chef-canvas

Chef-Solo scripts to deploy Instructure Canvas on a Ubuntu 12.04LTS 64bit Machine

Instructions

Make sure the data in node-canvas.json is good for your setup.

One thing you will likely wish to change is the FQDN parameter to tell apache where to host yourcanvas.yourdomain.com

1. Clone the repo to your local machine

   git clone https://github.com/neallawson/chef-canvas.git

2. Update your configs

   cd chef-canvas
   vim node-canvas.json

3. Run the install ( Be sure your running this from the directory you cloned this project into.... )

   sudo ./install-canvas.sh -i

4. Populate the Database

    sudo -u canvas /bin/bash -c "( cd /opt/canvas/lms && RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake db:initial_setup ) "

5. Restart Nginx & Canvas_init

   sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
   sudo /etc/init.d/canvas_init restart