pubstandards.com configuration

These are the config files required to run the pubstandards.com email/website server.

Installation

Instructions assume a stock Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick box.

1. Install exim as the MTA, mailman for lists and dovecot for IMAP and SMTP AUTH.

   # pre-requisites
   sudo adduser --system --home /var/exim --group exim
   sudo apt-get -y install openssl libssl-dev 
       libpcre3-dev libdb4.7-dev dovecot-imapd 
       mailman listadmin
   
   # build exim from source, not apt
   cd /var/build
   wget http://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-4.72.tar.gz
   tar zxf exim-4.72.tar.gz
   cd exim-4.72
   cp src/EDITME Local/Makefile
   perl -i.bak -pe '
       s{^BIN_DIRECTORY.*}{BIN_DIRECTORY=/usr/local/bin};
       s{^CONFIGURE_FILE.*}{CONFIGURE_FILE=/etc/exim/configure};
       s{^EXIM_USER.*}{EXIM_USER=exim};
       s{^# EXIM_GROUP.*}{EXIM_GROUP=exim};
       s{^SPOOL_DIRECTORY.*}{SPOOL_DIRECTORY=/var/exim/spool};
       s{^# SUPPORT_MAILDIR.*}{SUPPORT_MAILDIR=yes};
       s{^EXIM_MONITOR.*}{# EXIM_MONITOR};
       s{^# AUTH_DOVECOT.*}{AUTH_DOVECOT=yes};
       s{^# SUPPORT_TLS.*}{SUPPORT_TLS=yes};
       s{^# TLS_LIBS=-lssl.*}{TLS_LIBS=-lssl -lcrypto};
       s{^# LOG_FILE_PATH=/var.*}{LOG_FILE_PATH=/var/log/exim/%s};
       s{^SYSTEM_ALIASES_FILE.*}{SYSTEM_ALIASES_FILE=/etc/exim/aliases};
   ' Local/Makefile
   make
   sudo make install

2. Install couchdb.

   sudo apt-get -y build-dep couchdb
   sudo apt-get -y install libicu-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev 
       libtool xulrunner-dev
   wget http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org//couchdb/1.0.1/apache-couchdb-1.0.1.tar.gz
   tar zxf apache-couchdb-1.0.1.tar.gz
   cd apache-couchdb-1.0.1
   xulrunner=$(echo /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-*)
   ./configure --prefix= 
       --with-js-lib=${xulrunner}/lib 
       --with-js-include=${xulrunner}/include
   make
   sudo make install
   useradd -d /var/lib/couchdb couchdb
   chown -R couchdb: /var/lib/couchdb /var/log/couchdb
   chown -R root:couchdb /etc/couchdb
   chmod 664 /etc/couchdb/*.ini
   chmod 775 /etc/couchdb/*.d
   /etc/init.d/couchdb start
   update-rc.d couchdb defaults
   ls -d /usr/lib/xulrunner*.* > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/xulrunner.conf
   /sbin/ldconfig

3. Install nginx for front-end proxying, mini_httpd for mailman CGI and Plack/Starman for the pubstandards.com site.

   sudo apt-get -y install nginx
   wget http://www.acme.com/software/mini_httpd/mini_httpd-1.19.tar.gz
   tar zxf mini_httpd-1.19.tar.gz
   cd mini_httpd-1.19
   curl https://gist.github.com/raw/747788/7d050734e8f606ccb878dc03d79cc47798f1f959/mini_httpd.patch | patch
   make
   sudo make install

Still TODO

• document Plack/Starman
• checking out config and website from github
• init.d scripts for mini_httpd and plack
• crontabs for updating the site information from Flickr/Upcoming