Milestone 0: Install FreedomBox as a $5 mo Digital Ocean droplet

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Adrian Gropper edited this page Jan 3, 2016 · 3 revisions

DO does not do debian unstable. Need to upgrade from 8.2 via https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

Digital Ocean MyAS 512 MB Memory / 20 GB Disk / NYC2 162.243.48.241 root password:
adduser fbx / Password:
ssh fbx@162.243.48.241 works but won’t sudo
Do: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/18063/debian-8-1-0-jessie-sudo-fix-not-installed-by-default
ssh fbx@162.243.48.241 works

Changing to Debian unstable to prepare for FreedomBox

via Duncan: You can upgrade using instructions from https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting
in /etc/apt/ sudo nano sources.list and replace all jessie with testing
run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade ; accept issue N default and config Keep default
Reboot then check with cat /etc/debian_version - reports stretch/sid
Make a Digital Ocean Snapshot
- sudo shutdown now
- Use the DO Control Panel to create a Snapshot

Install FreedomBox per https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Hardware/Debian

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install freedombox-setup accept default to ask on restart
sudo /usr/lib/freedombox/setup | tee freedombox-setup.log
Needed to delete the public key in /Users/adrian/.ssh/known_hosts
ssh as fbx - reboot

http://162.243.48.241 redirects to http://162.243.48.241/plinth but reports Forbidden

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_authz_host.html
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/plinth.conf added Require ip 146.115.179.89 and reboot
https://162.243.48.241/plinth works! with self-signed cert issued to the Droplet name (MyAS)

Plinth Setup

added user adrian pw:

Check versions:

python3 -V shows Python 3.4.4
python3 -c "import django; print(django.get_version())" shows 1.9

Make a Digital Ocean Snapshot

sudo shutdown now
Use the DO Control Panel to create a Snapshot

Get a Personal Domain

Get a domain: https://ap.www.namecheap.com/ myas.xyz cost $1.18
Make an A-Record to 162.243.179.89 and a CNAME for host www to myas.xyz

Install Let’s Encrypt

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install letsencrypt python-letsencrypt-apache
Login as root from the Digital Ocean console
Stop apache2: sudo service apache2 stop
/etc/letsencrypt$ ls now shows: accounts csr keys renewal
letsencrypt --apache
“No host names found…” Accept default
myas.xyz, www.myas.xyz
Accept Easy
Test with: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=myas.xyz

Make a Digital Ocean Snapshot

Tools

HIE of One - FreedomBox - HEART Workgroup - UMA Workgroup - The hi:project - PPR - NOSH