Invoise

Invoice generator hobby project.

#Production Machine

Connect: ssh ubuntu@invoise.com

#Domain Name

Server

invoise.com registered on namecheap.com

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS seems to be a good choice.

Deploy

The project lies in ~/projects/invoise-web. The latest version can be fetched from GitHub with git pull

Nohup is used to run it.

If you have another version running, you must start by killing it.

To kill it: ps aux, find nohup/node process id and kill <id>.

On a development machine, just type:

node app.js

On a production machine port 80 needs to be specified and sudo may be required to bind to this port.

sudo PORT=80 node app.js

Nohup is used to get it running after logging out from shell.

sudo PORT=80 nohup node app.js &

Dependencies

wkhtmltopdf

Uses x system and handles fonts better then phantom.

phantomjs-node (deprecated)

https://github.com/sgentle/phantomjs-node

Phantom needs to be installed on machine sudo apt-get install phantomjs

You may get errors though, like "cannot connect to X server" https://github.com/yeoman/yeoman/issues/446

Solution: Download the latest binary from here: http://phantomjs.org/download.html And replacing: /usr/bin/phantomjs

To get where it's installed, you can have look at: dpkg -L phantomjs

Fonts on Ubuntu

Ubuntu doesn't come with many fonts, have a look with `fc -list?

To install basic fonts there is a Microsoft font package.

To install:

first you need to enable multiverse repo in Ubuntu. sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Liberation Sans is pretty good option and renders decently on Linux. http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/8827/helvetica-neue-equivalent-on-google-web-fonts

Raw install log

Amazon EC2
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit


sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install phantomjs (needed?)
sudo apt-get install git

Install node (requires extra repo to be added)
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager#ubuntu-mint

Copy GitHub keys from local:
scp ~/.ssh/amazon ubuntu@ec2-54-229-57-147.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:~/.ssh/id_rsa
scp ~/.ssh/amazon.pub ubuntu@ec2-54-229-57-147.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

mkdir projects
cd projects
git clone git@github.com:antonholmquist/invoise-web
cd invoise-web/

npm install
// On dependency error, remove the node modules directory and try again

// Install x server 
sudo apt-get install xvfb
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf

// Use latest phantomjs
scp /Users/antonholmquist/Downloads/phantomjs-1.9.1-linux-x86_64\ 2/bin/phantomjs ubuntu@ec2-54-229-57-147.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:~/

sudo mv ~/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs

// Microsoft core fonts
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer