atlantic-server 0.3.2

Server side of an application of an Aircraft Technical Log

Atlantic

This program is the sever side of the Atlantic app. It gives you a restful api.

Installation on debian 10 (or ubuntu 20.04) for production

The recommended way to install it is to use a virtual environment.

1. Install pipx, apache2, module wsgi pour apache2

   apt install pipx apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi
   

2. If your root user, create a user and log it

   adduser username
   su - username
   

3. Install atlantic_server

   pipx install atlantic_server
   cd atlantic_server
   

4. Open settings.py and adjust parameters

   • Enter a secret key to SECRET_KEY
   • Change DEBUG to False
   • Change MEDIA_ROOT to an url that points to an entry that apache2 serves (see web client side of the application)
   • save and close the file

5. Configure Django app

   ./manage.py makemigrations atl
   ./manage.py migrate
   ./manage.py collectstatic
   ./manage.py createsuperuser
   

6. Configure Apache2

   • Return to root user

     exit
     

   • Edit a new file

     nano /etc/apache2/site-available/atlantic.conf
     

   • Paste in following code

     <VirtualHost *:80>
         <Directory /home/username/atlantic_server>
             <Files wsgi.py>
                 Require all granted
             </Files>
         </Directory>
         WSGIPassAuthorization On
         WSGIDaemonProcess atl python-home=/home/username python-path=/home/username
         WSGIProcessGroup atl
         WSGIScriptAlias / /home/username/atlantic_server/wsgi.py
     </VirtualHost>
     

   • Save and close file

7. Enabled site for apache

   a2dissite *
   a2ensite atlantic
   systemctl reload apache2