How do I set up a web.py apache2 server on an amazon linux ubuntu 13.04 server? - apache

Question

Web.py is free and lightweight. Amazon also provides you with a free web service for a year. How do I set up apache2 onto my server?

Answer 1

*EDIT: Formatting this is impossible. I'll try to do it later. I have such a beautifully written .txt file with fantastic formatting.
I apologize if this isn't thorough. I worked through how to set it up for my very specific setup. However, some of the annoying tricks are solved and may help you on your journey to set it up!!!
I won't walk you through signing up for amazon. There are a million tutorials out there.
Make sure you have an amazon ec2 instance up and running for ubuntu 13.04. Once you're logged in and have your instance launched, get the following going
*I've omitted some numbers as they are specific to our application and don't help.
Give yourself root access
sudo su (if you do this you dont need to sudo anything)
Get Apache 2
apt-get install apache2 apache2.2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils libexpat1 ssl-cert
Get Pip
apt-get install python-pip
Get web.py
pip install web.py
Get MySQL
apt-get install python-mysql.connector python-mysqldb mysql-client-core-5.5 mysql-server
set password to: whatever password you want
Get mod_wsgi
apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
6.1 Check to see its working
service apache2 restart
put ip address in web browser to see if it works
enable mod_rewrite
a2enmod rewrite
SFTP (filezilla)
8.1 Giving permissions to allow filezilla in
cd /var/www
mkdir legal #this is our main directory. Name it whatever you want
chown -R ubuntu /var/www/
chmod -R 755 /var/www/
8.2 Connecting in Filezilla
Open Site manager
host: some ip like 54.213.173.233
Port: 22
Protocol: SFTP
Login Type: Normal
User: Ubuntu
Pass: empty
Edit -> Setting -> SFTP: add your key
8.3 Add all of your code Using Filezilla
9 Modifying your code:
go to your main.py
9.1 Wsgifunc()
#add these somewhere in your main file
app = web.application(urls, globals(),autoreload=False)
application = app.wsgifunc()
web.config.debug = True # Change to False
db = web.database(dbn='mysql', host='127.0.0.1', port=3306, user='user goes here', pw='pas goes here', db='')
9.2 Ensure python can find all of your files
AT THE TOP OF YOUR FILE
import os
import sys
root = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(file)+"/")
sys.path.insert(0, root)
modules = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(file)+"/server/")
sys.path.insert(1, modules)
os.chdir(root)
os.environ["SCRIPT_NAME"] =''
os.environ["REAL_SCRIPT_NAME"] = ''
Configuration of apache
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
10.1 Changing the default file
vim default
change everything to:
*our main folder is called /legal. In it we have our icons and favicons and such in /static. Change these accordingly
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/legal/
DirectoryIndex main.py
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/legal/
Alias /static /var/www/legal/static/
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
#changed from non to FileInfo
AllowOverride FileInfo Options
Order allow,deny
allow from all
#ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
#
# AllowOverride None
# Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
# Order allow,deny
# Allow from all
#
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel info
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
10.2 Test to see if there are errors
apachectl configtest
10.3 Monitor For errors when messing with config files (optional)
tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log
and
11 Creating a .htaccess file
cd /var/www/legal #this is where our main file is located
vim .htaccess
Then add:
SetHandler wsgi-script
Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^favicon.ico$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(/.*)+main.py/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(/.)+.(css|png|js|jpg|ttf|otf|gif|ico)$
RewriteRule ^(.)$ main.py/$1 [PT]
#for reals, it never copies correctly... just a heads up
12 Setting up the database
cd /var/www/legal/server/subapplications
mysql -u root -p'whatever password you want'
12.1 create the database in sql
create database intravires;
###do whatever you need to do here
quit
13 Restart
service apache2 restart
13.1 If broken,Check the logs:
tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log
14 Profit!