setting-up-ec2-instance.md

Setting up EC2 instance

• Add ssh keys to .ssh/autohorized_keys for standard user ubuntu
• Install Ruby (see below)
• Install and configure Nginx (see below)

Install Ruby

Ruby is installed under /usr/local/libwith each ruby version in it's own directory

Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev python-software-properties libffi-dev nodejs

Add the the current user ubuntuto the staff group

sudo usermod -a -G staff ubuntu

Now log out and log back in for new group to take effect.

Install the latest version of ruby-install

Installation instructions for version 0.6.1 is replicated here

wget -O ruby-install-0.6.1.tar.gz https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install/archive/v0.6.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf ruby-install-0.6.1.tar.gz
cd ruby-install-0.6.1/
sudo make install

Installing ruby 2.4.0

We will use /usr/local/lib/ruby-2.4.0

Prepare the directory

sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/ruby-2.4.0
sudo chgrp staff /usr/local/lib/ruby-2.4.0
sudo chmod 775 /usr/local/lib/ruby-2.4.0

Install ruby

ruby-install --install-dir /usr/local/lib/ruby-2.4.0 ruby 2.4.0

And finally install bundler

/usr/local/lib/ruby-2.4.0/bin/gem install bundler

Install and configure Nginx

Install nginx

sudo apt install nginx

Get the nginx configuration files and copy them in place

cd
git clone https://github.com/greaterthan/aws-deploy.git
sudo cp aws-deploy/cobudget /etc/nginx/sites-available/
sudo cp aws-deploy/cobudget_trace.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/
cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
sudo rm default
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/cobudget cobudget

Restart the nginx server

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Install SSL certificates using certbot

Use the instructions from certbot

As the mail address for notifications, use [email protected]

Add HTTP2.0 capability by following these instructions.