sdfb | crowdsourcing website reassembling the social network | Social Channel Utils library

All of these instructions assume a basic Linux (Ubuntu) server with Postgres, Ruby, Rails, and Node already installed.
Set a new password for the postgres user with sudo passwd postgres
Make sure this password matches the password in database.yml
Access machine as user postgres with su - postgres
Get plaintext backup file from existing database. On whatever other server or machine your database lives on, this often looks like: psql mydatabase > mybackup.dump
Create a new database on the server with createdb sixdfbor_sdfb
Populate that database with your backup file: psql sixdfbor_sdfb < somefile.dump
Make sure you can log in to the database from the rails app. You'll want to edit a config file by typing sudo vim /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_hba.conf. Then change peer on the first line to md5.
Restart postgres with sudo service postgresql restart to implement these changes.
Before you do anything else, clone this Github repo into /var/www. Just navigate to that directory and type git clone https://github.com/sdfb/sdfb.git.
That's it! The Angular app and Rails API should both be live on the server. If your API/frontend hookup isn't working, make sure the apiUrl is correct in angular/app/scripts/services/apiservice.js.
Update /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default to match the one here.
Restart Nginx: sudo service nginx restart