Synopsis

Script for automating web site deployments on Debian.

Principles are:

• One domain per user.
• User can only log in via SFTP and only in the own home directory. It is necessary to create the SFTP user group.
• Separated database for the user.
• Separated app for the user.

Installation

1. Clone project repo.
2. Create user group for sftp users. For example, 'sftp'.
3. Change sshd_config file like this:

Subsystem sftp internal-sftp

Match Group sftp
ChrootDirectory %h
ForceCommand internal-sftp
AllowTcpForwarding no

4. Change settings.py file parameters each plugin.
5. Make the script executable: sudo chmod a+x userman.py

Usage

./userman.py [options]

Available options:

• --system - creates UNIX account and allows SFTP access only
• --apache - creates Apache virtual host config for the specified domain name
• --mysql - creates MySQL user and database
• --django-nginx - creates uWSGI and nginx config for Django project

Notes

• You must have mkpasswd app installed. The fact is that this utility is not available on his own, but seems to comes with the whois package.
• You must have apache2-mpm-itk module installed to set owner of the PHP process.
• You must have password for the root user to use --mysql feature.
• You must have uwsgi, uwsgi-plugin-python and virtualenv installed to use --django-nginx feature.
• Tested with Apache/2.4+ on Debian 8 only.

Author

Eugene Zyatev ([email protected]).