[Tfug] debian and nginx and rails

[christopher floess]

> Sounds like a pretty clean solution, although the /opt install really
> isn't bad either.
>
> One thing I highly recommend that I have started doing with our
> servers (especially since I KNOW I will only be in my position for a
> few years) is to keep a running googledoc or something of all the
> non-standard tweaks on each system. Basically any configuration or
> installation that deviates from a vanilla install is listed. I don't
> list every package I install, because that should be easy enough to
> maintain, but anything else gets a note (custom CUPS conf, anything
> installed from source, etc). This makes for a surprisingly short list,
> and makes it pretty easy to recreate the setup for the next gen admin.
> Glancing at the list for all of 30 seconds should avoid any long days
> of trouble shooting / cursing the previous admin.
>   
Thanks for the reply JD. We are documenting all of this. Our plan is to 
make scripts to automate more of these things as well.

-- chris