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Linux-Server-Configuration

This documents explains how to deploy your Python Flask application

About

  • Deploying system requires Linux virtual machine. I used AWS Lightsail., but you can also use Aws EC2, or DigitalOcean
  • public link is http://3.85.37.79/
  • domain name:

Skills used for this project

  • AWS lightsail
  • Python Flask and WSGI
  • Apache2
  • Ubuntu 18.04
  • creating database by Postgress SQL

Server Configuration Instruction

1. Creating a AWS Lightsail instance

  • Go to AWSLightSail and create an OS Only Ubuntu 18.04 instance.
  • Select the lowest priced plan option (for this project), identify your instance and create.
  • Download SSH key in your local machine. Name of the file is LightsailDefaultKey-us-east-1.pem
  • use connect, then Linux Machine will start
  • When you enter the virtual machine terminal , write the following command to start to update and upgrade all missing packages and security Sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade

2. SSH Keys

  • this allows you to connect your virtual machine by your local machine Terminal or FTTP program
  • Go to your AWS account and select SSH keys
  • Create .ssh folder in your local machine terminal by mkdir .ssh. if you cannot try sudo mkdir .ssh .
  • Download the default file, it woul be name like this LightsailDefaultKey-us-east-1.pem
  • Save the file in your .ssh folder.
  • Restric file permission by running chmod 600 LightsailDefaultPrivateKey-*.pem
  • Change the file name to aws.rsa.
  • To connect run in your terminal ssh -i ~/.ssh/aws.rsa ubuntu@34.201.105.57

3. CHANGE THE SERVER PORT

  • Run in your terminal sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config edit etc/ssh/sshd_config file.
  • Edit the file changing 22 to 2200 in the 5th line.
  • Save by ctrl+S and exit from nano with ctrl+X
  • Restart SSH with sudo service ssh restart

4. ADD Rules in AWS Lighthouse Page

  • it is important to add new countom port on AWS manage page under the NETWORKING tab

| Custom | TCP | 2200 |

| Custom | TCP | 5000 |

| Custom | TCP | 8000 |

| Custom | udp | 123 |

5. Setup Firewall

  • sudo ufw status The UFW should be inactive.
  • sudo ufw default deny incoming Deny any incoming traffic.
  • sudo ufw default deny outgoing Enable outgoing traffic.
  • udo ufw allow 2200/tcp # Allow incoming tcp packets on port 2200.
  • sudo ufw allow 80/tcp# Allow HTTP traffic in.
  • sudo ufw allow 123/udp # Allow incoming udp packets on port 123.
  • sudo ufw deny 22 # Deny tcp and udp packets**
  • sudo ufw enable The output should be like this Command may disrupt existing ssh connections. Proceed with operation (y|n)? y Firewall is active and enabled on system startup
  • sudo ufw status Status . check the port
  • Your output should like this
To                         Action      From
--                         ------      ----
Apache                     ALLOW       Anywhere                  
22/tcp                     ALLOW       Anywhere                  
2200/tcp                   ALLOW       Anywhere                  
123/udp                    ALLOW       Anywhere                  
80/tcp                     ALLOW       Anywhere                  
22                         DENY        Anywhere                  
2200                       ALLOW       Anywhere                  
Apache (v6)                ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)             
22/tcp (v6)                ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)             
2200/tcp (v6)              ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)             
123/udp (v6)               ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)             
80/tcp (v6)                ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)             
22 (v6)                    DENY        Anywhere (v6)             
2200 (v6)                  ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)

6. Create Grader User

  • Install finger to manage user by sudo apt-get install finger
  • to create user sudo adduser grader
  • Set password and details for user.
  • check grader by finger grader
  • Set the password and fill out info.
  • Grant sudo access sudo visudo
  • Add the following line after root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL:
  • grader ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
  • Save and close the file.
  • check the sudo permissioon by sudo -l
Matching Defaults entries for grader on ip-172-2X-14-XX:
    env_reset, mail_badpass,
    secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin\:/snap/bin

User grader may run the following commands on ip-172-2X-14-XX:
    (ALL : ALL) ALL
    (ALL : ALL) ALL

