Azure and AWS Classroomnotes 07/Oct/2023

Lab Setup

• We will have two linux servers setup according to the image below
  

Steps for configuring database server:

• Create an ubuntu 20.04 instance and ssh into it
• Note for Azure: If the source setup is done in azure we can directly create a user called as qtadmin while creating the vm
• update ubuntu packages and create a user called as qtadmin

sudo apt update
sudo adduser qtadmin

• Check if the password authentication is enabled if not enable it

sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# change PasswordAuthentication from no to yes

• Now lets give admin permissions to qtadmin and swith to qtadmin

sudo usermod -aG sudo qtadmin
su qtadmin
sudo apt update

* Now mysql installation Refer Here

sudo apt update
sudo apt install mysql-server -y
sudo systemctl start mysql.service 

• Verify mysql installation

sudo mysql

• By default mysql service runs on localhost now we need to change the configuration to use private ip address. Open the file /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf
• Change the bind-address and mysqlx-bind-address from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0
  
  
• Now reload the daemon and restart the mysql

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart mysql.service

• Now we need to create a user in mysql with permissions on all databases

CREATE USER 'nop'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'nop12345';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'nop'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Setup nopCommerce

• If your setup is in AWS, We need to create a user called as qtadmin with sudo permissions
• Create an ubuntu 20.04 instance and ssh into it
• update ubuntu packages and create a user called as qtadmin

sudo apt update
sudo adduser qtadmin

• Check if the password authentication is enabled if not enable it

sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# change PasswordAuthentication from no to yes

• Now lets give admin permissions to qtadmin and swith to qtadmin

sudo usermod -aG sudo qtadmin
su qtadmin
sudo apt update

* Note for Azure: If the source setup is done in azure we can directly create a user called as qtadmin while creating the vm
* Install dotnet 7 and nopCommerce from the steps below and also Refer Here

cd /tmp
wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/20.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https aspnetcore-runtime-7.0
dotnet --list-runtimes
sudo apt install unzip -y
sudo mkdir /var/nopCommerce
cd /var/nopCommerce
sudo wget https://github.com/nopSolutions/nopCommerce/releases/download/release-4.60.4/nopCommerce_4.60.4_NoSource_linux_x64.zip
sudo unzip nopCommerce_4.60.4_NoSource_linux_x64.zip
sudo mkdir bin logs

• Now try running nopCommerce

sudo dotnet Nop.Web.dll --urls "http://0.0.0.0:5000"

• Now access the application
  
• Lets configure this application to run as a service
• Lets create a user called as nop

sudo useradd nop

• Grant full permissions to the folder /var/nopCommerce to nop user

sudo chgrp -R nop /var/nopCommerce
sudo chown -R nop /var/nopCommerce

• Now create a service called as nopCommerce by creating a file /etc/systemd/system/nopCommerce.service with following content

[Unit]
Description=Example nopCommerce app running on Xubuntu

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/var/nopCommerce
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dotnet /var/nopCommerce/Nop.Web.dll --urls "http://0.0.0.0:5000"
Restart=always
# Restart service after 10 seconds if the dotnet service crashes:
RestartSec=10
KillSignal=SIGINT
SyslogIdentifier=nopCommerce-example
User=nop
Environment=ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production
Environment=DOTNET_PRINT_TELEMETRY_MESSAGE=false

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Now enable and start the service

sudo systemctl enable nopCommerce.service
sudo systemctl start nopCommerce.service
sudo systemctl status nopCommerce.service

• Now navigate to the application http://<ip>:5000 and finish the installation.