# Alternative Install Options Here lie some alternative installation options for Discourse. They're not the recommended way of doing things, hence they're a bit out of the way. Oh, and dragons. Lots of dragons. ## Web Server Alternative: apache2 If you instead want to use apache2 to serve the static pages: # Run these commands as your normal login (e.g. "michael") # If you don't have apache2 yet sudo apt-get install apache2 # Edit your site details in a new apache2 config file sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/your-domain.com # Put these info inside and change accordingly <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName your-domain.com ServerAlias www.your-domain.com DocumentRoot /srv/www/apps/discourse/public <Directory /srv/www/apps/discourse/public> AllowOverride all Options -MultiViews </Directory> # Custom log file locations ErrorLog /srv/www/apps/discourse/log/error.log CustomLog /srv/www/apps/discourse/access.log combined </VirtualHost> # Install the Passenger Phusion gem and run the install gem install passenger passenger-install-apache2-module # Next, we "create" a new apache2 module, passenger sudo vim /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.load # Inside paste (change the user accodingly) LoadModule passenger_module /home/YOUR-USER/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/passenger-4.0.2/libout/apache2/mod_passenger.so # Now the passenger module configuration sudo vim /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.conf # Inside, paste (change the user accodingly) PassengerRoot /home/YOUR-USER/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/passenger-4.0.2 PassengerDefaultRuby /home/YOUR-USER/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.0.0-p0/ruby # Now activate them all sudo a2ensite your-domain.com sudo a2enmod passenger sudo service apache2 reload sudo service apache2 restart If you get any errors starting or reloading apache, please check the paths above - Ruby 2.0 should be there if you are using RVM, but it could get tricky. ## RVM Alternative: Systemwide installation Taken from http://rvm.io/, the commands below installs RVM and users in the 'rvm' group have access to modify state: # Run these commands as your normal login (e.g. "michael") \curl -s -S -L https://get.rvm.io | sudo bash -s stable sudo adduser $USER rvm newgrp rvm . /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh rvm requirements # Build and install ruby rvm install 2.0.0 gem install bundler When creating the `discourse` user, add him/her/it to the RVM group: # Run these commands as your normal login (e.g. "michael") sudo adduser discourse rvm RVM will be located in `/usr/local/rvm` directory instead of `/home/discourse/.rvm`, so update the crontab line respectively.