Get an AWS example running.

[DinoBektesevic]

This is more for note-taking, discussion and PR collection.

A hush-hush link is shared in Slack regarding where to find the currently hosted demo/test website that uses Apache and mod_wsgi. Useful to learn what it takes to properly host with Django.

Actions:

• Setup requires enough of system-wide packages and configurations be put in place to perhaps warrant scripting it out?
  • setting up conda
  • cloning trailblazer
  • apache2 and apache2-dev or httpd-devel depending on OS
  • mod_wsgi needs to be build against conda python and then linked into system-wide Apache (requires magical invocation and sudo privileged config file modifications)
  • configuring Apache virtual host
  • For postgresql we need libq-devel, postgresql-client-common and postgresql-client-XX for debugging
  • Do we want to go for bigger tools or is shell scripting "good enough"?
  • Should this live in a separate repo?
• I noticed permission configuration can be difficult. I am worried - someone should take a look.
  • What are proper permissions we should set on our directories and what are for files (static vs things like templates for example?)
  • How do these permissions even work?
  • Do we want a more specialized file-server lin nginx