CartoDB is a beautiful beast but it takes some time to get all its components ( 1 rails app, 2 nodejs apps, postgis, redis, varnish, mapnik, nginx … ) to work in harmony. Assembling it was an interesting odyssey though which pushed me to read cartodb’s ruby & javascript source code (Windshaft & CartoDB-sql-api ) itself to get things rolling. To avoid this constructive pain to others I am proposing two ubuntu distributions with CartoDB (version 1) pre-installed .
An Amazon EC2 AMI: https://aws.amazon.com/amis/cartodb-ubuntu11-10-server
system : ubuntu server 11.10 x86 64 bit
user : ubuntu
authentication : instance ssh keypair
Requirements:
- open ports 22, 80, 8080, 8181 (optionally 8282 ) in your instance security group
- point devuser.localhost.lan & admin.localhost.lan to the IP of the instance in your hosts file (on your machine, not on the AMI)
( 22: ssh, 80 : varnish, 8080 : cartodb sql api,
8181 : windshaft tileserver, 8282: rails cartodb app)
remote access via freenx : ubuntu / ubuntu
CartoDB urls : http://devuser.localhost.lan (user/password: devuser/devuser) , http://admin.localhost.lan (user/password: admin/admin)
Try it free during one year on a Amazon Free Usage Tier Micro Instance : http://aws.amazon.com/en/free/
A vmware vmdk Virtual Machine : https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B7MWSdtS_8wWTjg5YmNHeDdIRUU/edit for download
system : ubuntu server 11.10 x86 64 bit
user : cartodb
password: cartodb
ports: all open
connection : ssh , freenx ( user/password : cartodb/cartodb)
The vmware VM is configured with a static IP ( 172.16.192.192) so you if you use vmware/vmplayer you need to run the Virtual Network Editor and change the NAT interface ( in my case VMnet8 ) to use 172.16.192.0 as Subnet IP . On Windows get the Virtual Network Editor vmnetcfg.exe using following
instructions : http://rednectar.net/2011/07/20/finding-vmnetcfg-exe-in-vmware-player-3-1-4/
or http://communities.vmware.com/message/1853079
CartoDB urls : http://devuser.localhost.lan (user/password: devuser/devuser) , http://admin.localhost.lan (user/password: admin/admin)
freenx session configuration (Nomachine NX client , openNX ) :
use Unix custom settings :
– Run the following command :
exec openbox-session
– New virtual desktop
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