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###Init

Spawn Ubuntu instance.
Update aptitude with sudo apt-get update
Install junk we want sudo apt-get install nginx spawn-fcgi php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-suhosin php5-cgi php-pear php5-mysql htop git
Set root password sudo passwd root

###Setup PHP

Change /etc/nginx/sites-available/default to:

server {
  listen   80;
  server_name  localhost;
  access_log  /var/log/nginx/localhost.access.log;
 
  ## Default location
  location / {
    root   /var/www;
    index  index.php;
  }
 
  ## Images and static content is treated different
  location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xml)$ {
    access_log        off;
    expires           30d;
    root /var/www;
  }
 
  ## Parse all .php file in the /var/www directory
  location ~ .php$ {
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
    fastcgi_pass   backend;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING     $query_string;
    fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD   $request_method;
    fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE     $content_type;
    fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH   $content_length;
    fastcgi_intercept_errors        on;
    fastcgi_ignore_client_abort     off;
    fastcgi_connect_timeout 60;
    fastcgi_send_timeout 180;
    fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
    fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
    fastcgi_buffers 4 256k;
    fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
    fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
  }
 
  ## Disable viewing .htaccess & .htpassword
  location ~ /\.ht {
    deny  all;
  }
}
upstream backend {
  server 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

sudo vi /usr/sbin/fastcgi-php with the contents:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9000 -u www-data -f /usr/bin/php5-cgi

Permissions sudo chmod 755 /usr/sbin/fastcgi-php
sudo vi /etc/init.d/init-fastcgi with the contents:

#!/bin/bash
PHP_SCRIPT=/usr/sbin/fastcgi-php
RETVAL=0
case "$1" in
    start)
      $PHP_SCRIPT
      RETVAL=$?
  ;;
    stop)
      killall -9 php
      RETVAL=$?
  ;;
    restart)
      killall -9 php
      $PHP_SCRIPT
      RETVAL=$?
  ;;
    *)
      echo "Usage: php-fastcgi {start|stop|restart}"
      exit 1
  ;;
esac
exit $RETVAL

Give script execute permissions sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/init-fastcgi
Start fastcgi /etc/init.d/init-fastcgi start
Start it on boot sudo update-rc.d init-fastcgi defaults
Restart nginx /etc/init.d/nginx restart

###Setup Ruby

Go here

###Setting up domains

cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
Add file awesomecats.com with contents:

upstream awesomecats {
  server 127.0.0.1:3000;
}
server {
  listen 80;
  server_name awesomecats.com;

  access_log /var/www/awesomecats.com/logs/access.log;
  error_log /var/www/awesomecats.com/logs/error.log;

  root /var/www/awesomecats.com/public/;
  index index.html;

  location / {
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_redirect off;

    if (-f $request_filename/index.html) {
      rewrite (.*) $1/index.html break;
    }
    if (-f $request_filename.html) {
      rewrite (.*) $1.html break;
    }
    if (!-f $request_filename) {
      proxy_pass http://awesomecats;
      break;
    }
  }
}

Symbolic link it ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/awesomecats.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/awesomecats.com
Restart nginx /etc/init.d/nginx restart

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