Setting up an image for the www.sapsailing.com web server

This is an add-on to the regular EC2 image set-up described here, but leave out the following packages during installation because they are not needed on the webserver:

libstdc++48.i686 (for Android builds)
glibc.i686 (for Android builds)
libzip.i686 (for Android builds)
telnet
chrony (ntp is used now instead)

Then carry out these steps:

install additional packages: yum install fail2ban git mod24_perl perl perl-CGI perl-Template-Toolkit perl-HTML-Template perl-CPAN perl-DBD-MySQL mod24_ssl php71 php71-mysqlnd mod24-ldap ruby24 ruby24-devel rubygems24 rubygems24-devel icu libicu-devel gcc-c++ ncurses-devel geoip-devel
activate NFS by calling chkconfig nfs on; ensure that /var/log/old and /home/scores are exposed in /etc/exports as follows:
```
/var/log/old 172.31.0.0/16(rw,nohide,no_root_squash)
/home/scores 172.31.0.0/16(rw,nohide,no_root_squash)
```
launch the NFS service once using service nfs start
run the following command in order to obtain this feature required by Bugzilla:
```
cpan install Date::Parse Email::Address Email::Send DBI Geo::IP::PurePerl
```
make sure /etc/alternatives/ruby and /etc/alternatives/gem point to /usr/bin/[ruby|gem]2.4

run the following commands to install gollum and uninstall a too current rack version 2.0.3:

gem install gollum
gem uninstall rack
Select gem to uninstall:
 1. rack-1.6.8
 2. rack-2.0.3
 3. All versions
> 2

You have requested to uninstall the gem:
        rack-2.0.3

sinatra-2.0.0 depends on rack (~> 2.0)
If you remove this gem, these dependencies will not be met.
Continue with Uninstall? [yN]  y
Successfully uninstalled rack-2.0.3

ensure there are users and groups for wiki, scores, wordpress, trac that match up with their /home directory owners / groups
ensure the Wiki startup script serve.sh configured for port 4567 and config.ru as well as the entire Gollum installation under /home/wiki are present, as well as the users.yml file
ensure there is a reasonable /root/.goaccess file
Configure goaccess by adjusting /etc/goaccess.conf such that it contains the following lines:
```
...
time-format %H:%M:%S
...
date-format %d/%b/%Y
...
# NCSA Combined with virtual host name as prefix:
log-format %v %h %^[%d:%t %^] "%r" %s %b "%R" "%u"
```
Note that the log-format piece is slightly different from the regular NCSA Combined Log Format in so far as it adds %v at the beginning which is capturing the virtual host name that our Apache servers are configured to log as the first field in each line.
ensure there is the /etc/tmux.conf file that maps your hotkeys (Ctrl-a vs. Ctrl-b, for example)
rename the welcome.conf file of the Apache configuration because it harms directory index presentation:
```
cd /etc/httpd/conf.d
mv welcome.conf welcome.conf.org
```
install bugzilla to /usr/share/bugzilla and /var/lib/bugzilla
create /etc/bugzilla/localconfig
set up crontab for user wiki as */10 * * * * /home/wiki/syncgit and make sure the script is in place
comment lbmethod_heartbeat_module in /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-proxy.conf because we don't need this sort of load balancing across origin servers and it causes a warning message in error_log

install awstats to /usr/share/awstats, establish /etc/httpd/conf/passwd.awstats, establish a configuration under /etc/awstats, establish AWStats data directory under /var/lib/awstats and create /etc/cron.weekly/awstats as follows:

#!/bin/bash
su -l -c '/usr/share/awstats/tools/awstats_updateall.pl now         -configdir="/etc/awstats"         -awstatsprog="/usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl" >>/var/log/awstats-cron.out 2>>/var/log/awstats-cron.err'
#exec /usr/share/awstats/tools/awstats_updateall.pl now         -configdir="/etc/awstats"         -awstatsprog="/usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl" >>/var/log/awstats-cron.out 2>>/var/log/awstats-cron.err
exit 0

