udacity_server

IP Address and SSH Port

Public IP: 18.216.120.52 SSH Port: 2200

URL to hosted web app

This is incomplete. I thought it would show up here: http://18.216.120.52/, but I keep getting an error. I've worked on this for some time and am hoping you might be able to help me a little bit with it.

Summary of software installed and configured changes made

1. Used Amazon Lightsail to get a server going.
2. SSH'd into the server on my local machine.
3. Created a new user 'ryan', and another user 'grader'.
4. Used local ssh-keygen to create keys for both accounts. Added them to their own .ssh folders. Basically, I followed the steps 1-6 from here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-16-04.
5. Updated packages using sudo apt-get update followed by sudo apt-get upgrade.
6. Set up firewall using the following commands: sudo ufw default deny incoming sudo ufw default allow outgoing sudo ufw allow ssh sudo ufw allow 2200/tcp (Note: Changed SSH above to port 2200) sudo ufw allow www sudo ufw allow 123/udp sudo ufw enable
7. Configured timezone using: dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
8. Installed Apache2: sudo apt-get install apache2
9. Installed Python mod_wsgi: sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
10. Here, I created an example wsgi file and ran a simple "Hello World" app to confirm that Apache2 and wsgi were working properly. This worked, they were working.
11. Installed Postgres and created a new DB.
12. The user is "postgres". Password in my notes to you.
13. Installed Git and copied over my backend-final (catalog) project.
14. Added .htaccess file at root of project directory with RedirectMatch 404 /\.git
15. Installed Pip and Virtual Environment: sudo apt-get install python-pip sudo pip install virtualenv
16. Installed all requirements using: pip install -r requirements.txt
17. Tested that the app was running by going to directory for catalog and running python __init__.py - running properly.
18. Configured virtual host in Apache2: sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/catalog.conf
19. Enabled virtual host: sudo a2ensite catalog
20. Created and configured the WSGI file in the top of the catalog directory: catalog.wsgi
21. Replaced sqlite references with postgresql: engine = create_engine('postgresql://catalog:catalog@localhost/catalog')
22. Added Lightsail server IP to hosts file: sudo nano /etc/hosts
23. Removed 000-default.conf file from Apache2
24. Restarted Apache: sudo service apache2 restart
25. Restarted Python app: sudo python __init__.py

List of third-party resources

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-flask-application-on-an-ubuntu-vps https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6142437/make-git-directory-web-inaccessible https://www.knownhost.com/wiki/security/misc/how-can-i-change-my-ssh-port https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-16-04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-and-delete-users-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-vps https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/firewall.html

Author

Ryan Meyers