In order to be able to force the http to https redirection when using wordpress in dreamhost use the following (taken from https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215747758-Force-your-site-to-load-securely-with-an-htaccess-file) :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NE]
Header always set Content-Security-Policy "upgrade-insecure-requests;"
# BEGIN WordPress
.....
# END WordPressProblem
You would like to change the options in your application’s php.ini file (ie maximum upload file size), which is hosted in dreamhost.
Solution
Dreamhost is using a file called phprc which is installed in your home directory (~/phprc).
More information here
Edit this file and change the setting you would like.
Trying to deploy a rails application in a cloud provider ie dreamhost, that uses OpenStack these are the steps needed:
sudo docker pull rails:latest
rails new docker_test
FROM rails:onbuild
sudo docker build -t rails_docker_test .
sudo docker images
sudo docker run --name rails_test -p 0.0.0.0:3000:3000 -d rails_docker_test
sudo docker login --username=yourhubusername --email=youremail@company.com
, and then when you get ‘Login Succeeded’, push your image to your account:
sudo docker push yourhubusername/rails_docker_test
Problem
You have just created your first instance in Dreamhost’s new service DreamCompute using OpenStack and you would like to login with ssh, but you get ‘Permission Denied’.
Solution
The solution is described here, and it’s the fact that the user name that you need to use is not your Dreamhost account name, or the DreamCompute dashboard user anme but the the username called:
dhc-user
NOTE: It seems that is also described here, at the bottom.
Problem
After installing rvm on dreamhost, when trying to install any ruby version afterwards, there is a prompt for password, and when entering the user’s password there is the message that the user is not in the sudoers list.
Solution
To be able to install the rvm ruby version you would like you should be installing them by using the following which is based on the answer here :
rvm list remote ruby-1.9.3-p194 ruby-1.9.3-p286 ruby-1.9.3-p327 ruby-1.9.3-p362 ruby-1.9.3-p374 ruby-1.9.3-p392 ruby-1.9.3-p429 ruby-1.9.3-p448 ruby-2.0.0-p0 ruby-2.0.0-p195 ruby-2.0.0-p247
and then:
rvm mount -r https://rvm.io/binaries/debian/6/x86_64/ruby-2.0.0-p247.tar.bz2 --verify-downloads 1
Problem
When trying to use the new Capistrano 3.x to set up your rails project in a dreamhost account, you get the following error complaining that the git-ssh.sh script copied to your account by capistrano cannot be executed as the permission is denied:
fatal: cannot exec '/tmp/example.com/git-ssh.sh': Permission denied
Solution
It seems that Dreamhost, and quite possibly other hosting providers are not allowing executables from the /tmp directory, which is where Capistrano places the git-ssh.sh script. So in order to be able to execute the script you can change the directory where the script is copied in the first place and put it in your home directory. You can do that by adding the following to the config/deploy.rb file:
set :tmp_dir, "/home/dh_user_name/tmp"
Problem
After the announcements in the previous posts about the security vulnerabilities in Rails 3.0.3, you would like to update your application and deploy with the latest 3.0.4 version.
Solution
gem 'rails', '3.0.3'gem 'rails', '3.0.4'bundle update railsgit statusgit rm name_of_3.0.3_gemgit add vendor/cachegit commit vendor/cache -m 'upgrade to rails 3.0.4'git commit Gemfile Gemfile.lock -m 'update Gemfiles to use 3.0.4'You have modified your Gemfile in development but did not check the resulting snapshot (Gemfile.lock) into version controlgit pushcap deployProblem
You want to deploy your Rails 3.0.3 in Dreamhost with capistrano, but even though you follow the steps from a previous post here, when you go to the application’s main page you still get an error:
500 Internal Server Error
Solution
Thanks to a blog post from Brendon Wilson here, the last missing piece from the puzzle in order to have your application running is to add the following line to the top of your deploy.rb file:
require 'bundler/capistrano'
and redo your cap deploy.
Thanks Brendon.
Problem
You want to deploy your Rails (3.0.3) application to Dreamhost using Capistrano, but you get errors like:
bundle command not found
or
Enter your password to install the bundled RubyGems to your system:
Solution
You may be able to see in your deploy.rb file a commented section that says the following:
As Capistrano executes in a non-interactive mode and therefore doesn’t cause
any of your shell profile scripts to be run ….
So in order for capistrano to be able to find your bundle command you should add in your deploy.rb file a line with your paths (ie):
default_environment['PATH']='/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/bin:/home/your_name/.gems/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin'
If you have the previous line your bundle command can run, but if you try to do cap:deploy your bundler will probably give you an error as it would ask for your sudo password. In order to avoid this error and to make it work you have to add another line with your gem path (ie):
default_environment['GEM_PATH']='/home/your_name/.gems:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8'
making sure that your home directory path for your gems is first in the list.
Security Upgrade
According to a dreamhost post here, you should be upgrading your WordPress installation as soon as possible.