Install packages
Install Ruby enterprise
Install Sphinx
Install Apache ActiveMQ
Fetch Gitorious
Install Ruby gems
Configure services
Configure Apache2
Configure Gitorious
Finish
Console User Administration
Files

This article is a rip off Setting up gitorious on your own server and UbuntuInstallation. Many thanks to the authors of those documents for the work they've put in. I've added only slight modifications that are specific to Debian Squeeze.

The following steps should take you from a freshly installed copy of Debian Squeeze 6.0.0 to a fully functioning Gitorious server.

Install packages

# If you use MariaDB instead of MySQL, s/mysql/mariadb/g
sudo aptitude update  
sudo aptitude install build-essential zlib1g-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev \  
            apache2 mysql-server mysql-client apg geoip-bin libgeoip1 \  
            libgeoip-dev libpcre3 libpcre3-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libyaml-dev \  
            libmysqlclient-dev apache2-dev libonig-dev zip unzip memcached \  
            git-core git-svn git-doc git-cvs libreadline-dev openjdk-6-jre \  
            sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libmagick++3 libmagick++-dev libapache2-mod-xsendfile \  
            libxslt1-dev libreadline5

Install Ruby enterprise

I'm already using Phusion’s Ruby Enterprise Edition (REE) + passenger combination for other web services on this host. The following is for the latest release (currently 1.8.7-2011.01). I use the default install location (/opt). Linking gem, rake and ruby into /usr/local/bin is optional. I do find that it prevents having to set PATH in a number of different scripts seperately. Please update me if there’s a better way to do this.

wget http://rubyenterpriseedition.googlecode.com/files/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03.tar.gz
tar zxf ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03.tar.gz  
sudo ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03/installer  
cd /opt && sudo ln -s ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03/ ruby-enterprise  
sudo ln -s /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/ruby /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/rake /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/gem /usr/local/bin

Install Sphinx

Compile latest version (currently 2.0.3)

wget http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.0.3-release.tar.gz
tar zxf sphinx-2.0.3-release.tar.gz && cd sphinx-2.0.3  
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx-2.0.3  
make && sudo make install  
cd /usr/local && sudo ln -s sphinx-2.0.3 sphinx  
sudo ln -s /usr/local/sphinx/bin/* /usr/local/bin

Install Apache ActiveMQ

Download the latest binaries (currently 5.5.1):

tar zxf apache-activemq-5.5.1-bin.tar.gz
sudo mv apache-activemq-5.5.1 /usr/local  
cd /usr/local && sudo ln -s apache-activemq-5.5.1 apache-activemq && cd apache-activemq  
sudo bin/activemq setup /etc/default/activemq && sudo chmod 600 /etc/default/activemq  
sudo adduser --system --no-create-home --home /usr/local/apache-activemq --shell /bin/bash activemq  
sudo chown -R activemq:nogroup /usr/local/apache-activemq-5.5.1

Edit /etc/default/activemq and add to the beginning of the file:

ACTIVEMQ_HOME=/usr/local/apache-activemq

And change the ACTIVEMQ_USER= line to read:

ACTIVEMQ_USER="activemq"

Edit /usr/local/apache-activemq/conf/activemq.xml. Comment out the existing transportConnector line and add the stomp protocol. The section should look like the following:

    <transportConnectors>
        <!--  
          <transportConnector name="openwire" uri="tcp://0.0.0.0:61616"/>  
        -->  
        <transportConnector name="stomp" uri="stomp://localhost:61613"/>  
    </transportConnectors>

Fetch Gitorious

sudo git clone git://gitorious.org/gitorious/mainline.git /var/www/gitorious

— or —

sudo git clone http://git.gitorious.org/gitorious/mainline.git /var/www/gitorious

With release 2.0.0 gitorious began tagging releases as outlined here. This provides for cleaner and hopefully safer transitions between versions. For each new version, I basically checkout a new branch based off a tag. That way, I can make changes or merge into my own branch.
git checkout -b my2.1.1 v2.1.1

Install Ruby gems

For this, I gave my git user temporary sudo access. You could just execute this as root as well.

cd /var/www/gitorious &&  /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/bundle install

Configure services

Copy Sphinx and git-daemon scripts from gitorious/doc/templates/ubuntu to /etc/init.d; change Ruby interpreter in git-daemon if you used a non-default location. Also, you’ll want to change the Provides line in these scripts to something without spaces. I've used gitorious-git-daemon and gitorious-ultrasphinx.
```
  cd /var/www/gitorious/doc/templates/ubuntu
  sudo cp git-daemon git-ultrasphinx /etc/init.d  
```
Create poller init script (see Files below)
```
  sudo vi /etc/init.d/git-poller
```
Create activemq init script (see Files below)
```
  sudo vi /etc/init.d/activemq
```
Copy gitorious-logrotate from gitorious/doc/templates/ubuntu to /etc/logrotate.d/gitorious
```
  sudo cp gitorious-logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/gitorious
```

Make init scripts run at startup

  sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/git-ultrasphinx /etc/init.d/git-daemon /etc/init.d/git-poller /etc/init.d/activemq
  sudo insserv /etc/init.d/git-ultrasphinx /etc/init.d/git-daemon /etc/init.d/git-poller /etc/init.d/activemq

