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Installing redmine 2.0.1 in Ubuntu from git repo

Redmine is a project management web application, developed in Rails. In my opinion is the best free tool of this nature. That’s the reason why I wanted to install it on my server, to manage better my future projects, and of course installing the last version. In this article I will ilustrate the dificulties which I found during the installation, mainly the first installation of ruby, rails, bundler, mysql compatibility … Continue reading Installing redmine 2.0.1 in Ubuntu from git repo

Setting up a Tomcat in your AMI

I love Java and Object Oriented Paradigm, and I was looking for an option to develop Java apps in the cloud in a cheap way. The cheaper, light and non-restrictive way to do this is installing Tomcat in an AmazonWS Linux-AMI. You can do great applications in Tomcat with Spring/JPA/JSF2, but this architecture deserves another post.

Well, I want to show you how to configure Tomcat to deploy web applications in a basic-AMI (It’s free the first year):

  • Configuring memory heap
  • Provide gzip compression for the web contents
  • Two ways to redirect to port 80
  • And, if you use maven, deploying remotely with cargo

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