Installing gitorious on Ubuntu 10.04 HOWTO
I like using Git for my projects and I tend to host them outside of the computer I work on. I was finding the current way I was managing projects a bit cubersome so I decided to install Gitorious which gives you a nice web interface to manage it all!
Here are some instructions on installing Gitorious on your own Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server. The instructions from gitorious were a little out of date/confusing so I thought I would show you what I did to get it working successfully. It is based upon instructions from both gitorious' own instructions and some others they link to, plus some other digging/googling around [1], [2] and [3].
Updated: Added some fixes/clarifications from the comments below! (If you spot any errors do please tell me!)
A few notes on this tutorial: Firstly - This tutorial is approaching it's first birthday which means (as with all things like this) it is getting somewhat outdated. With that in mind - approach with trepidation. I would read up on the relevant documentation from the developers yourself and make up your mind how helpful / relevant to you this whole process is.
Secondly - I have now moved to indefero (see http://www.indefero.net/open-source/) this is a lot easier to install and manage - offers all of the functionality that I have needed - which more than makes up for the lack of prettiness that gitorious had...
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Introduction
This tutoral/HOWTO is designed to help you setup an rsync back/dropbox style synced folder on the Netgear stora. The aim of this is to have a synced folder that will automatically back up to a remote location. The main reason that I wanted to do this was so that I could have a folder of documents backed up to my VPS and synced to my work machine and laptops.
It is similar in style to the 'dropbox' service. It is largely based on this HOWTO. It just covers a number of points for installing on the Stora!
This guide assumes you have a fully working package management system as described here - Installing a package manager and also assumes that you have SSH fully working.
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So I decided to take a leap and move VPS providers. Moving servers turns out to be hard work. Here is a list of useful stuff that I had to dig out again when setting up the new one -
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