/item-catalog-deployment

Submission of fullstack Udacity project

Deployment of the Item Catalog App

This repo includes the work for the last project of the Udacity Full Stack Nanodegree. The application to be deployed can be found in here.

The server used to deploy the application can be accessed as follows:

Steps:

  1. Create an Ubuntu 16.04 instance in Amazon Lightsail. Upgrade packages:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
  1. The SSH default port is changed to 2200 by modifying the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. (Note: On the Amazon Lightsail dashboard, port 2200 must be enabled). Restart SSH service:
sudo service ssh restart
  1. Enable firewall rules:
sudo ufw allow 2200/tcp
sudo ufw allow 80/tcp
sudo ufw allow 123/udp
sudo ufw enable
  1. Create a grader user, add sudo access and ssh access:
sudo adduser grader
sudo echo "grader ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" > /etc/sudoers.d/grader
sudo -s grader
mkdir /home/grader/.ssh
echo <PUBLIC KEY> > /home/grader/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 700 /home/grader/.ssh
chmod 600 /home/grader/.ssh/authorized_keys
  1. Configure UTC time:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
  1. Installl required packages and start apache service:
sudo apt-get install git apache2 postgresql
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi python-dev python-pip
sudo a2enmod wsgi
sudo service apache2 start
  1. Deploy application:
cd /var/www
sudo mkdir FlaskApp
cd FlaskApp
sudo git clone https://github.com/aproano2/item-catalog.git FlaskApp
cd FlaskApp
mv application.py __init__.py
  1. Create database as postgres user:
psql
postgres=# CREATE ROLE catalog WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'insecure';
postgres=# ALTER ROLE catalog CREATEDB;
  1. Configure host by adding the following files:
cat  /etc/apache2/sites-available/FlaskApp.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName 54.188.60.170
    ServerAdmin alejo2q@gmail.com
    WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/FlaskApp/flaskapp.wsgi
    <Directory /var/www/FlaskApp/FlaskApp/>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    Alias /static /var/www/FlaskApp/FlaskApp/static
    <Directory /var/www/FlaskApp/FlaskApp/static/>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    LogLevel warn
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

cat /var/www/FlaskApp/flaskapp.wsgi
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import logging
logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stderr)
sys.path.insert(0,"/var/www/FlaskApp/")

from FlaskApp import app as application
application.secret_key = 'Your Secret'

sudo a2ensite FlaskApp
  1. Restart Apache
sudo service apache2 restart

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