Diaspora on FreeBSD

PLEASE NOTE: This content contains outdated and possibly irrelevant information.

This is my collection of notes and specs for installing a Diaspora project pod instance on FreeBSD 8.2, which is the setup I was using at the create-o-plex pod before I stopped operating it.

Image of Diaspora* logo

I refer to these notes along with the Diaspora* installation instructions to get set up and running.

Install prerequisite ports

You should update and install these ports before you clone the Diaspora GitHub repository:

git
ImageMagick
libxml2
mysql51-server
www/nginx
redis
ruby19
sqlite3

Install bundler

You need Ruby bundler for use with Diaspora, so install it.

sudo gem install bundler

Example Configuration

These are examples and snippets based on the configuration files I use in my FreeBSD based setup. Please note that my setup was experimental, and although it ran in production mode, it supported a limited number of users, and ran on a server with modest resources.

These examples are just that. YMMV, etc. ;)

Example /usr/local/etc/redis.conf

daemonize yes
pidfile /var/run/redis/redis.pid
bind 127.0.0.1
port 6379
timeout 300
loglevel verbose
logfile /path_to_log_dir/redis/redis.log
databases 16
save 900 1
save 300 10
save 60 10000
rdbcompression yes
dbfilename dump.rdb
dir /home/db/redis/
appendonly no
appendfsync everysec
vm-enabled no
vm-swap-file /tmp/redis.swap
vm-max-memory 0
vm-page-size 32
vm-pages 134217728
vm-max-threads 4
glueoutputbuf yes
hash-max-zipmap-entries 64
hash-max-zipmap-value 512

Example script_server.yml

script_server:
  # Choose database. Currently supported: mysql, postgres
  db: "mysql"

  # Enable thin as application server
  enable_thin: true

  # Port on which thin should listen
  thin_port: 3000

  # We're running our Thin instances on sockets instead of ports
  default_thin_args: "--servers 3 --socket /tmp/thin.sock"

  # Possibilities are development, production
  rails_env: "production"

Example nginx.conf

Relevant snippet from the nginx.conf showing sockets for Thin:

upstream thin_cluster {
    server   unix:/tmp/thin.0.sock;
    server   unix:/tmp/thin.1.sock;
    server   unix:/tmp/thin.2.sock;
}

Notes

Bundle install notes

Include the path to the SQLite3 library so that the gem install finds it during the bundle install:

export CONFIGURE_ARGS="with-sqlite3-include=/usr/local/include"