Udacity full stack developer Fifth project linux server configuration

Website Info:

website is hosted on Amazon lightsail Ip address: 3.121.185.127 SSH Port: 2200

VPS configration:

follow the following steps:

1: Create grader username:

create a username grader by excuting the following command: sudo adduser grader
give the grader sudo access with usermod -aG sudo grader

2: update server packages:

Update and upgrade packages: sudo apt update then sudo apt upgrade

3: Change the default SSH port:

change the SSH port : sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config then change port number from 22 to 2200
then restart the ssh service by: sudo service ssh restart

4:configure the firewall to close all the ports but SSH port 2200 and HTTP port 80 and NTP port 123:

sudo ufw allow 2200/tcp
sudo ufw deny 22
sudo ufw allow 80/tcp
sudo ufw allow 123/udp
sudo ufw allow ssh
sudo ufw allow www
sudo ufw allow ftp
sudo ufw enable

5: change the time zone to UTC:

by sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata then choose none of the above then choose UTC

6: Generate SSH key:

Run ssh-keygen
save the file in /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa
switch to grader sudo login grader
make ssh directory in grader mkdir .ssh
make authorized_keys file touch .ssh/authorized_keys
Give the permissions : chmod 700 .ssh and chmod 644 .ssh/authorized_keys.
nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config , change PasswordAuthentication to no
then restart the SSH service sudo service ssh restart

7: Install Apache and mod_wsgi:

sudo apt-get install apache2 and sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi python-dev
Enable mod_wsgi with sudo a2enmod wsgi
start the webserver sudo service apache2 start

8: Clone the Catalog from Github:

First install git sudo apt-get install git
Navigate to www directory: cd /var/www
make catalog directory: sudo mkdir catalog
navigate to catalog cd catalog
clone the repo git clone "github repo link" catalog

9: Create a catalog.wsgi file:

run nano catalog.wsgi, Then write this inside catalog.wsgi:

import sys
import logging
logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stderr)
sys.path.insert(0, "/var/www/catalog/")
from catalog import app as application
application.secret_key = 'secret key'
WTF_CSRF_ENABLED = True

Then rename application.py (your main python file) to __ini__.py mv application.py __init__.py

10: install dependencies:

Flask pip3 install Flask
And the catalog project dependencies: ```sudo pip3 install httplib2 oauth2client sqlalchemy flask-sqlalchemy psycopg2-binary bleach requests sqlalchemy_utils``

11: Configure and enable virtual host:

with sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
and change it with your server info

12: Install Postgres:

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev python-dev
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
sudo su - postgres
Then we create database for our project by:
psql
CREATE USER catalog WITH PASSWORD 'password';
ALTER USER udacity CREATEDB;
CREATE DATABASE catalog WITH OWNER udacity;
\c catalog
REVOKE ALL ON SCHEMA public FROM public;
GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA public TO catalog;

- DO NOT FORGET TO CHANGE YOUR DATABASE ENGINE IN YOUR APPLICATION

13: Restart our apache server:

we restart apache so the changes apply sudo service apache2 restart -Done.

technical info:

Basic info:

This application has a build in web server that surves a web catalog for car makers and car models the user can authinticate via google account or github account and add,edit or delete their own data.

API:

there is two JSON endpoints:

/model/<id>/JSON: displays a single car model of id
/carmaker/<id>/JSON: displays all car models grouped by carmaker

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