7. CREATE SSH KEYPAIR FOR GRADER USING THE SSH-KEYGEN TOOL

On .shh in your local terminal machine:

  • open your terminal on your local machine
  • Create keys ssh-keygen
  • Choose a location for the tow files ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
  • Open the file and copy the content sudo nano .ssh/authorized_keys
  • In the grader account, create the following directories:
  • sudo mkdir .ssh - cd .ssh
  • sudo nano authorized_keys
  • Paste the public key into authorized_keys file. Save and close.
  • Grant permissions
sudo chmod 700 .ssh
sudo chmod 644 .ssh/authorized_keys

Close terminal sesssion and check grader account to test connectty

  • ssh -i ~/.ssh/grader grader@34.201.105.57 -p 2200

8. Install Apache2

  • Install Apache2 & WSGI package
  • sudo apt-get install apache2
  • sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
  • Enable mod_wsgi: sudo a2enmod wsgi
  • sudo service apache2 start
  • Verify apache2 Ubuntu Default Page.

9. Install PostgreSQL Database and create tables

  • Install software sudo apt-get install postgresql
  • Setting up ubuntu role:
  • Switch to root user:
  • sudo -u postgres psql
  • alter user postgres with password 'password';
  • Create role
  • create role catalog superuser;
  • create database catalog
  • Create role catalog;
  • Allow catalog role to create a db:
  • alter role catalog CREATEDB;
  • Create catalog database
  • create database catalog
  • Exit psql:
  • \q
  • change engine of database both application python file and creating database file in ypur python script engine = create_engine('postgresql://catalog:password@localhost/catalog')

10. Clone Project

  • Install GIT sudo apt-get install git
  • Create directory to save project cd /var/www sudo mkdir webApp
  • create one more directory in cd /var/www/webApp sudo mkdir webApp totally you should create 2 directory under the www folder sudo chown -R grader:grader webApp
  • cd webApp/webApp
  • git clone https://github.com/user/project.git
  • rename the app.py file by sudo mv app.py __init__py

11. Install Missing Libraries

  • Install the follwoing dependencies: (for python2)
  • sudo -H apt-get install python-pip
  • sudo -H pip install flask
  • sudo -H pip install flask sqlalchemy
  • sudo -H pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client oauth2client
  • sudo -H pip install requests
  • sudo -H pip install psycopg2-binary.
  • if you install python3 your code should continue sudo -H pip3 install flask

12. Customise the Apache

  • Configure Apache to handle requests using the WSGI module. there is already default set file in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf. but we need to create new one
  • Lets create a new file with: sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/webApp.conf

The /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/webApp.conf should now look like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
                ServerName XX.XXX.XXX
                ServerAdmin email@gmail.com
                WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/webApp/webapp.wsgi
                <Directory /var/www/webApp/webApp/>
                        Order allow,deny
                        Allow from all
                </Directory>
                Alias /static /var/www/webApp/webApp/static
                <Directory /var/www/webApp/webApp/static/>
                        Order allow,deny
                        Allow from all
                </Directory>
                ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
                LogLevel warn
                CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
  • Enable the virtual host with the following command:
  • Reload Apache with
  • sudo service apache2 reload.
  • Enable the virtual Host sudo a2ensite webApp

13. Writing WSGI Script

  • Create and config the .wsgi file sudo nano /var/www/webApp/webapp.wsgi
  • Add the following content
import sys
import logging
logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stderr)
sys.path.insert(0,"/var/www/webApp/")
sys.path.insert(0,"/var/www/webApp/webApp")
from webApp import app as application
application.secret_key = 'xxxxxx'
  • run your script to check any bugs before serving. python webapp.wsgi
  • if there is a missing package use sudo -H pip XXXX
  • sudo service apache2 restart

Troubleshooting

  • if you have port 500 error please run sudo tail /var/log/apache2/error.log and sudo tail -100 /var/log/apache2/access.log and check the errors
  • dont forget the change JSON file location in your script
  • Google Authorization need valid domain name, xip.io extension of domain name is not accepted after 2020
  • You can access the logs of the application on the apache logs, they are located, by default, on /var/log/apache2/access.log or /var/log/apache2/error.log for errors.You'll need sudo access to read the files.

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