Complete walkthrough of setup on Centos 7

Steps I took to setup the demo site using Centos 7 (64 bit). This was setup using a cheap VPS with these specifications:

• 4 CPU Cores
• 4096MB (4GB) RAM
• 30GB SSD Storage
• 1Gbps Network

Here are the steps:

• Update packages
  • # yum upgrade
• Create a non-root user with wheel access
  • # adduser username
  • # passwd username
  • # usermod -aG wheel username
  • Now log in as this new user
• Install Screen, Nano and Midnight Commander
  • sudo yum install -y screen nano mc
• Install Nginx
  • sudo yum install epel-release
  • sudo yum install nginx
  • sudo systemctl start nginx
  • sudo systemctl enable nginx
  • If you are using firewall-cmd:
  • • sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
  • • sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https
  • • sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=8080/tcp
  • • sudo firewall-cmd --reload
  • Modify the nginx.conf file to have the port forwarding to proxy to Roadie.Api running (default is at port 5555)

      server { 
        listen 8080 ssl http2; # certificate configurations here 
        location / { 
            proxy_pass http://localhost:5555;
        }
     }
    

  • If you are using roadie-vuejs modify the nginx.conf file to have the error_page setup to return to index

    server { 
           error_page 404 /index.html; 
           index index.html; 
           root /path/to/roadie-vuejs; 
           server_name your_host.your_domain; 
       }
    

  • setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1
• Setup Lets Encrypt
  • This is a good reference article from DigitalOcean.
  • This requires your domain to have a DNS record. Ensure that your IP for your server resolves to a DNS address by creating at least the 'www.your_server.your_domain' DNS A record.
  • sudo yum install certbot-nginx
  • Modify your Nginx configuration and setup your server name.
  • sudo systemctl reload nginx
  • sudo certbot --nginx -d your_hostname.your_domain -d www.your_hostname.your_domain
• Install MariaDB
  • sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo

  •    name = MariaDB 
       baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.3/centos7-amd64 
       gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
       gpgcheck=1```
    

  • sudo yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client -y
  • sudo firewall-cmd --reload
  • sudo systemctl start mariadb
  • sudo systemctl enable mariadb
  • sudo mysql_secure_installation (remember the root password you provide here)
• Create the database and the database user
  • mysql -u root -p
  • create database roadie CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
  • grant all privileges on roadie.* to roadie@'localhost' identified by 'some_password_you_like';
  • flush privileges;
  • \q
  • mysql -u root -p roadie < roadie.sql (found here)
• Install dotnet core
  • sudo rpm -Uvh https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm
  • sudo yum update
  • sudo yum install dotnet-sdk-<version>
  • dotnet --version
• Modify the appsettings.json file in the Roadie.Api folder ensure the connection string has the server, user and password setup above for MariaDB.
• Ensure you have your CORSOrigin setup proper for the demo server (running at www.roadie.rocks) the configuration is:
• • "CORSOrigins": "https://www.roadie.rocks|https://www.roadie.rocks:8080"

At this point you can either start a screen session and run dotnet Roadie.Api.Dll or Setup a service:

• Edit /etc/systemd/system/roadie.service:

    [Unit]  
    Description=Roadie service  
  
    [Service]  
    ExecStart=/usr/bin/dotnet Roadie.Api.dll  
    WorkingDirectory=/<directory_to_your_Roadie_dll/  
    User=<user_to_run_as>  
    Group=<group_to_run_as>  
    Restart=on-failure  
    SyslogIdentifier=roadie-service  
    PrivateTmp=true  
  
    [Install]  
    WantedBy=multi-user.target
  

• Reload systemd sudo systemctl daemon-reload
• Start service sudo systemctl start roadie
• Enable service to restart at boot sudo systemctl enable roadie
• Check status of service sudo systemctl status roadie