Public Pod Administration

Public Pod Administration

FAQ

Server Maintainer FAQ

Manage your server

Choose infrastructure

Self hosting

Basically you have two choices.

1. Use an application server like thin and a reverse proxy lie nginx that exposes it
2. Use a web server that has a ruby module like passenger (you can use apache or nginx for that)

Application server + reverse proxy

1. thin + nginx TBD
2. thin + apache TBD

Web server + ruby module

TBD

Start/Stop/Restart server

TBD

Make your server publicly accessible

If your server is hosted behind a NAT you will need either to forward the necessary ports to your bacend or use a service like pagekite

Port Forwarding

TBD

Pagekite

TBD

Manage the users

Get people to use your pod

TBD

Prevent new sign ups

TBD

Staying up to date

Get the newest version from the repository

git pull

Things to do after a pull

1. bundle exec install
2. bundle exec rake db:migrate
3. Restart server
4. Load server start page
5. bundle exec jammit

Troubleshooting

Certificate problems

TBD

Inter Pod Communications problems

TBD

Check Resque worker

TBD