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Ziyan Mo edited this page Mar 10, 2020 · 20 revisions

Where is the production code?

It's in /home/ascit/donut, which is cloned from this repository. There are some secret configuration files that must also be present for the app to run; they should be the same as in the development clones of the repository:

  • donut/config.py: has configuration information for the dev and prod environments, e.g. database logins
  • calendar.json: has authorization information for the Google Calendar API

Apache

The production server (at http://35.162.204.135) uses Apache and mod_wsgi to run the Flask app. The Apache configuration is in /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf and the mod_wsgi configuration is /home/ascit/donut/donut.wsgi. To reload these configurations, run sudo service apache2 restart.

Logs

The Flask (Apache) logs are written to /var/log/apache2/access.log. Apache and mod_wsgi error logs are written to /var/log/apache2/error.log.

Database

The production MariaDB database is donut. See donut/config.py for the username and password.

virtualenv

The production server uses the virtualenv in /home/ascit/virtualenvs/donut-py3. To update the pip modules, activate the virtualenv by running . /home/ascit/virtualenvs/donut-py3/bin/activate in a shell and then run make update-packages in the production code directory.

HTTPS

After years of sending plaintext passwords on legacy Donut, we finally have encryption! We are using Let's Encrypt to get those sweet sweet HTTPS certificates for free. HTTPS was set up initially with this command, which obtained a cert and reconfigured Apache automatically:

sudo certbot --apache -d beta.donut.caltech.edu -m [email protected] --agree-tos

The certificates are installed in /etc/letsencrypt and the Apache HTTPS config is at /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default-le-ssl.conf. The certificate expires every 3 months, and the following command is set up as a cron job to renew it:

sudo certbot renew --post-hook 'service apache2 restart'

We should probably register it with a different email address when I'm no longer on devteam just in case the renewal script fails.

Initial configuration

Hopefully, this should never have to be done a second time, but just in case...

  1. Set up the tables in the prod DB. This requires removing the donut_test lines and the SOURCE sql/test_data.sql line in sql/reset.sql and running mysql --password=PASSWORD -u ascit donut < sql/reset.sql.
  2. Export and import legacy directory tables (Run donut/modules/directory_search/utils/export_legacy.py on legacy server and donut/modules/directory_search/utils/import_legacy.py on new server.)
  3. Run this SQL on the prod DB:
INSERT INTO marketplace_categories (cat_title) VALUES ('Textbooks');

INSERT INTO groups(group_name, group_desc, type, newsgroups) VALUES
('ug', 'All undergrads', 'ug-auto', 1);
INSERT INTO positions(group_id, pos_name) VALUES ((SELECT group_id FROM groups WHERE group_name = 'ug'), 'Member');

INSERT INTO rooms (location, title, description) VALUES 
	('SAC 23', 'ASCIT Screening Room', 'A room for watching DVDs and videos'), 
	('SAC 13', 'Group Study Room', 'Group study room in the SAC'), 
	('SAC 14', 'Group Study Room', 'Group study room in the SAC'), 
	('SAC 4', 'Music Room', 'Music room in the SAC'), 
	('SAC 5', 'Music Room', 'Music room in the SAC'), 
	('SAC 5a', 'Music Room', 'Music room in the SAC'), 
	('SAC 7', 'Music Room', 'Music room in the SAC');

INSERT INTO permissions (permission_id, permission_type, resource_name, description) VALUES
	(1, 'Admin', 'ALL', 'Grants all other permissions -- FOR DEV ONLY'),
	(3, 'View', 'Directory search hidden fields', 'Can view UID, birthday, phone number, and hometown'),
	(4, 'Edit', 'Edit pages', 'Able to edit pages'),
	(5, 'Edit', 'Upload documents', 'Able to upload documents'),
	(8, 'View', 'BOD feedback summary', 'View a summary page of all feedback'),
	(9, 'Edit', 'BOD feedback read', 'Mark a complaint read or unread'),
	(10, 'Edit', 'BOD feedback emails', 'Add or remove subscribed emails from feedback'),
	(11, 'View', 'BOD feedback emails', 'View the list of subscribed emails on feedback'),
	(12, 'Masquerade', 'Masquerade', 'Log in as other users with their permissions'),
	(13, 'View', 'ARC feedback summary', 'View a summary page of all feedback'),
	(14, 'Edit', 'ARC feedback read', 'Mark a complaint read or unread'),
	(15, 'Edit', 'ARC feedback emails', 'Add or remove subscribed emails from feedback'),
	(16, 'View', 'ARC feedback emails', 'View the list of subscribed emails on feedback'),
	(17, 'View', 'Donut feedback summary', 'View a summary page of all feedback'),
	(18, 'Edit', 'Donut feedback read', 'Mark a complaint read or unread'),
	(19, 'Edit', 'Donut feedback emails', 'Add or remove subscribed emails from feedback'),
	(20, 'View', 'Donut feedback emails', 'View the list of subscribed emails on feedback'),
	(21, 'Calendar', 'Avery', 'Edit Avery calendar'),
	(22, 'Calendar', 'ASCIT', 'Edit ASCIT calendar'),
	(23, 'Calendar', 'Bechtel', 'Edit Bechtel calendar'),
	(24, 'Calendar', 'Blacker', 'Edit Blacker calendar'),
	(25, 'Calendar', 'Dabney', 'Edit Dabney calendar'),
	(26, 'Calendar', 'Fleming', 'Edit Fleming calendar'),
	(27, 'Calendar', 'Lloyd', 'Edit Lloyd calendar'),
	(28, 'Calendar', 'Page', 'Edit Page calendar'),
	(29, 'Calendar', 'Ricketts', 'Edit Ricketts calendar'),
	(30, 'Calendar', 'Ruddock', 'Edit Ruddock calendar'),
	(31, 'Calendar', 'Other', 'Edit Other calendar'),
	(32, 'Calendar', 'Athletics', 'Edit Athletics calendar'),
	(33, 'Edit', 'Surveys', 'Create and manage surveys');
  1. Run donut/modules/directory_search/utils/update_ug_groups.py
  2. On the legacy server, log onto the database, and do
    COPY (SELECT start_date, end_date,  pos_name , org_name, uid, control
    FROM position_holders NATURAL JOIN position_titles NATURAL JOIN
    position_organizations NATURAL JOIN inums NATURAL JOIN undergrads) group_info.csv
    CSV HEADER

Then take that output and run donut/modules/groups/utils/position_importer.py

  1. Run python donut/modules/groups/utils/insert_permissions.py to insert the permissions for each group.

  2. On the legacy server, sudo -i

cd /var/lib/mediawiki 

php maintenance/dumpBackup.php --full > full.xml

to get the mediawiki dump (aka all the ascit pages).

Take that output, and run donut/modules/editor/utils/media_wiki_import.py

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