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+Installing Tracks 2.5.1 on a clean server (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS) running on Amazon Web Services with a Let's encrypt SSL certificate for a secure HTTPS access.
+
+## Install all required dependencies
+
+```bash
+$ sudo apt-get install git nano wget ruby ruby-dev build-essential libsqlite3-dev shared-mime-info -y
+```
+
+This command has also installed a default `bundler` but we have to replace it with a newer version due to a [bug in the package served with Ubuntu](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby-thor/+bug/1885424).
+
+```bash
+$ bundler2.7 --version
+Bundler version 2.1.2
+```
+
+Install a newer version
+
+```bash
+$ sudo gem install bundler
+Fetching bundler-2.2.25.gem
+```
+
+So now we have a newer version installed
+
+```bash
+$ bundle --version
+Bundler version 2.2.25
+```
+
+## Download tracks
+
+```bash
+$ wget https://github.com/TracksApp/tracks/archive/v2.5.1.zip
+$ unzip v2.5.1.zip
+$ cd tracks-2.5.1/
+$ rm Gemfile.lock
+```
+
+Edit `Gemfile`, I'm using `nano`
+
+```bash
+$ nano Gemfile
+```
+
+Comment out unused backends
+
+```
+# gem "mysql2", "~> 0.5.3", group: :mysql
+# gem "pg", "~> 1.2.3", group: :postgresql
+```
+
+```bash
+$ cp config/database.yml.tmpl config/database.yml
+$ nano config/database.yml
+```
+
+Change to use `sqlite` backend
+
+```
+production:
+#  adapter: mysql2
+# database: tracks
+  # set this if you are storing utf8 in your mysql database to handle strings
+  # like "Réné".Not needed for sqlite. For PostgreSQL use encoding: unicode
+  # encoding: utf8
+#  host: localhost
+#  username: root
+#  password:
+
+# The following is an example to configure Tracks to use sqlite
+
+#production:
+  adapter: sqlite3
+  database: db/tracks-20-blank.sqlite3.db
+  pool: 5
+  timeout: 5000
+```
+
+```bash
+$ cp config/site.yml.tmpl config/site.yml
+$ nano config/site.yml
+```
+
+Change `change-me` in `secret_token` to some random value. Then compile packages (takes some time).
+
+## Install using bundler
+
+We will be installing all Ruby packages into this local folder for not messing up with other possible system-wider libraries
+
+```bash
+$ bundle config set --local path 'vendor/bundle'
+$ export RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES=true
+$ bundle install
+```
+
+Compile static assets
+
+```bash
+$ bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production
+```
+
+I have the following script for launching Tracks properly with SSL:
+
+```
+#!/bin/sh
+export RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES=true
+bundle exec puma -e production -b 'ssl://0.0.0.0:3000?key=/etc/letsencrypt/live/myserver.com/privkey.pem&cert=/etc/letsencrypt/live/myserver.com/cert.pem'
+```