Follow the mail setup instructions

Install the backup.sh script with the following contents:

#!/bin/sh

# This is a template for creating backup of data and persist them
# to a central backup server. Make sure to adapt this script to your needs.
#
# Maintainer: simon.marcel.pamies@sap.com

export HOME=/root

# Directories to backup
BACKUP_DIRECTORIES="/etc /home/trac/git /home/trac/mailinglists /home/trac/maven-repositories /home/trac/p2-repositories /home/trac/releases /home/trac/sapsailing_layouts.git /var/www/static /home/trac/crontab /home/scores /var/log/old"

# Prefix for backup - set that to the hostname of your server
# Make sure to change this!
PREFIX="webserver"

# Directory for temporary files
TARGET_DIR=/tmp

# Configuration for external backup server - needs a ssh key
BACKUP_SERVER="backup@172.31.25.136"

# Set date for this backup - this makes it possible to compare
# files from different branches
BACKUP_DATE=`date +%s`

# Aliases
BUP_CMD="/opt/bup/bup"
BUP_ADDITIONAL="-r $BACKUP_SERVER:/home/backup/$PREFIX"
BUP_IGNORES='--exclude-rx=/war/$ --exclude-rx=/cache/unique-ips-per-referrer/stats/'
BUP_CMD_INDEX="$BUP_CMD index $BUP_IGNORES"
BUP_CMD_SAVE="$BUP_CMD save --date=$BACKUP_DATE $BUP_ADDITIONAL"

PARAM=$@

# Make sure to init remote repository
$BUP_CMD init
ssh $BACKUP_SERVER "/opt/bup/bup init -r /home/backup/$PREFIX"

# Backup general directories
for OTHER_DIR in $BACKUP_DIRECTORIES; do
        NORMALIZED_DIR_NAME=${OTHER_DIR//\//-}
        $BUP_CMD_INDEX $OTHER_DIR
        $BUP_CMD_SAVE -n dir$NORMALIZED_DIR_NAME $OTHER_DIR
        # no need to remove any backup files here
done

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=simon.marcel.pamies@sap.com
HOME=/

# For details see man 4 crontabs

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  * user-name command to be executed
0 22 * * * root /opt/backup.sh

Install Wordpress
Install gollum Wiki
Copy git contents of ssh://trac@sapsailing.com/home/trac/git to /home/trac/git
Ensure there is a /home/scores directory with subdirectories barbados, kiwo, sailwave, scores, velum, and xrrftp.
Establish the Apache web server configuration, in particular ensure that the SSL certificates are in place (see here) and the following files are set up: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, /etc/httpd/conf/passwd.awstats, /etc/httpd/conf/passwd.git, and /etc/httpd/conf/conf.d/*.conf.
Update the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network: HOSTNAME=analytics-webserver
Run chkconfig sendmail off; chkconfig postfix on to make sure that the postfix mail server is the one that will be launched during boot
Reboot the system, among other things for the hostname change to take effect, and in addition to see whether all services start properly

configure fail2ban by editing /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf, entering reasonable e-mail configuration for the ssh-iptables filter as follows:

[ssh-iptables]

enabled  = true
filter   = sshd
action   = iptables[name=SSH, port=ssh, protocol=tcp]
           sendmail-whois[name=SSH, dest=axel.uhl@sap.com, sender=fail2ban@sapsailing.com]
logpath  = /var/log/secure
maxretry = 5

Ensure that fail2ban will be started automatically when the instance starts: chkconfig --level 23 fail2ban on and start it right away with service fail2ban start. You can see which filters are active using service fail2ban status.

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BACKUP_DIRECTORIES="/etc /home/trac/git /home/trac/mailinglists /home/trac/maven-repositories /home/trac/p2-repositories /home/trac/releases /home/trac/sapsailing_layouts.git /var/www/static /home/trac/crontab /home/scores /var/log/old"

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Setting up an image for the www.sapsailing.com web server

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