I am fairly new to Middleman and I would like to transfer my files with rsync. I have paswordless SSH access but every time I try do middleman deploy it asks me for a password. And if I type in cPanel password it says it isn't right and I can't rsync it.
I'm using this gem. It says:
activate :deploy do |deploy|
deploy.deploy_method = :rsync
deploy.host = 'www.mysite.com'
deploy.path = '/'
end
What am I missing here? FYI I'm using Namecheap and I tried to use their port.
If your username on the server is different to your username on your local machine, you might need to set deploy.user in your config.rb to log in.
In my experience, it's better to set up Middleman deployments using Rake to configure shell commands. For me, the middleman-deploy gem didn't abstract away enough complexity to make it worth it to configure.
If you set up your local SSH environment to connect to your server without the use of a password it makes this especially quick. I set up a rakefile that looks like this:
# rakefile
server = "webserver.someurl.com"
remote_path = "/srv/html/"
permissions = "--chmod=Du=rwx,Dg=rx,Do=rx,Fu=rw,Fg=r,Fo=r"
task :deploy do
sh "middleman build"
sh "rsync -rDv build/ #{server}:#{remote_path} --delete #{permissions}"
end
Then I can run my deployment with rake deploy.
There's more detail in my Boilerplate Middleman project if you want to check it out.
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Due to the need to direct shiny-server logs to stdout so that "docker logs" (and monitoring utilities relying on it) can see them i'm trying to do some kind of :
tail -f <logs_directory>/*
Which works as needed when no new files are added to the directory, the problem is shiny-server dynamically creates files in this directory which we need to automatically consider.
I found other users have solved this via the xtail package, the problem is i'm using Centos and xtail is not available for centos.
The question is , is there any "clean" way of doing this via standard tail command without needing xtail ? or maybe there exists an equivalent package to xtail for centos?
You will probably find it easier to use the docker run -v option to mount a host directory into the container and collect logs there. Then you can use any tool you want that collects log files out of a directory (logstash is popular but far from the only option) to collect those log files.
This also avoids the problem of having to both run your program and a log collector inside your container; you can just run the service as the main container process, and not have to do gymnastics with tail and supervisord and whatever else to try to keep everything running.
I have a Google Compute Engine VM instance with a Asterisk Server running on it. I get this message when I try to run sudo:
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 21
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
Is there a password for root so I can try to change it there? Any suggestions on this?
It looks like you have manually edited the /etc/sudoers file so while you would normally have sudo access, due to the parse error, you won't be able to do this directly.
Here's how to fix this situation.
1. Save the current boot disk
go to to the instance view in Developers Console
find your VM instance and click on its name; you should now be looking at a URL such as
https://console.cloud.google.com/project/[PROJECT]/compute/instancesDetail/zones/[ZONE]/instances/[VM-NAME]
stop the instance
detach the boot disk from the instance
2. Fix the /etc/sudoers on the boot disk
create a new VM instance with its own boot disk; you should have sudo access here
attach the disk saved above as a separate persistent disk
mount the disk you just attached
fix the /etc/sudoers file on the disk
unmount the second disk
detach the second disk from the VM
delete the new VM instance (let it delete its boot disk, you won't need it)
3. Restore the original VM instance
re-attach the boot disk to the original VM
restart the original VM with its original boot disk, with fixed config
How to avoid this in the future
Always use the command visudo rather just any text editor directly to edit the /etc/sudoers file which will validate the contents of the file prior to saving it.
I ran into this issue as well and had the same issue Nakilon was reporting when trying the gcloud workaround.
What we ended up doing was configure a startup script that removed the broken sudoers file.
So in your metadata put something like:
#/bin/sh
rm "/etc/sudoers.d/broken-config-file"
echo "ok" > /tmp/ok.log
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/startupscript
As you probably figured out this requires the /etc/sudoers file to be fixed. As nobody has root access to the instance, you will not be able to do this from inside the instance.
The best way to solve this is to edit the disk from another instance. The basic steps to do this are:
Take a snapshot of your disk as a backup (!)
Shutdown your instance, taking care not to delete the boot disk.
Start a new "debugger" instance from one of the stock GCE images.
Attach the old boot disk to the new instance.
In the debugger instance, mount the disk.
In the debugger instance, fix the sudoers file on the mounted disk.
In the debugger instance, unmount the disk
Shutdown the debugger instance.
Create a new instance with the same specs as your original instance using the fixed disk as the boot disk.
The new disk will then have the fixed sudoers file.
Since i bumped into this issue too, if you have another instance or any place where you can run with gcloud privileges, you can run:
gcloud compute --project "<project id>" ssh --zone "europe-west1-b" "<servername>"
I ran this on a server which had gcloud as root, so you login to the other box as root too! Then fix your issue. (if you don't have a box, just spin a micro up with the correct gcloud privileges) saves the hassle of disk stuff etc.
As mentioned in above comments, I am getting the same error like below in gcp VM.
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 21
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
To solve this
I have ssh to another vm and become root then I ran gcloud ssh command to our main vm (where you are getting the sudo error.)
gcloud compute --project "<project id>" ssh --zone "europe-west1-b "<servername>"
And BOOM!, now are login as root in the VM.
Now you can access/change the /etc/sudoers file accordingly.
I found this hack better than recreating vm/disks.
Hope this helps to someone!
