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Basic Instructions to deploy School-Manager

Digital Ocean Web Interface

Got to https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets and click on the Create Droplet icon

This is the password method.

Enter the desired hostname at the top of the page. For this example we will choose 'school1'
As of 5/2/2014, the standard configuration of 512MB / 1 CPU 20GB SSD DISK 1TB TRANSFER is suficient for a development machine
Select a region most appropriate to the applicaton.
For the Linux image, this project is being developed on an Ubuntu 14.04 x64 Linux Image

Thats it! Select create droplet and check your email for the password

Log in to the new droplet with SSH and the password provided by Digital Ocean in the email that confirms the creation of your new droplet

$SSH root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
password

Change the root password of your newly created droplet with

passwd

command, then create a new user with

adduser NewUser

Just set the password for the new user and press enter thru the next prompts

Edit sudo priveledges with shell command

visudo

Change the user privilege specification

root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
NewUser    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Save this file c-x and now disable root access

nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

you can change the Port and ability to login as root

Port ##
PermitRootLogin no
reload ssh

Close this session

ssh NewUser@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Now run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Now your droplet has been set up, it has been updated and you are ready to start installing the software required to run a django server with Apache

Install

sudo apt-get install apache2

Go to the droplet IP to see if Apache was installed correctly

Now install mod-wsgi

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi

Restart apache2

sudo service apache2 restart