What is the absolute fastest way to swap a directory and all its contents?
Rino Bino asked: I have a regular task that I need to swap out a live/accessed dir with a new version of it. There is a live dir with resources …
WP-DEPLOY : Cannot Push database
Jeremy Dixon asked: So I’ve been trying to set up Wp-Deploy for about 3 weeks now 🙁 I have a digitalocean droplet that I am using for staging and was …
Package and Deploy Linux Binary
jcarpenter2 asked: Can you list all .so files referenced by a binary? This is to package and deploy a binary along with all .so files it needs to servers. As …
Ansible Multiple Application Role Approach
MetalRufflez asked: Just for a bit of background, I’ve worked with Puppet for 3 years and I understood it’s architecture pretty well. Our company is refactoring our whole product basing …
Execute copy and set only if something changed
Nico Schlömer asked: For Ansible, I have a role that sets the time zone and populates the setting the (Ubuntu) base system, – name: set timezone copy: content=’Europe/Berlin’ dest=/etc/timezone owner=root …
atomic deployments with Nginx and PHP FPM
cirpo asked: I’m trying to get atomic deployments, I don’t want to lose/drop any requests. I deploy the code using Capistrano, classic situation were you have a ‘current’ dir that …
How to access original files from before a symlink gets updated, which have since been moved to another dir
Luke Cousins asked: We have a website and our deployment process goes somewhat like the following (with lots of irrelevant steps excluded) echo “Remove previous, if it exists, we don’t …
Permission to write using 'deploy' user
Ben asked: I’m currently new to Chef and Capistrano. I’m using version 3.x of Capistrano to deploy Rails 4 application. I have successfully bootstrapped a server using chef solo. One …
Deploying Openstack without internet access
user181241 asked: I have about a dozen rather beefy machines on a separate network. This network is not (will not be, cannot be) connected to the internet. I’d like to …
SSL apache2 settings no pointing to rails4 app
manoj2411 asked: My apache config /etc/apache2/apache2.conf is: <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName www.bollymovi.es DocumentRoot /home/fizzy/bollyflix/production/current/public SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /home/app/certs/bollymovi.es.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /home/app/certs/bollymovi.key SSLCertificateChainFile /home/app/certs/gd_bundle-g2.crt SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1 +SSLv3 SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:+SHA1:+MD5:+HIGH:+MEDIUM </VirtualHost> It is …