manual_installation_process

Step by step installation guide of production server

This instruction is an example of setting up production server on Ubuntu 14.04. from scratch.

Creating unprivileged user

root@my-server# useradd coder --create-home --shell /bin/bash --comment 'Slava Semushin'
root@my-server# passwd coder
root@my-server# vim /etc/sudoers.d/01_coder
coder ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
root@my-server# chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/01_coder

Upgrading operating system

coder@my-server$ sudo apt-get update
coder@my-server$ sudo apt-get upgrade
coder@my-server$ sudo apt-get clean

And if reboot is required:

coder@my-server$ sudo reboot

Installing MySQL server

coder@my-server$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.5
coder@my-server$ sudo vim /etc/mysql/conf.d/utf8.cnf
[mysqld]
character_set_server=utf8
coder@my-server$ sudo service mysql restart
coder@my-server$ sudo mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE mystamps CHARACTER SET utf8;
mysql> CREATE USER mystamps@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'p@assword';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mystamps.* TO mystamps@localhost;
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Restoring database backup (optional)

user@home$  scp /path/to/backups/mysql_backup_mystamps_20140430-231001.sql.bz2 coder@my-server:~
coder@my-server$ bzcat mysql_backup_mystamps_20140430-231001.sql.bz2 |  mysql -u mystamps -p mystamps
coder@my-server$ rm -fv mysql_backup_mystamps_20140430-231001.sql.bz2

Installing JDK

coder@my-server$ sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common
coder@my-server$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
coder@my-server$ sudo apt-get update
coder@my-server$ sudo apt-get install -y oracle-java8-installer oracle-java8-set-default

Installing nginx

coder@my-server$ echo "deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ $(lsb_release -cs) nginx" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list
coder@my-server$ curl http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key | sudo apt-key add -
coder@my-server$ sudo apt-get update
coder@my-server$ sudo apt-get install nginx
coder@my-server$ sudo rm -fv /etc/nginx/conf.d/*
removed ‘/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf’
removed ‘/etc/nginx/conf.d/example_ssl.conf’