On 20 May 2013 14:51, Harry Percival <harry.perci...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting points both. I think it's insightful to think about the line > beween provisioning and deployment... The idea that deployment shouldn't > require root permissions is a good stake in the ground. > > In the book I've decided I'm going to take people through spinning up a > server with Apache, and configuring two virtualhosts with mod_wsgi, one for > staging and one for production. We negotiate the gotchas, including > setting up static files, using absolute paths and getting the permissions > right for the (sqlite) database, etc. > > Then, deployment is a matter of updating the source code, updating any > static files, and bouncing apache. > > Provisioning: > - spinning up a server > - installing apache > - configuring apache > > Deployment: > -updating source code > -updating static files > -migrate database > -restart apache > > For those, the root/non-root perms thing holds pretty well, apart from the > "restart apache" bit... And, up to a certain point, what I talk about > under "provisioning" is stuff that might vary from platform to platform, > but stuff under "deployment" should be more universal... > > you shouldn't need to restart apache/nginx. Touch the wsgi file and that part should restart automatically.
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