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+Installing Tracks on a clean server (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) running on Amazon Web Services with a self-signed SSL certificate for a secure HTTPS access.
+
+## Install all required dependencies
+
+```
+$ sudo apt-get install thin unzip bundler libsqlite3-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev
+```
+
+## Rebuild eventmachine with SSL support
+
+```
+$ sudo gem uninstall eventmachine
+$ sudo gem install eventmachine
+```
+
+## Download tracks (2.3.0)
+
+```
+$ mkdir tracks
+$ cd tracks
+$ wget https://github.com/TracksApp/tracks/archive/v2.3.0.zip
+$ unzip v2.3.0.zip
+$ cd tracks-2.3.0/
+```
+
+## Configuration
+
+### Disable mysql backend
+
+* edit Gemfile, comment line:
+```
+#gem "mysql2", "~> 0.3.16"
+```
+
+### Update configuration file
+```
+$ cp config/database.yml.tmpl config/database.yml
+$ nano config/database.yml
+```
+Uncomment the section for sqlite production, delete the other configuraion for production; don't delete the rest
+
+### Update site file
+```
+$ cp config/site.yml.tmpl config/site.yml
+$ nano config/site.yml
+```
+* change "change-me" in salt and "secret_token" to some random value
+
+* change config.serve_static_assets to true in config/environments/production.rb in order for the images, stylesheets, and javascript files to be served correctly.
+$ nano config/environments/production.rb
+
+## Bundle install (in tracks-2.3.0 folder)
+
+```
+$ bundle install
+```
+
+## Precompile assets
+
+```
+$ bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production
+```
+
+## [Optional; if you don't have SSL certificate]
+
+* generate certificates, e.g. in /home/ubuntu/certificates
+
+```
+$ openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout key.pem -out req.pem
+$ openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in req.pem -signkey key.pem -out cert.pem
+```
+
+## Run tracks with thin + ssl (in tracks-2.3.0 folder)
+
+```
+$ bundle exec thin start -e production --ssl --ssl-verify --ssl-key-file /home/ubuntu/certificates/key.pem --ssl-cert-file /home/ubuntu/certificates/cert.pem
+```