prestononeal/aws_sporting_goods

Configuration info for an Ubuntu web server hosting a Sporting Goods Catalog app

Sporting Goods Catalog app - Amazon AWS Server information

This project contains information on how an Amazon AWS instance was configured to host a Sporting Goods Catalog app, developed for a previous project. The goal of this project was to configure a Linux web server to securely host a web app.

IP address

52.38.237.92

Port

80

Server software installed and configuration changes

These Ubuntu packages were installed in order to get server functionality up:

1. finger
2. apache2
3. libapache2-mod-wsgi
4. postgresql
5. postgresql-contrib
6. git
7. python-pip
8. python-virtualenv
9. libpq-dev
10. python-dev

Python package dependencies for the catalog app

These packages were installed in order to run the catalog app:

7. flask
8. sqlalchemy
9. oauth2client
10. requests
11. bleach

Third party resources

1. SSH configuration: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Configuring
2. A virtual environment was created and configured using the steps here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/244641/how-to-set-up-and-use-a-virtual-python-environment-in-ubuntu. A new virtual environment was created called catalogenv was created in the Apache root, along with the cloned Catalog app.
3. For installing the psycopg2 python package, I needed to install as specified here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5420789/how-to-install-psycopg2-with-pip-on-python
4. For installing and configuring postgresql and creating new users and databases for it: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostgreSQL