Instructions for setting up new expo debian server/VM For Debian Stretch, June 2019. [Note added March 2021: See also http://expo.survex.com/handbook/troggle/serverconfig.html and troggle/README.txt ] adduser expo apt install openssh-server mosh tmux mc zile emacs-nox mc most ncdu apt install python-django apache2 mysql-server survex make rsync apt install libjs-openlayers make apt install git mercurial mercurial-server? for boe: apt install libcgi-session-perl libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl libfile-slurp-perl libgit-wrapper-perl libhtml-template-perl libhtml-template-pro-perl libmime-lite-perl libtext-password-pronounceable-perl libtime-parsedate-perl libuuid-tiny-perl libcrypt-cracklib-perl obsolete-packages: bins (move to jigl?) (for photos) python-django 1.7 backports: survex therion not-packaged: caveview make these dirs available at top documentroot: cuccfiles expofiles loser (link to repo) tunneldata (link to repo) troggle (link to repo) expoweb (link to repo) boc/boe config containing: setup apache configs for cucc and expo #disable default website a2dissite 000-default a2ensite cucc a2ensite expo a2enmod cgid Boe config: Alias /boe /home/expo/boe/boc/boc.pl AddHandler cgi-script .pl SetHandler cgi-script Options +ExecCGI Require all granted And remember to set both program and data dir to be www-data:www-data (optionally make file group read/write by treasurer account) create empty repo by clicking create in boe interface then set names in 'settings' Set up mysql (as root) mysql -p CREATE DATABASE troggle; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON troggle.* TO 'expo'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'somepassword'; install django: sudo apt install python-django python-django-registration python-django-imagekit python-django-tinymce fonts-freefont-ttf libapache2-mod-wsgi python-django-imagekit comes from https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/python-django-imagekit python-django-tinymce comes from https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/python-django-tinymce (both modified for stretch/python2). packages under /home/wookey/packages/ need fonts-freefont-ttf (to have truetype freesans available for troggle via PIL) need libapache2-mod-wsgi for apache wsgi support. On stretch the django 1.10 is no use so get rid of that: apt remove python3-django python-django python-django-common python-django-doc Then replace with django 1.7 (Needs to be built for stretch) apt install python-django python-django-common python-django-doc apt install python-django-registration python-django-imagekit python-django-tinymce then hold them to stop them being upgraded by unattended upgrades: echo "python-django hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections echo "python-django-common hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections echo "python-django-doc hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections #troggle has to have a writable logfile otherwise the website explodes # 500 error on the server, and apache error log has non-rentrant errors create /var/log/troggle/troggle.log chown www-data:adm /var/log/troggle/troggle.log chmod 660 /var/log/troggle/troggle.log