rodesia.org

Installing Mephisto on Bluehost

It's not a completely trivial installation, so here's what I did:

• Login to your account (you need to have ssh access)
• Install Subversion on your machine http://www.bluehostforum.com/archive/index.php/t-134.html
• Create a database for mephisto

• Install Mephisto:

  cd
  mkdir rails
  cd rails
  mkdir mephisto
  svn co http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/mephisto/trunk mephisto
  cd mephisto/vendor
  wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12582/tzinfo-0.3.1.tar.gz
  tar xzvf tzinfo-0.3.1.tar.gz
  rm tzinfo-0.3.1.tar.gz
  cd ../..
  rake rails:freeze:edge
  

• Update your config/database.yml

• In config/environment.rb uncomment:

  ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production'
  

• Back in the terminal, setup the database:

  cd ~/rails/mephisto
  rake RAILS_ENV=production db:bootstrap
  

• Create a symbolic link to your rails mephisto install

  cd ~/public_html
  ln -s /home/YOUR_USERNAME/rails/mephisto/public mephisto
  

• Create a subdomain 'mephisto' with cPanel

• That's it! Your blog should be accessible from http://mephisto.yourdomain.com
• Go to http://mephisto.yourdomain.com/admin and login with admin/test to start your weblog.

Feel free to replace the name mephisto for the name you want to give to your weblog.
If the link to tzinfo is no longer correct, go to http://rubyforge.org/projects/tzinfo/ and get the correct one.

Good luck with your installation, and let me know about any problems, or just post a link of your new blog!

Redesign

Welcome to the new rodesia.org, finally I've put my mind to redesign the whole site, and this is the result!

The graphic layout looks much sharper, with soft colours, gradients and transparency effects. As for the back-end I've switched from a simplistic self-built PHP content management system (CMS) to Mephisto a Ruby on Rails Blog that although young is already showing a lot of potential.