<p> I've been using capistrano for Rails and really impressed by how easy it makes deployment and rolllback. Sometimes though I need this type of automation on non-rails work. This type of automation can include setting up a vhost in Apache as well as Travis CI work. I know Chef-solo might be best for this but since I am already in Capistrano I might as well push it a little more. </p> <p> To use this on a static page I am building all I had to do, after making sure Ruby was installed of course was install the gem <a herf=https://github.com/leehambley/railsless-deploy/>railsless-deploy</a>. </p> <p> After I did that install I ran "capify ." in the folder I was working on. </p> <p> From there I edited the file Capify in the root of the folder so, as noted on the page above, it required this gem. </p> <p> In my case all I needed was a simple apache_vhost recipe and template to store the configurations using dynamic variables so I can use this on other sites quite easily. As well as updating the deploy.rb. You can see those in a github gist <a href="#">here</a> and below. <br> Also your folder layout will look like this <br> /<br> /Capfile<br> /config<br> /config/deploy.rb<br> /config/recipes/base.rb<br> /config/recipes/apachevhost.rb<br> /config/recipes/templates/apache_vhost.erb<br> </br> <script src="https://gist.github.com/alnutile/5947574.js"></script> </p> <p> Thanks to the RailsCast episode <a href=http://railscasts.com/episodes/337-capistrano-recipes>#337</a> I shown also the trick to setup a base config file to add some shared methods. </p> <p> One odd error before I could get this to work was to make an empty Gemfile in the root of the folder and run <br> bundle install </br> Even though I assumed the railsless gem would do that. But I posted this question on their github page and will see what I was missing. <br> Finally I ran <br> </br> cap deploy:install<br> cap deploy:setup<br> cap deploy:cold </p> <p> At this point Apache is set, the folders are set and the site can be accessed. And with all new pushes I just run cap deploy to update the server with the latest work from github "master" </p> <p> The next steps will be to integrate this into Travis CI to test and deploy via the github/git webhook feature. </p>