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| author | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-06-13 14:18:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-06-13 17:50:15 +0100 |
| commit | 7d729dd605b06b25047324ff097688ccd09a4f5e (patch) | |
| tree | 067c7e49a33f46fb9a7dd77af932feb712229b9d | |
| parent | 3ee9c31040a70b26cbad9b505a9ef0bb512371ef (diff) | |
Make it clear that we recommend 64-bit hardware for Debian.
Closes #1200.
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/developers/index.md | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/getting_started.md | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/installing/manual_install.md | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/installing/script.md | 2 |
4 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/developers/index.md b/docs/developers/index.md index 4b90c9232..f98261a77 100644 --- a/docs/developers/index.md +++ b/docs/developers/index.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ title: For developers * The software is written in **Ruby on Rails 3.x**. We support postgresql as the backend database. A configured mail transfer agent (MTA) like exim, postfix or sendmail is necessary to parse incoming emails. We have production - sites deployed on Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu (10.04 LTS). For performance + sites deployed on Debian (Squeeze and Wheezy) and Ubuntu (10.04 and 12.04 LTS). For performance reasons, we recommend the use of [Varnish](https://www.varnish-cache.org). * To help you understand what the code is doing, read this [high-level diff --git a/docs/getting_started.md b/docs/getting_started.md index 4bfd9eb24..c51847b69 100644 --- a/docs/getting_started.md +++ b/docs/getting_started.md @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ advantage if they do. You'll also need to source a server. You should ask your tech person to help with this. The minimum spec for running a low traffic website is 512MB RAM and -a 20GB disk. 2GB RAM would be ideal. We recommend Debian Squeeze as the +a 20GB disk. 2GB RAM would be ideal. We recommend Debian Squeeze 64-bit as the operating system, though any sort of Linux should do. Rackspace offer suitable cloud servers, which start out at around $25 / month. Then your tech person should follow the [installation documentation]({{ site.baseurl }}docs/installing). diff --git a/docs/installing/manual_install.md b/docs/installing/manual_install.md index c9625c0c9..95bfc1b80 100644 --- a/docs/installing/manual_install.md +++ b/docs/installing/manual_install.md @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ The repositories above let you install `wkhtmltopdf-static` using `apt`. ### Packages customised by mySociety If you're using Debian, you should add the mySociety Debian archive to your -apt sources. +apt sources. Note that mySociety packages are currently only built for 64-bit Debian. cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mysociety-debian.list <<EOF deb http://debian.mysociety.org squeeze main diff --git a/docs/installing/script.md b/docs/installing/script.md index d4382c98f..173243dcb 100644 --- a/docs/installing/script.md +++ b/docs/installing/script.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Note that there are [other ways to install Alaveteli]({{ site.baseurl }}docs/ins ## Installing with the installation script -If you have a clean installation of Debian squeeze or Ubuntu precise, you can +If you have a clean installation of Debian squeeze 64-bit or Ubuntu precise, you can use an install script in our commonlib repository to set up a working instance of Alaveteli. This is not suitable for production (it runs in development mode, for example) but should set up a functional installation of the site. |