/fsnd_linux-config

Udacity FSND final project

Udacity Linux Server Configuration

How to access

Steps

  • generated locale (locale-gen hu_HU.UTF-8)
  • added user grader and catalog w/ sudo access
  • expired grader's password (chage -d 0 grader)
  • installed provided key for grader and my own for catalog
  • updated /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts to get rid of the error messages after sudo
  • updated packages (apt-get update)
  • upgraded packages (apt-get upgrade)
  • changed ssh port in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
  • restarted SSH (service ssh restart)
  • configured/enabled ufw
  • updated timezone (dpkg-reconfigure tzdata)
  • installed the following linux apps:
    • apache2
    • libapache2-mod-wsgi
    • postgresql
    • git
    • python-pip
    • python-psycopg2
  • installed via pip:
    • SQLAlchemy
    • oauth2client
    • requests
    • httplib2
    • flask
  • installed item catalog project to /var/www/catalog
  • configured apache to load /var/www/catalog/catalog.wsgi
  • changed the app to use postgresql (instead of sqlite)
  • updated the app's clients_secrets.json files
  • figured out that I have to set app.secret_key in the wsgi file
  • added user catalog to postgresql, checked that only local connections allowed
  • addedd .htaccess disallow .git access

Resources used

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-flask-application-on-an-ubuntu-vps http://askubuntu.com/questions/323131/setting-timezone-from-terminal http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-add-postgresql-user-account/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6142437/make-git-directory-web-inaccessible