Server setup template

Hello and welcome to this repository for default setup configurations for deploying WSGI applications to a server with apache. In here there are some scripts for configuration management to get a server up and running quickly. There are also configurationfiles for apache and wsgi.

Getting started

Instructions on how to get stuff up and running

Prereq

• Ansible
• A WSGI application
• A Ubuntu VPS (tested and working with Ubuntu EC2)

Instructions

1. Clone this repository
2. Run the ansible script to do the initial serverconfigurations $ ./ansible/run.sh initconfig or config, if this is the first time you run the config
3. Clone the desired WSGI application (flask/django/etc) next to this repository
4. Run the ansible deployment script - $ ./ansible/run.sh deploy

Summary of configurations

Harden server:

• Create a new user with sudo access
• Copy over SSH public keys from machine and keys folder
• Disable root login
• Change ssh port to port specified in vars
• Enable the firewall to close off all ports except port 80 for http, port 123 for ntp and ssh port found in group vars, which in our case is port 2200
• Update all applications
• Creates database user catalog with limited permissions
• Makes .git folder unavailable through the browser

Other config:

• Configures NTP server

Deploy WSGI application:

• Install apache with apache wsgi libs
• Installs and initiates PostgreSQL
• Copy over application in neighbor repository. Foldername specified in vars
• Copy over configurations for apache, runs wsgi specified in the webapps repo (*.wsgi file)
• Starts serving the webapp

Resources

• Ansible playbooks
• Ansible playbooks examples
• WSGI config
• Passwordless sudo

Running demo

You can find a running demo of the configuratons serving one of my webapps on:

http://restaurants.peakbreaker.com

The server running the webapp has the ip: 18.220.169.81 and ssh port is 2200

It was deployed using the ansible scripts in this repository, and the webapp can be found in my webapp-flask repository.

LICENCE

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2017 Anders Hurum

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