Info: The website is still live, but this is not longer developed. It will be replaced by: reflectapp

This is basically the underlaying system I use to manage my little personal website.

The website is live at: http://old.reboot.li

It's basically a self written "micro-cms" based on python-flask (the micro-framework) and I named it rubric-dyn.

Please feel free to explore this and use for reference. But please don't use this to simply create a copy of my website.

Note that currently this is not licensed and as such should be considered copyright protected.
Though I may release it under GPL...

Thanks :)

• python (v3)
• python-flask
• sqlite3
• pandoc (markdown conversion)
• python-pillow (for image-processing)

Create new db:

$ sqlite3 website.db < schema.sql

Copy config-example.py to config.py and adapt settings.

run server.py

starts server on port 5000

interface login via: http://:5000/interface/

Below steps were done on Arch Linux. Apache config. details etc. varies for diff. distributions.

refs:

• http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/deploying/mod_wsgi/
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Apache_HTTP_Server
• https://modwsgi.readthedocs.io/en/develop/user-guides.html

uncomment in httpd.conf:

activate SSL:

LoadModule socache_shmcb_module modules/mod_socache_shmcb.so
LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

for SSL to work obv. more steps are req.

use vhosts:

# vhosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

wsgi:

# wsgi
LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so
LogLevel info

virtual host config:

Listen 80xx
<VirtualHost *:80xx>
    ServerAdmin admin@server.org
    ServerName foo.server.org

    WSGIDaemonProcess mywebsite threads=5
    WSGIScriptAlias / /srv/wsgi/website-rubric/website_rubric.wsgi

    <Directory /srv/wsgi/website-rubric>
        WSGIProcessGroup mywebsite
        WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
        WSGIScriptReloading On
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/foo.server.org-error_log"
    CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/foo.server.org-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>

This setup uses a separate wsgi directory outside of the default apache webroot /srv/www/ for additional security/benefits.

Copy/clone files into /srv/wsgi/website-rubric.

Create wsgi entry file, website_rubric.wsgi:

import sys sys.path.insert(0, '/srv/wsgi/website-rubric')

from website_rubric import app as application

Adapt config.

Create/copy database outside of web directories.

Evtl. copy media files etc.

For image upload through the backend the webserver will need write permission on images and thumbs under website_rubric/media.

With this setup, everything (media files etc.) is served through the wsgi app.

Alternatively apache could be setup to serve the media files directly. --> ToDo