A complex sensor data server based on wsgiblank

• You need to have a user named as the application: useradd sensee
• In order to have permissions log file and session access, you need to add the user sensee to the groups adm and www-data (sudo usermod -g adm sensee and sudo usermod -g www-data sensee)
• When you are ready navigate to the root folder of the app and install it by: sudo make install
• Edit the corresponding sections of the configuration file sensee.conf

In order to make it work with Apache, you might need to add the following lines to its config (/etc/apache2/apache2.conf). However, before doing that you'd better create a backup of your current config.

DocumentRoot /var/www/

WSGIScriptAlias /sensee /usr/lib/sensee/app/sensee.py

<Directory /usr/lib/sensee/app>
    Require all granted
    ErrorDocument 500 /sensee/errorlog
</Directory>

This way multiple different wsgi applications can be served through Apache, however, it is possible to have a single application in the root. To have the module errorlog working with Apache's log, you must set the access permissions accordingly:

chmod 755 /var/log/apache2 
chmod 644 /var/log/apache2/error.log

And for the future rotation /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 must be updated as well:

The line create 640 root adm should be replaced by create 644 root adm.

The default username and password are admin. In order to specify your own usernam and password you need to edit the file users, where each line represents a user. A username (can not contain spaces) must be followed by a generated password hash (please use the provided script: scripts/passgen.py). You are free to add as many users as you like.

You have two (three) options here:

• Running sensee as a standalone python application (you might use a script sudo ./start.sh)
• Running from Apache (see the configuration above)
• Never tried yet, but there is a DAEMON mode for mod_wsgi (yes I'm aware, that this is the recommended mode for running mod_wsgi)

• Python 2.7+
• Apache 2.4.10+