ubuntu/gitorious-logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/gitorious
7. chmod 755 /etc/init.d/git-ultrasphinx /etc/init.d/git-daemon /etc/init.d/stomp /etc/init.d/git-poller
8. update-rc.d stomp defaults
9. update-rc.d git-daemon defaults
10. update-rc.d git-ultrasphinx defaults
11. update-rc.d git-poller defaults

Configure Apache

1. /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module
2. Copy attached file passenger.load to /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.load.
3. a2enmod passenger
4. a2enmod rewrite
5. a2enmod ssl
6. a2ensite default-ssl
7. ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
8. Copy attached gitorious.conf file to /etc/apache2/conf.d/gitorious.conf.
9. /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Step 7 fixes phpmyadmin so it works again.

Create database and database user

1. mysql -p
2. create user 'git'@'localhost' identified by '[password]';
3. grant all privileges on * . * to 'git'@'localhost' identified by '[password]';
4. grant all privileges on `gitorious_production` . * to 'git'@'localhost' with grant option ;
5. Copy attached file database.yml to /var/www/gitorious/config/database.yml. Change the password to the one you selected in previous step.

Bootstrap Gitorious

1. cd /var/www/gitorious
2. export RAILS_ENV="production"
3. rake db:create
4. rake db:migrate
5. rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap
6. Add this to crontab: * * * * * cd /var/www/gitorious && /usr/bin/rake ultrasphinx:index RAILS_ENV="production"

And finally

1. /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
2. ruby /var/www/create_admin
   

Last step creates the Gitorious super user. Note that admin email must be fully qualified email address, e.g. "admin@foo.bar.net"

Attachments

gitorious.yml:

production:

# The session secret key (`apg -m 64` is always useful for this kinda stuff)
cookie_secret: ssssht

# The path where git repositories are stored. The actual (bare) repositories $
# in repository_base_path/#{project.slug}/#{repository.name}.git/:
repository_base_path: "/var/www/gitorious/repositories"

# Stuff that's in the html head. custom stats javascript code etc
extra_html_head_data:

# System message that will appear on all pages if present
system_message:

# Port the ./script/gitorious script should use:
gitorious_client_port: 80

# Host the ./script/gitorious script should use:
gitorious_client_host: HOSTNAME

# Host which is serving the gitorious app, eg "gitorious.org"
gitorious_host: HOSTNAME

# User which is running git daemon
gitorious_user: git

# Email spam on server errors to:
exception_notification_emails:

# Mangle visible e-mail addresses (spam protection)
mangle_email_addresses: true

# Enable or Disable Public Mode (true) or Private Mode (false)
public_mode: true

# Define your locale
locale: en

# Where should we store generated tarballs?
# (should be readable by webserver, since we tell it to send the file using X$
archive_cache_dir: "/var/www/gitorious/tarballs"
# Which directory should we work in when we generate tarballs, before moving
# them to the above dir?
archive_work_dir: "/tmp/tarballs-work"

# is it only site admins who can create new projects?
only_site_admins_can_create_projects: false

# Should we hide HTTP clone urls?
hide_http_clone_urls: true

# Is this gitorious.org? Read: should we have a very flashy homepage?
is_gitorious_dot_org: false

stomp:

#!/bin/sh
# Start/stop the stompserver
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: stomp
# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 1
# Short-Description: Stomp
# Description: Stomp
### END INIT INFO

test -f /usr/bin/stompserver || exit 0

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

case "$1" in
start) log_daemon_msg "Starting stompserver" "stompserver"

start-stop-daemon --start --name stompserver --startas /usr/bin/stompserver --background --user git
log_end_msg $?
;;

stop) log_daemon_msg "Stopping stompserver" "stompserver"

start-stop-daemon --stop --name stompserver
log_end_msg $?
;;

restart) log_daemon_msg "Restarting stompserver" "stompserver"

start-stop-daemon --stop --retry 5 --name stompserver
start-stop-daemon --start --name stompserver --startas /usr/bin/stompserver --background --user git
log_end_msg $?
;;

status)

status_of_proc /usr/bin/stompserver stompserver && exit 0 || exit $?
;;

*) log_action_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/stomp {start|stop|restart|status}"

exit 2
;;

esac
exit 0

git-poller:

#!/bin/sh
# Start/stop the git poller
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: git-poller
# Required-Start: stomp
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 1
# Short-Description: Gitorious poller
# Description: Gitorious poller
### END INIT INFO

/bin/su -- git -c "cd /var/www/gitorious;RAILS_ENV=production script/poller $@"

passenger.load:

LoadModule passenger_module /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8

gitorious.conf:

Alias /gitorious /var/www/gitorious/public

<directory /var/www/gitorious/public>
PassengerAppRoot /var/www/gitorious

RailsBaseURI /gitorious
</directory>

database.yml:

production:
adapter: mysql
database: gitorious_production
username: git
password: [PASSWORD]
host: localhost
encoding: utf8