provisioning_notes.md

Provisioning a new site

Required packages:

• nginx
• Python 3
• Git
• pip
• virtualenv

on Fedora 20:

sudo yum install nginx git python3 python3-pip
sudo pip3 install virtualenv

Nginx Virtual Host Config

• nginx.template.conf
• replace SITENAME and USERNAME with appropriate value

Systemd

• see gunicorn.service
• replace SITENAME and USERNAME with appropriate values

Folder structure:

Assume that we have a user account at /home/username

/home/username
         └── sites
              └── SITENAME
	           ├── database
	           ├── source
	           ├── static
	           └── virtualenv

Deployment

The actual deployment takes place from within the deploy_tools folder:

$ fab deploy:host=[email protected]

To restart gunicorn:

Use the systemctl command (which makes use of scripts that are located in (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ )

sudo systemctl restart feralo.com