Link the gitorious script into /usr/local/bin

  sudo ln -s /var/www/gitorious/script/gitorious /usr/local/bin/

Configure Apache2

Install Passenger

  sudo /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module
  if you get an error make this before to continue ( sudo /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/gem install passenger)

Create /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.load:

  LoadModule passenger_module /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.5/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
  PassengerRoot /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.5  
  PassengerRuby /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/ruby

Enable needed modules

  sudo a2enmod passenger rewrite ssl xsendfile

Create /etc/apache2/sites-available/gitorious (see Files below)
Create /etc/apache2/sites-available/gitorious-ssl (see Files below)

Disable the default sites and enable the Gitorious sites

  sudo a2dissite default default-ssl
  sudo a2ensite gitorious gitorious-ssl

Restart Apache
```
  sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
```

Configure Gitorious

Add a git user to MySQL:

  mysql -u root -p
      create database gitorious_production;  
      grant all privileges on gitorious_production.* to 'git'@'localhost' identified by 'YOUR_PASSWORD';

Run the following

  sudo adduser --system --home /var/www/gitorious --no-create-home --group --shell /bin/bash git
  sudo chown -R git:git /var/www/gitorious  
  sudo su - git  
  git submodule init  
  git submodule update  
  mkdir .ssh  
  touch .ssh/authorized_keys  
  chmod -R go-rwx .ssh  
  mkdir tmp/pids repositories tarballs  tarballs-work  
  cp config/database.sample.yml config/database.yml  
  cp config/gitorious.sample.yml config/gitorious.yml  
  cp config/broker.yml.example config/broker.yml

Edit config/database.yml: Remove every section but production
- username should be git
- password should be the password indicated in 2 before sections
Edit config/gitorious.yml: Remove every section but production
- repository_base_path should be something like /var/www/gitorious/repositories
- gitorious_client_port should be 80
- gitorious_host needs to be the exact hostname that clients will use (cookies get messed up otherwise)
- archive_cache_dir should be something like /var/www/gitorious/tarballs
- archive_work_dir should be something like /var/www/gitorious/tarballs-work
- hide_http_clone_urls should be true (they require extra unknown setup to work)
- is_gitorious_dot_org should be false
Run the following

export RAILS_ENV=production
bundle exec rake db:create
bundle exec rake db:migrate
export PATH=/usr/local/sphinx/bin:$PATH
bundle exec rake ultrasphinx:bootstrap

crontab -e
```
PATH=/usr/local/sphinx/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
* * * * * cd /var/www/gitorious && /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/bundle exec /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/rake ultrasphinx:index RAILS_ENV=production
```

Also see Configuration.

Finish

sudo /etc/init.d/git-daemon start
sudo /etc/init.d/git-ultrasphinx start  
sudo /etc/init.d/activemq start  
sudo /etc/init.d/git-poller start  
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Create a Admin User as User ‘git’:

 env RAILS_ENV=production script/create_admin

Console User Administration

Delete a User

 env RAILS_ENV=production script/console
 > user = User.find_by_login "Username"  
 > user.destroy

Create Roles

  env RAILS_ENV=production script/console
  > Role.create!(:name => "Member", :kind => Role::KIND_MEMBER)  
  > Role.create!(:name => "Administrator", :kind => Role::KIND_ADMIN)

Files

/etc/apache2/sites-available/gitorious

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /var/www/gitorious/public  

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/gitorious-error.log  
        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,  
        # alert, emerg.  
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/gitorious-access.log combined

        <IfModule mod_xsendfile.c>  
                XSendFile on  
                XSendFileAllowAbove on  
        </IfModule>


</VirtualHost>

/etc/apache2/sites-available/gitorious-ssl

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost _default_:443>  
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    DocumentRoot /var/www/gitorious/public

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/gitorious-error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,  
    # alert, emerg.  
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/gitorious-ssl_access.log combined

    SSLEngine on

    SSLCertificateFile    /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem  
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

    BrowserMatch ".*MSIE.*" \  
            nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \  
            downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

    <IfModule mod_xsendfile.c>  
            XSendFile on  
            XSendFileAllowAbove on  
    </IfModule>


</VirtualHost>  
</IfModule>

/etc/init.d/activemq

#!/bin/sh -e
### BEGIN INIT INFO  
# Provides:          activemq  
# Required-Start:    $network $local_fs  
# Required-Stop:     $network $local_fs  
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5  
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6  
# Short-Description: Start/stop activemq for stomp services.  
### END INIT INFO  

/usr/local/apache-activemq/bin/activemq "$@"

/etc/init.d/git-poller

#!/bin/sh
# Start/stop the git poller  
#  
### BEGIN INIT INFO  
# Provides:          git-poller  
# Required-Start:    activemq  
# Required-Stop:  activemq  
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5  
# Default-Stop:      1  
# Short-Description: Gitorious poller  
# Description:       Gitorious poller  
### END INIT INFO  

/bin/su - git -c "cd /var/www/gitorious;RAILS_ENV=production script/poller $@"