cseHdz/Linux_Server

This repository contains the project for Udacity Linux Server Configuration

Linux Server

This repository contains the project for Udacity Linux Server Configuration

Requirements

Terminal Client to Run SSH into Linux.

Connection Details

URL: http://eo-u1604-vm3.southcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com
IP Address: 13.84.186.157

Connection: ssh grader@13.84.186.157 -p 2200 -i /location_of_rsa_key
User: grader

Project Overview

This repository covers the requirements for Udacity - Full Stack Web Development Item Catalog project.

This project was created using a Virtual Machine running Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS.
The machine is located in Microsofts Azure Cloud Computing Platform and Services.

On deployment the machine was upgrade through:

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get upgrade

The following configurations were performed on the server:
Timezone was upgraded thorugh sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata. Select None of the Above. Select UTC.

1. System Packages

The following packages were installed through sudo apt-get install

• Apache: apache2
• WSGI: libapache2-mod-wsgi
• PostgreSQL: postgresql
• Git: git
• Pip: pip

2. Security

1. Enable ports 2200, 80, and 123 in Azure.
2. Change SSH port to 2200, disable password based authentication, and disable remote login by root by running:
   • sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
   • Change the port to Port 2200
   • Change PasswordAutherntication to no
   • Change Permit
3. Configure Uncomplicated Firewall:
   • sudo ufw default deny incoming
   • sudo ufw default allow outgoing
   • sudo ufw allow 2200/tcp
   • sudo ufw allow www or sudo ufw allow 80/tcp
   • sudo ufw allow 123/tcp
   • sudo ufw enable

3. Grader User Details

1. Create user 'grader' through sudo adduser grader
2. Give sudo permissions to grader through:
   • Copy sudoers file: sudo cp /etc/sudoers.d/eoadmin /etc/sudoers.d/grader
   • Replace username in file to grader
3. Create an SSH pair for grader by running:
   • Create RSA key: ssh-keygen. Key will be located in resulting .pub file.
   • Run sudo nano .ssh/authorized_keys and copy Public Key in this file. Save Changes.
4. Secure the directories with the RSA Keys:
   • sudo chmod 700 .ssh (Only user can read, write, execute)
   • sudo chmod 644 .ssh/authorized_keys (Use can read and write, others can only read)

4. PostgreSQL Setup

1. Create catalog database through CREATE DATABASE catalog
2. Setup & initialize the database:
   • Setup:python /var/www/html/Item_Catalog/Item_Catalog/database_setup.py
   • Initialize:python /var/www/html/Item_Catalog/Item_Catalog/initialize_database.py
3. Login to the database psql -d catalog
4. Add new users www-data and www to ensure psycop2g compatibility createuser username
5. Grant permissions to new user for CRUD operations
   • GRANT SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE ON category to "www-data";
   • GRANT SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE ON category to "www";
6. Exit the database with \q

5. WSGI Setup

1. Modify the default site through sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
2. Enter the following code after the first set of commentary:

    WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/html/Item_Catalog/app_WSGI.wsgi
    <Directory /var/www/html/Item_Catalog/Item_Catalog/>
      Allow from all
      Order deny,allow
    </Directory>
   
    Alias /static /var/www/html/Item_Catalog/Item_Catalog/static/
   
   <Directory /var/www/html/Item_Catalog/Item_Catalog/static/>
          Allow from all
          Order deny,allow
   </Directory>```
   

3. Restart apache sudo apache2ctl restart

6. Item Catalog Application

1. Navigate to the app's desired directory through cd /var/www/html
2. Initialize git on the folder sudo git init
3. Clone GitHub repository for Item_Catalog sudo git clone https://github.com/cseHdz/Item_Catalog.git
4. The app is located in the local_flask branch sudo git reset --hard origin/local_flask
5. The following packages were installed through sudo -H pip install
   • Flask Flask
   • SQLAlchemy sqlalchemy
   • Psycopg2 psycopg2
   • oauth2client oauth2client
   • httplib2 httplib2
   • requests requests
6. For system packages please refer to Section 1.