Hosting my own Cloud IDE like cloud9
I recommend Codiad - dark theme, git, terminal, easy setup without big dependencies.
For the benefit of others stumbling onto this question and the answers, this is a fast moving target, because development in all dependent technologies is rapidly changing.
I don't think there is any need to go through the manual process of building rvm/npm anymore. Most distros now ship with decent versions of those tools and even nodejs itself.
So, best to do a quick review of the requirements at their github site .. and follow their lead in deploying cloud9.
For me, the steps that have worked (ubuntu 12.04, xfce) are as follows:
- I already had nodejs (0.10.26) and npm (1.4.3) installed
- so,
npm install -g sm
.. - then
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
.. useradd -m cloud9
su - cloud9
git clone git://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9.git
cd cloud9
npm install
All the above completed successfully without errors. The npm install does take a while because it builds all required dependencies.
The following is taken verbatim from the cloud9 website, and it works as stated:
Running
bin/cloud9.sh
.. runs on default tcp 3131, accessible fromhttp://localhost:3131
bin/cloud9.sh -w ~/myproject
.. runs with a specified projectbin/cloud9.sh -l 0.0.0.0
.. listen on all interfacesbin/cloud9.sh --username user --password somepassword
.. run with basic auth, requiring the username/password to access it
I just installed cloud9 IDE yesterday (and tried the whole last week) on ubuntu server 12.04, it's kind of tricky, but I figured out how to do it (with the help of http://www.samclarke.com/2012/07/how-to-install-cloud-9-ide-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts-precise-pangolin/).
If you have nodejs installed, you first have to uninstall it and you need to install some extra packages:
sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ curl libssl-dev apache2-utils git libxml2-dev
You should create a new user called "cloud9" for example sudo adduser cloud9
. Everything that follows has to be done as the new user!
Install the node version manager (nvm) in the home directory of cloud9 by using:
git clone git://github.com/creationix/nvm.git ~/nvm
echo '. ~/nvm/nvm.sh' >> ~/.bashrc && . ~/.bashrc
Now install nodejs 0.8.23 using nvm:
nvm install v0.8.23
nvm use v0.8.23
Install sourcemint via npm:
npm install sm
Clone the cloud9 git repository into the home directory of cloud9:
git clone git://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9.git
Change into the directory "cloud9" and run sourcemint:
../node_modules/sm/bin/sm install
Now you can start cloud9 with ~/cloud9/bin/cloud9.sh.
To automatically start cloud9 you need a script:
#!/bin/bash
# It is important to use bash here and not sh!
. ~/nvm/nvm.sh
nvm use v0.8.23
~/cloud9/bin/cloud9.sh
The script has to have executable permissions!
You can start the server at startup by adding the following line to /etc/rc.local:
su cloud9 -c /home/cloud9/scriptname.sh &
If you want cloud9 to be accessible on port 80 add the following to your virtualhost entry in apache2:
ProxyPass / http://localhost:3131
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3131
(maybe / and http://... need to be the other way round, I'm not sure)
Then enable the mod_proxy module of apache2: sudo a2enmod mod_proxy
And restart apache2: sudo service apache2 restart
That's it, now you have a working installation of cloud9 on ubuntu server!