It is possible to connect to a VM as root from your developers console Google Cloud Shell. Make sure the VM is running, start the shell and use this command:
gcloud compute ssh root#<instance-name> --zone <zone> [--project <project-id>]
where instance-name is found in the Compute Engine VM Instances screen. project-id is optional but required if you are connecting to an instance in a different project from the project where you started the shell.
You can then fix this and other issues that may prevent you from using sudo.
I got a Permission denied error when trying to ssh to the problem instance via gcloud. Using a startup script as mentioned above by #Jorick works. Instructions for it are here. You will have to stop and restart the VM instance for the startup script to get executed. I modified the script slightly:
rm -f /etc/sudoers.d/google_sudoers >& /tmp/startup.log
After the restart, launch an SSH session from the cloud console and check that you are able to view the file contents (with sudo more /etc/sudoers.d/google_sudoers for example). If that works your problem has been solved.
is it possible to see access log / and Apache log as we see for Apache server to check what going with meteor server. ? can i look it as a domain or as a whole servers?
If you are using meteor-up to deploy your applications into your own server (which I recommend and should save you a lot of time on the long run), you can access your logs at: /var/log/upstart/app.log.
This will even allow you to tail logs from the server in your local application directory by running:
mup logs -f # it supports all the options of tail
Also, if you want to reset your logs:
cd /var/log/upstart/
sudo cat /dev/null > app.log
well, depends on how fancy you want to go, it could be as simple as:
meteor > /var/log/meteor.log
it redirect the output to /var/log/meteor.log
if that doesnt float your boat, there are a bunch of packages pre-made for that, of which this one looks like the most flexible:
https://atmospherejs.com/package/trail
I am trying to convert Varying Vagrant Vagrant's wordpress-trunk (or development) site to be provisioned via git instead of svn.
There seems to be a script (I presume it is a script even though it has no file extension) as part of the VVV project that will switch after the machine has been provisioned:
https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV/blob/master/config/homebin/develop_git
And the author told me that running the following from command line should do it:
vagrant ssh -c "develop_git"
but when I run that I get the following error:
Unknown cipher type 'develop_git'
There appears to be some code in the provision script that mentions git, but I have no idea what I am looking at.
So, does anyone know how to run/implement that script? Or otherwise convert the www/wordpress-trunk folder to git? Are there options somewhere to direct VVV to provision the trunk folder from git in the first place?
Contrary to the Vagrant-Documentation of vagrant ssh the -c option is delivered to the ssh command and therefore interpreted as the cipher-specification.
I would suggest you to try vagrant ssh -- "develop_git", since everything after "-- (two hyphens)[is] passed directly into the ssh executable".
I run my meteor app on EC2 like this: node main.js (in tmux session)
Here are the steps I use to update my meteor app:
1) meteor bundle app.tgz
2) scp app.tgz EC2-server:/path
3) ssh EC2-server and attach to tmux
4) kill the current meteor-node process by C-c
5) extract app.tgz
6) run "node main.js" of the extracted app.tgz
Is this the standard practice?
I realize forever can be used too but still do you have to kill the old node process and start a new one every time I update my app? Can the upgrade be more seamless without killing the Node process?
You can't do this without killing the node process, but I haven't found that really matters. What's actually more annoying is the browser refresh on the client, but there isn't much you can do about that.
First, let's assume the application is already running. We start our app via forever with a script like the one in my answer here. I'd show you my whole upgrade script but it contains all kinds of Edthena-specific stuff, so I'll outline the steps we take below:
Build a new bundle. We do this on the server itself, which avoids any missing fibers issues. The bundle file is written to /home/ubuntu/apps/edthena/edthena.tar.gz.
We cd into the /home/ubuntu/apps/edthena directory and rm -rf bundle. That will blow away the files used by the current running process. Because the server is still running in memory it will keep executing. However, this step is problematic if your app regularly does uncached disk operatons like reading from the private directory after startup. We don't, and all of the static assets are served by nginx, so I feel safe in doing this. Alternatively, you can move the old bundle directory to something like bundle.old and it should work.
tar xzf edthena.tar.gz
cd bundle/programs/server && npm install
forever restart /home/ubuntu/apps/edthena/bundle/main.js
There really isn't any downtime with this approach - it just restarts the app in the same way it would if the server threw an exception. Forever also keeps the environment from your original script, so you don't need to specify your environment variables again.
Finally, you can have a look at the log files in your ~/.forever directory. The exact path can be found via forever list.
David's method is better than this once, because there's less downtime when using forever restart compared to forever stop; ...; forever start.
Here's the deploy script spelled out, using the latter technique. In ~/MyApp, I run this bash script:
echo "Meteor bundling..."
meteor bundle myapp.tgz
mkdir ~/myapp.prod 2> /dev/null
cd ~/myapp.prod
forever stop myapp.js
rm -rf bundle
echo "Unpacking bundle"
tar xzf ~/MyApp/myapp.tgz
mv bundle/main.js bundle/myapp.js
# `pwd` is there because ./myapp.log would create the log in ~/.forever/myapp.log actually
PORT=3030 ROOT_URL=http://myapp.example.com MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/myapp forever -a -l `pwd`/myapp.log start myapp.js
You're asking about best practices.
I'd recommend mup and cluster
They allow for horizontal scaling, and a bunch of other nice features, while using simple commands and configuration.