Ubuntu - Nginx + Tomcat + Railo guide for Linode

[stofke]

I wrote a guide on how to setup a web-server based on an ubuntu
install on linode. Since I bought a VPS at Linode.com I needed to
setup ColdFusion on Wheels on it and decided to document it for myself
but maybe it's useful for others too.

I have been thinking about where to host my site and I have considered
a few options going from hosting in the cloud on Jelastic or
Cloudbees to one of the few Coldfusion hosting companies around.

Cloudbased hosting is just to limiting on what you can do on the
server (apart from Amazon maybe?). Amazon I found a bit intimidating
but I might look at it later. Most hosting solutions are also
limited. I want to be able to run anything I want on the server,
choose which version of software and not only Coldfusion but also PHP,
Ruby on Rails, things like MongoDB or Varnish ...etc.

Then one day visiting a site of Ruby on Rails developers I saw they
were using Linode, so intrigued I went to see what it was all about.
I was pleasantly surprised, it's basically a VPS with cloud-like
scaling.

Linode has excellent documentation which is easy to understand, it's
scalable horizontal and vertical and allows me to setup anything I
need on my ubuntu server. I can also clone my server and backup my
entire server and it's affordable. It also has a location not only in
the US but also in the UK what's good for European clients.

It took me some time to figure it all out but I really like the fact I
can now control my server over SSH & Webmin.

This guide is not specifically aimed at ColdFusion on Wheels but once
the server is configured, it's just a matter of dropping your
ColdFusion on Wheels project in it to get it working.

http://stofke72.github.com/linode/

If there are mistakes (probably as I'm far from a server expert),
things I forgot or omitted or stuff I can add, please let me know so
I can adjust the guide.

[Tom King]

+1 for linode, they're awesome.

I've got a not dissamilar setup; Railo / Apache / TomCat / MySQL / PHP all on one box. Very useful :)

[tpet...@gmail.com]

my god man is that one nice looking article :) I also love the fact that you used github pages for hosting it ;)

this gets me wondering. We used to have a cookingwheels website where the community could post articles and general tips on using cfwheels. Seeing the use of github pages though gets me wondering if this is all you really need. when you think about it, all cookingwheels was was a glorified blog and github pages has that functionality built right in. Not to mention that you get version control and collaboration for free.

What do you all think? Think it's time to have a tips and tricks site again for CFWheels?

[stofke]

Tony good idea about the cooking wheels website, too bad it's gone (or
at least I can't find it anymore). Github pages could be setup on
cooking wheels repo. We could then fork it and add stuff to it and
merge. It couldn't disappear this way. Github is very nice since you
can use markdown to write the article, so you can concentrate on the
content rather than having to worry about html or css.

On 16 nov, 17:33, "tpetru...@gmail.com" <tpetru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> my god man is that one nice looking article :) I also love the fact that
> you used github pages for hosting it ;)
>

> this gets me wondering. We used to have a cooking wheels website where the