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LinuxServer

Item-catalog project hosted on a aws lightsail server

Access Details

IP address: 13.234.17.149.

Accessible SSH port: 2200.

Application URL : 13.234.17.149/candymanufacturers

Configuration Summary

  1. Updated exisitng packages

  2. Configured the UFW (SSH access from lightsail console disabled(port 22), enabled access from port 2200) allowed basic http server

  3. Created user named grader provided it sudo permissions

  4. setup secure key exchange mechnism using rsa keys for grader user to log into server

  5. Installed Apche2, mod_wsgi, PostgreSql, Python

  6. created a linux user named catalog for databse manipulation.

  7. Cloned the project from github

  8. Setup final application and environment by creating catalog.wsgi file and catalog-app.conf file

Essential system packages

  1. Apache2
  2. mod_wsgi
  3. PostgreSQL
  4. Python
  5. touch (for file creation)
  6. nano text editor
  7. Git (for cloning directory from github)
  8. SQLAlchemy
  9. Flask

Resources utilised

  1. For successfully accessign server through 2200 port SSH https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47342988/aws-ssh-port-timeout-after-changing-port-number
  2. Countering package import errors https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34461987/python3-importerror-no-module-named-xxxx https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48780634/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-oauth2client-client?rq=1
  3. No such file or directory error fix https://www.pythonanywhere.com/forums/topic/4200/