A website/api/media-server.

This codebase currently runs the websites:

http://brighton-wok.com
http://convictfilms.com

A server, written in Go, which can be run as a standalone or behind nginx or Apache. The server requires MongoDB, MySQL and Redis.

A set of templates, css, images and Javascript libraries.

To install Vafan on a new machine. Instructions are for Oneric (11.10).

1. Install Ubuntu.

2. Install git:

    sudo apt-get install git-core
   

3. Clone vafan:

    cd /srv/
    git clone git://github.com/saulhoward/vafan.git
   

4. As root, run the setup script to install apt packages:

    cd /srv/vafan
    sudo scripts/ubuntu-setup.sh
   

5. Optionally, set up your Go environment. Eg.:

    echo "export GOPATH=/usr/lib/go" >> ~/.bashrc
    echo "export GOPATH=$GOPATH:/srv/vafan" >> ~/.bashrc
    source ~/.bashrc
   

6. Build the vafan-server command:

    cd /srv/vafan/cmd/vafan-server
    go build vafan-server.go
   

   This will complain about missing third-party libraries. You must install them, eg,

    go get code.google.com/p/gorilla/mux
   

   Some of the packages may depend on other Ubuntu packages. For example, googlecode packages use mercurial (hg), so:

    apt-get install mercurial
   

   Once they are installed, you should be able to build vafan-server.go.

7. Setup MySQL:

    mysql -u root -ppassword
    create database vafan;
    quit
    cd /srv/vafan/data/sql
    mysql -u root -ppassword vafan < users.sql
   

8. Create the config file.

    mkdir /etc/vafan
    cp /srv/vafan/config/config.ini /etc/vafan/vafan.ini
    vim /etc/vafan/vafan.ini
   

9. Daemonize, a la AG's ace blog:

    http://nf.id.au/deploying-go-web-services-behind-nginx-under
   

   Using the init.d script in the repo:

    cp /srv/vafan/scripts/vafan-init.sh /etc/init.d/vafan
    chmod +x /etc/init.d/vafan
    ln -s /srv/vafan/cmd/src/vafan-server/vafan-server /usr/sbin/vafan-server
    /etc/init.d/vafan start
    update-rc.d vafan defaults