Grace Ministries Web Server Setup

Prerequisites

• Some physical or virtual hardware, properly configured
• Ubuntu Server 16.04

Overview

1. Manual server setup
2. Automated tool configuration
3. Sites setup
4. Backup configuration
5. Monitoring (TODO)
6. Password changes (TODO)

Manual server setup

Look at the script under server-setup/01-first-steps.sh and either copy/paste or hand-key the steps to configure a user. You're basically bootstrapping your access so you can do the rest of the configuration over a remote terminal, as most KVM-style access doesn't offer good copy/paste features.

Automated tool configuration

Execute server-setup/02-apps.sh. This script does the following:

• Set the timezone
• Remove the password requirement from sudo
• Install and configure docker
• Install docker-compose
• Install and configure vim

Sites setup

Execute server-setup/03-sites.sh. This script does the following:

• Starts a Traefik instance
• Starts both the base site and the members site. You'll need to provide passwords for the database for both sites (and you should make them different)

Backup configuration

Execute server-setup/03-sites.sh. This script does the following:

• Create cron entries to backup key wordpress files
• Create cron entries to backup MariaDB data

Monitoring

TODO

Password changes

This isn't a step in the configuration. It is a note about where password reside so that in event that you need to change a password you know where to do it.

MariaDB passwords are stored in the following places:

• In the environment of both the Wordpress and MariaDB docker containers. Update an .env file and redeploy the entire compose stack with the updated password.
• In the /etc/cron.d/<site> file. These are used to create rotating backups.

Maximum upload size

Wordpress has a default maximum upload size of 2MB. That's quite low for most things. This has been increased, but if there is a need to increase it further that can be done by editing /sites/members/uploads.ini. Note that you need to update memory_limit, upload_max_filesize, and post_max_size.

Once you've updated the file, simply execute /update.sh on the server to refresh the site with the updated settings.