setting up cartodb on a linux server

Server:

1. Configure a vps with linux Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) LTS Bare OS

2. Copy the content of https://github.com/mtwestra/cartodb-linux to the root directory

3. Run install-cartodb.sh

4. Halfway, the install script stalls at the postgres prompt. To get out, type 'exit' followed by enter

5. At the end of the install script, the system parts are started.

Browser:

1. The settings use user=monkey and subdomain=monkey. This means that the server expects to run from http://monkey.localhost.lan:3000/. To accomplish this, add an entry to /etc/hosts to forward this address to your VPS, for example:

xx.xxx.xx.xxx monkey.localhost.lan

2. Go to http://monkey.localhost.lan:3000/dashboard in the browser, and use the username and password as set in the settings file (in this case, both are 'monkey'). You should be able to login to the cartodb dashboard now.

You can use pgAdmin3 to connect to the guest, to see what is going on in the postgresql database. Settings:

name: whatever you like
host: localhost
port: 15432
Maintenance database: postgres
username: postgres
password: empty (no really, empty)