The FormaVid Small Business Appliance has been updated for Debian 11 Bullseye: ------------------------------------------------------------------------

• Specifically designed to run on Google Compute Engine's Debian-11 image but will run on compatible distros with minor modifications.
• Deployable on local hardware, VMs, or to the cloud.
• Select any compatible base distro and let the scripts do the work.

The FormaVid Small Business Appliance integrates the following features:

Drupal - Content Management Framework

Drupal is an open source content management platform licensed under the GPL. Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal blogs, corporate brochures and large community-driven websites.

• Drupal configurations:

  • Installed from upstream source code to /var/www/drupal9.
  • Includes drush for command line administration and configuration.
  • Includes composer for base component and module administration.
  • Configured to use Gulp/Sass for improved design efficiency.
  • Default theme based upon Zen Grids for mobile first design.
  • Site stacks are created in /var/www/drupal9/prod.
  • Each site stack has its own corresponding apache.conf stack file.

• Additional Drupal modules:

  • Advanced help: Allows developers to store help outside the system.
  • Background Image: Allows utilizing background images.
  • Backup and migrate: Backup and restore your Drupal site on-demand or on a schedule.
  • CAPTCHA: A challenge-response test for forms.
  • Chaos tool suite: Set of APIs and tools for developers.
  • Component Libraries: Registers “component libraries” defined by your theme or module as Twig namespaces.
  • Devel: A suite of helper modules for Drupal module and theme developers.
  • Drush: a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal.
  • Features: Enables the capture and management of features.
  • Field Group: Enables grouping fields together.
  • FiveStar: Simple five-star voting widget for nodes.
  • Honeypot: Methods for deterring spam bots.
  • Image Style Quality: Allows you to specify a custom quality on individual image styles.
  • ImageMagick: Allows to use ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick as image toolkit for Image API. on the fly resizing.
  • Inline Entity Form: Provides a widget for inline management (creation, modification, removal) of referenced entities.
  • Module Filter: The ability to quickly find modules.
  • Panels: Drag and drop customized layouts for pages, nodes and blocks.
  • PathAuto: Auto-generate search engine friendly URLs (SEO).
  • Recaptcha: Thwart spammers by adding image or text based CAPTCHAs to your site.
  • RestUI: Provides a user interface to manage REST resources.
  • Rules: Allows site administrators to define conditionally executed actions based on occurring events.
  • Typed Data: Extends the core Typed Data API with new APIs and features.
  • Views Bulk Operations: augments Views by allowing bulk operations to be executed on the displayed rows.
  • Zen: a modern, powerful, HTML5 starting theme with component-based CSS and a responsive, mobile-first grid design.

Roundup - Issue Tracking System

Roundup is a simple-to-use and and powerful issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. Roundup is being used for bug tracking and TODO list management, issue management, customer help desk support, and sales lead tracking.

• Roundup configurations:

  • Installed via pip into user`s roundup home folder.
  • Uses Apache2 to serve roundup (instead of roundup-server).
  • Disabled registration confirmation via email (requires mail server).
  • Includes Xapian full text indexer (recommended for large issue DB).
  • Includes full timezone support and documentation.
  • Default view hides all issues until user login.

Initial tracker access: https://support.domain/support/

Initial configuration: /etc/roundup/support/tracker-config.ini

Required settings:

[tracker]
web = /                     (before)
web = https://support.domain/support/  (after)
# Note: If not set, links in emails will not include server address.

Recommended settings:

[main]
admin_email = admin
dispatcher_email = admin
[mail]
domain = example.com

Invoice Ninja - Invoicing system

Invoice Ninja is a web based invoicing system that is 100% open source, and supported by a growing community of developers around the world. A suite of features to invoice, track-time, and to get paid.

• Invoice Ninja configurations:

  • Installed from zip to /var/www/invoiceninja.
  • Setup page is Apache password protected using 'invoiceninja':invoiceninja_password.
  • Apache2 conf file symlinked from /etc/invoiceninja.

Additional Features

• SSL support out of the box.
• Adminer administration frontend for MariaDB (listening on port 12322 - uses SSL).
• BorgBackup deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption.
• Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server (listening on ports 993/143).
• Fail2ban bans IPs that show malicious signs.
• OpenSSH SSH server (listening on port 22).
• Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery).
• ProFTPD ftp server (listening on port 21).
• Webmin (listening on port 12321) with modules for configuring Apache2, Dovecot, Fail2ban, PHP, ProFTPD, MariaDB and Postfix.
• Webshell (listening on port 12320).

Credentials (passwords required for initialization) -------------------------------------------

• Webmin, Webshell, SSH, MariaDB, Adminer: username root
• Drupal, Roundup: username admin
• Invoice Ninja setup: username invoiceninja
• ProFTPD: username cssadmin
• BorgBackup: repository passphrase