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authorDavid Cabo <david@calibea.com>2011-10-13 00:29:51 +0200
committerDavid Cabo <david@calibea.com>2011-10-13 00:29:51 +0200
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@@ -36,7 +36,16 @@ code. Run:
git submodule update --init
-to fetch the contents of the submodules.
+to fetch the contents of the submodules.
+
+Optionally, you may want to install
+[wkhtmltopdf](http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list).
+We recommend downloading the latest, statically compiled version from
+the project website, as this allows running headless (i.e. without a
+graphical interface running) on Linux. If you do install
+`wkhtmltopdf`, you need to edit a setting in the config file to point
+to it (see below).
+
# Configure Database
@@ -228,7 +237,12 @@ It is not recommended to run the website using the default Rails web
server. There are various recommendations here:
http://rubyonrails.org/deploy
-We usually use Passenger / mod_rails.
+We usually use Passenger / mod_rails. The file at `conf/httpd.conf`
+contains the WhatDoTheyKnow settings. At a minimum, you should
+include the following in an Apache configuration file:
+
+ PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on
+ PassengerMaxPoolSize 6 # Recommend setting this to 3 or less on servers with 512MB RAM
Under all but light loads, it is strongly recommended to run the
server behind an http accelerator like Varnish. A sample varnish VCL