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| author | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-08-19 15:25:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Gareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org> | 2014-08-21 17:38:22 +0100 |
| commit | 9c5e30bdefe40f270f8285e75aa1445de1e7bf2c (patch) | |
| tree | 303d38b69d136c82a0c448a684eadbdb27aec943 | |
| parent | c347544f15e89341aff865ed6bd90bc9e904cbfc (diff) | |
Set environment for init scripts.
Also, add note about setting staging_site. If you don't do this, init scripts don't run in production unless you set the RAILS_ENV in them explicitly. With staging_site set, rails-post-deploy creates config/rails_env.rb to force the production environment.
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/installing/manual_install.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/installing/manual_install.md b/docs/installing/manual_install.md index 51b5fb56b..98e1a4d10 100644 --- a/docs/installing/manual_install.md +++ b/docs/installing/manual_install.md @@ -357,6 +357,10 @@ As the user needs the ability to turn off constraints whilst running the tests t We have a full [guide to Alaveteli configuration]({{ site.baseurl }}docs/customising/config/) which covers all the settings in `config/general.yml`. +_Note:_ If you are setting up Alaveteli to run in production, set the [`STAGING_SITE`]({{ site.baseurl }}docs/customising/config/#staging_site) variable to `0` in `/var/www/alaveteli/config/general.yml` now. + + STAGING_SITE: 0 + The default settings for frontpage examples are designed to work with the dummy data shipped with Alaveteli; once you have real data, you should certainly edit these. @@ -567,7 +571,7 @@ There is a rake task that will help to rewrite this file into one that is useful to you. Change the variables to suit your installation. pushd /var/www/alaveteli - bundle exec rake config_files:convert_init_script \ + bundle exec rake RAILS_ENV=production config_files:convert_init_script \ DEPLOY_USER=alaveteli \ VHOST_DIR=/var/www \ VCSPATH=alaveteli \ @@ -601,7 +605,7 @@ There is a rake task that will help to rewrite this file into one that is useful to you. Change the variables to suit your installation. pushd /var/www/alaveteli - bundle exec rake config_files:convert_init_script \ + bundle exec rake RAILS_ENV=production config_files:convert_init_script \ DEPLOY_USER=alaveteli \ VHOST_DIR=/var/www \ VCSPATH=alaveteli \ |