Canvas LMS/Installation/Ubuntu14 04

Canvas - Learning Management Solution. Used by universities and schools.

Ubuntu 14.04

Requirements

In the simplest configuration, everything will be running off a single server.

Recommended Hardware specifications

Dual Core+ 3.0ghz+ or Dual processors

4GB+ RAM

60GB HDD

64-bit capable system

Software Requirements

Minimum, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS+ server edition. Desktop will require more hardware than listed above.

Download Database software

Postgres (Database)

~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y autoremove
~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3 -y 

Configure Database

~$ sudo -u postgres createuser canvas -D -S -R -P
~$ sudo -u postgres createdb canvas_production --owner=canvas
~$ sudo -u postgres createdb canvas_queue_production --owner=canvas

Create superuser (this one is named helpdesk)

sudo -u postgres createuser helpdesk
~$ sudo -u postgres psql -c "alter user helpdesk with superuser" postgres

Download Git & Canvas

~$ sudo apt-get -y install git-core
~$ cd /var
~$ sudo git clone https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms.git canvas
~$ cd canvas
~/var/canvas$ sudo git branch --set-upstream-to origin/stable
~/var/canvas$ sudo chown -R helpdesk /var/canvas   --- helpdesk just happens to be the name of this user.  use your own 

Download Ruby 2.1.6

You're going to have to add a repository because the version available through Ubuntu's US or Main repos is not up to date (at the time of this writing.
~/var/canvas$ sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common ~/var/canvas$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng ~/var/canvas$ sudo apt-get update ~/var/canvas$ sudo apt-get -y install ruby2.1 ruby2.1-dev zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev postgresql libpq-dev libxmlsec1-dev curl make g++