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problem with svn+ssh authentication when excute deploy rails project on EC2 amazon server

Asked by: expertmemeber1

i am trying to deploy my app rails hello_world from my svn to ec2 amazon server. i got trouble when excute deploy command:


- 1: i am using ec2 amazon for hosting and server like: ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com

- 2: i have 1 other server installed subversion (SVN) which store rails app (hello world) use for deploy to ec2 server (svn+ssh://root@yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy/svn/hello_world)

- 3: first.. on my depvelopment computer, i will excute command :"cap deploy:setup" and it will setup core for app hello_world on ec2 server.

       second: i will excute command "cap deploy" to deploy app hello_world from svn server to ec2 server
       problem occur here:
-----------------------------------------------------------
  * executing `deploy'
  * executing `deploy:update'
 ** transaction: start
  * executing `deploy:update_code'
    updating the cached checkout on all servers
root@yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy's password:
  * executing "if [ -d /usr/hello/shared/cached-copy ]; then svn update -q  -r398 /usr/hello/shared/cached-copy; else svn checkout -q  -r398 svn+ssh://root@yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy/svn/hello_world /usr/hello/shared/cached-copy; fi"
    servers: ["ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com"]
    [ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com] executing command
 ** [err] reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy.com [yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
 ** [err] Permission denied, please try again.
 ** [err] Permission denied, please try again.
 ** [err] Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password).
 ** [err] svn: Connection closed unexpectedly
    command finished
*** [deploy:update_code] rolling back
  * executing "rm -rf /usr/hello/releases/20090223091608; true"
    servers: ["ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com"]
    [ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com] executing command
    command finished
command "if [ -d /usr/hello/shared/cached-copy ]; then svn update -q  -r398 /usr/hello/shared/cached-copy; else svn checkout -q  -r398 svn+ssh://root@yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy/svn/hello_world /usr/hello/shared/cached-copy; fi" failed on ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com


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i tried to ssh to ec2 server and do command "svn co svn+ssh://root@yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy/svn/hello_world"
and it asking for enter password twice times. after that, it 's ok, i think problem in here

addition infor, i can stand on ec2 server to ssh to my svn server contains  rails app

and below is deploy.rb file use for deploy.

set :application, "hello"
set :svn_repository_home, "hello_world"
 
## Servers 
 
set :use_sudo, false  
ssh_options[:keys] = ["~/.ssh/id_rsa-gsp-keypair"]
set :domain, "ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com"
set :rails_env, "production"
set :group_writable, false
 
role :web,      "ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com"
role :app,      "ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com"
role :memcache, "ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com"
role :db,       "ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com", :primary => true
 
## Subversion
 
set :scm, :subversion
set :scm_user, "root"   # Sets 'my_svn_user' instead, if you are using different name than your app.
set :scm_password, Proc.new { Capistrano::CLI.password_prompt("SCM password for #{scm_user}:") }
set :repository,  "svn+ssh://root@yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy/svn/hello_world"
set :scm_auth_cache, true  # Prompts for password once
set :deploy_to, "/var/www/apps/"
# keeps a local checkout of the repository on the server to get faster deployments
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
 
## Tasks
 
namespace :deploy do
  desc "Restart Application (using tmp/restart.txt)"
  task :restart_passenger do
    run "touch #{current_path}/tmp/restart.txt"
  end
 
  desc "Restarts your application."
  task :restart do
    restart_passenger
  end
 
  desc "Link shared files"
  #task :before_symlink do
  before :symlink do
    run "rm -drf #{release_path}/public/uploads"
    run "ln -s #{shared_path}/uploads #{release_path}/public/uploads"
    run "rm -f #{release_path}/config/database.yml"
    run "ln -s #{shared_path}/database.yml #{release_path}/config/database.yml"
  end
end
                                  
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by: expertmemeber1Posted on 2009-02-23 at 02:16:58ID: 23709653

ah my ec2 server using fedora core 8, and my svn server using Cent Os... plz help me to figure out how to deploy to ec2 server by getting source app from svn server. thanks

 

by: nognewPosted on 2009-02-23 at 02:30:18ID: 23709729

Hello!
 have you checked if you can login remotely  to your server via ssh using root account?
By default login as root from remote host via ssh is prohibited.
Kind regards,
t.

 

by: expertmemeber1Posted on 2009-02-23 at 02:32:15ID: 23709739

yes, i checked , i ssh to ec2 server , then from ec2 server, i ssh to my svn server , it ok, however it only asking for password twice when i do "svn co" command

 

by: nognewPosted on 2009-02-23 at 04:10:16ID: 23710257

If I got you correect, you can do svn+ssh manually when you login to a host, but when you try to do it via a script it fails?

 

by: expertmemeber1Posted on 2009-02-23 at 17:25:23ID: 23717478

oh sorr, i use capistrano to deploy rails app to ec2 server, that why i need figure out it

 

by: expertmemeber1Posted on 2009-02-24 at 00:11:14ID: 23719277

any ideas???

 

by: nognewPosted on 2009-02-24 at 01:38:55ID: 23719679

Are you using the same user when you login to a host and when you run capistrano ?

 

by: expertmemeber1Posted on 2009-02-24 at 02:04:01ID: 23719815

yes, i use root for all

 

by: nognewPosted on 2009-02-24 at 08:24:11ID: 23723112

Is it possible that capistrano  run under another user? Like daemon?

 

by: expertmemeber1Posted on 2009-02-24 at 08:56:18ID: 23723518

u mean i will create another user for subversion??? anyway, thanks for ur help, or if u or anybody know how to deploy rails app to ec2 server with capistrano and svn+ssh, plz give ur hand, ^^

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