Udacity - Linux Server Configuration

This project is for Udacity Full-Stack Developer course, the last project, and it has information to Udacity reviewer about an ubuntu instance in the Amazon Lightsail providing a basic Python application deployed over Linux, Apache, and PostgreSQL.

How to login

Install the private key and run this:

ssh -p 2200 grader@klassmann.link -i ~/.ssh/id_private_key

Configuration Check-list

• Add the grader user in the system
• grader user has sudo permission
• grader user uses SSH key pairs for login
• Disabling SSH login with root user
• SSH has a non-standard port number

    Change this option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
    Port 2200

• Only SSH, HTTP and NTP ports are configured in the firewall

    Use ufw with these options:

    $ sudo ufw default deny incoming
    $ sudo ufw default allow outgoing
    $ sudo ufw allow 2200/tcp
    $ sudo ufw allow www
    $ sudo ufw allow ntp
    $ sudo ufw enable
    

• It is allowed SSH login only with RSA key authentication
• All packages are updated in the operating system

    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get upgrade

• There is a web server running in the 80 port

    $ sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3

• There is a database configured and running

    $ sudo apt-get install postgresql

• The project catalog is running in the web server

Access information

In the browser use the address http://klassmann.link because the catalog app is configured with this domain in the Google OAuth.

• IP: 18.188.174.98
• URL: http://klassmann.link (unavailable)
• User name: grader
• Password: (It was sent directly to Udacity reviewer)
• Private Key: (It was sent directly to Udacity reviewer)

Software list on the system

• finger
• Python 3.5
• pip3
• virtualenv
• Apache2
• mod_wsgi-py3
• git
• PostgreSQL 10

Applications running

• Catalog

Requirements:

    Flask==0.12.2
    SQLAlchemy==1.2.5
    google-api-python-client==1.6.6
    google-auth==1.4.1
    google-auth-httplib2==0.0.3
    google-auth-oauthlib==0.2.0
    oauth2client==4.1.2
    oauthlib==2.0.7

Third-Party Services

• Amazon Lightsail
• Amazon Route53

License

You can't use this project as your project for Udacity, but you can use for study purposes if you want.