Installing CartoDB for CEDEUS

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Setup of CartoDB VM

Setup of VM based on Basic Ubuntu1404 VM

  1. copying basicubunutu1404.vdi file and renaming to cartodb.vdi
  2. creating the cartodb VM on CedeusDB (ip.18):
    • VBoxManage createvm --name cartodb --ostype Ubuntu_64 --register
    • VBoxManage modifyvm cartodb --memory 8096
    • VBoxManage modifyvm cartodb --cpus 6
    • VBoxManage modifyvm cartodb --nic1 nat
    • VBoxManage storagectl cartodb --name "SATA Controller" --add sata --controller IntelAhci
    • assign the (old) disk image a new uuid
      VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid cartodb.vdi
    • attach the (old) disk image:
      VBoxManage storageattach "cartodb" --storagectl "SATA Controller" --port 0 --device 0 --type hdd --medium cartodb.vdi
    • VBoxManage storagectl cartodb --name "IDE Controller" --add ide --controller PIIX4
    • set the nat rules (ports):
      VBoxManage modifyvm cartodb --natpf1 "ssh,tcp,,19022,,22"
      VBoxManage modifyvm cartodb --natpf1 "apache,tcp,,19080,,80"
      VBoxManage modifyvm cartodb --natpf1 "pgsql,tcp,,19432,,5432"
  3. optional - set VRDE port:
    • VBoxManage modifyvm cartodb --vrdeport 7763 (Note: 3389 is the default port anyway)
  4. check all settings with VBoxManage showvminfo cartodb
  5. start the VM
    • VBoxHeadless -s cartodb --vrde on &
    the VM will listen on port 7763 - connect with GTKvncViewer to check
    • check if ssh connection works
  6. change the computers name in /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname
  7. restarting Apache gives the error message: "apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 ..."
    => solve this by adding ServerName cartodb as the last line in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file

Resize the CartoDB VM

  • shut the VM down to resize the HDD if necessary
  • check the HDD size: VBoxManage showhdinfo cartodb.vdi returns:
UUID:           e148d758-00ac-4b60-a067-d5c97316069d
Parent UUID:    base</br>
State:          created
Type:           normal (base)
Location:       /home/ssteinig/cartodb.vdi
Storage format: VDI
Format variant: dynamic default
Capacity:       100000 MBytes
Size on disk:   6224 MBytes
In use by VMs:  nominatim (UUID: be795392-3786-4f3b-9714-a9445f91855d)
  • so I resized the disk to 200GB as, according to Nominatim infos the disk size for a full planet is 700GB
    VBoxManage modifyhd cartodb.vdi --resize 200000
  • to make this resizing effective I actually have to change the partitions: