Team Server

The team has a cloud virtual server hosted at ​Digital Ocean. It runs Ubuntu 14.04 server with 512MB RAM and 20GB hard drive. The server is automatically backed up every 3 days.
See Mr. Albert for questions related to server hosting.

The server name is jupiter2.team2537.com and the static IP is 104.236.89.124. The domain name wiki.team2537.com takes you to the same server and is directed to the Wiki virtual host. So users can access the server here:

• ​ssh://jupiter2.team2537.com
• ​https://jupiter2.team2537.com:20000
• http://wiki.team2537.com/login

Administration can be performed by command line (SSH) or via ​Webmin
It is critical that the server be kept up-to-date by an administrator regularly running:

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade

• Manage ​MyProfile on server

DNS

The server has two domain names:

• jupiter2.team2537.com (host name for most services)
• wiki.team2537.com (virtual host routes directly to this wiki)

The team2537.com domain is provided through Google Apps for Education (GAFE); see Blair Chisholm for questions about domain name services.

Services

• ssh (secure console shell)
• Trac (wiki, trouble ticketing)
• apache2 (web server)
• mysql (database)
• webmin/usermin (web-based administration)

• subversion (version control - no longer used)
• git (alternative version control - also no longer used)
• gitlab (web interface for git)

User Management

Adding a new student:

• Add trac user
• Add user to appropriate group (e.g. swdev) to give them the appropriate access permissions

In addition, for students on the software team, you should also create a unix user account and add them to the swdev group; this gives them permission to access the software repositories

• ​Add unix user (System->Users and Groups]

You can also do these from the unix command line:

        sudo adduser <username>
        sudo usermod -a -G swdev <username>
        cd /var/local/trac
        sudo htpasswd .htpasswd <username>
        sudo trac-admin /var/local/trac permission add <username> swdev

Adding a new mentor:

You can add a mentor using the web interfaces as described above for students. Note that mentors should be added to both the appropriate student and mentor groups (e.g. swdev and swmentors) to ensure they have full permissions. You can do this from the command line as well:

        sudo adduser <username>
        sudo usermod -a -G swmentors <username>
        sudo usermod -a -G swdev <username>
        sudo usermod -a -G sudo <username>
        cd /var/local/trac
        sudo htpasswd .htpasswd <username>
        sudo trac-admin /var/local/trac permission add <username> cfgmgmt

Version Control

Git is used for version control.

Web Server

An ​Apache LAMP webserver is installed and is used by the Trac Wiki. Other ​virtual web servers can be added. The default web page is located ​here. Important directories for configuration are:

• /etc/apache2 (the Apache configuration files)
• /var/www/html (the default web page directory)

Trac Wiki and Defect Tracking

​Trac provides a host of features including trouble ticketing, a software repository browser, and a general-purpose wiki. The plugins ​PermRedirect and ​AccountManager are installed for additional features.

Configuration

Important directories/files for configuration include:

• /var/local/trac
• /var/local/trac/conf/trac.ini

Note that a symbolic link should be created in each of the trac sub-directories back to the VERSION file to avoid an annoying error message:

   ln -s /var/local/trac/VERSION conf/VERSION 
   ln -s /var/local/trac/VERSION db/VERSION 
   ln -s /var/local/trac/VERSION htdocs/VERSION 
   ln -s /var/local/trac/VERSION log/VERSION 
   ln -s /var/local/trac/VERSION plugins/VERSION 
   ln -s /var/local/trac/VERSION templates/VERSION

Changing team logo

Trac.ini (mentioned previously) contains a section which describes how the logo of the website is displayed. Specifically:

[header_logo]
alt = RAID 2537 - Software Development #The alt text for the logo
height = 100 #The logo's height in pixels
link = #An optional link to go to if the logo is clicked
src = site/RAIDLogo.jpg #The location of the image
width = 80 #The logo's width in pixels

Descriptions of these properties are listed in the code above. A few things to remember about all this:

• When placing the logo into the filesystem, anything listed as being in the "site" file is actually listed under /var/local/trac/htdocs
• The "alt text" mentioned above is just some text that is shown when someone hovers their mouse over the logo

Moving a logo onto the server

In order to get a logo onto the server, you will have to use the linux command scp (if you're using linux or mac) or a SCP windows client, ​WinSCP being a notable one for its PuTTY integration. The syntax for the SCP command will be

scp <file location on your local disk> <username>@jupiter2.raidtech.net:/home/<username>/

After moving the file to your local account, you will have to mv the file into /var/local/trac/htdocs. After doing, this, you should change the permissions on the file.

sudo chown root:www-data <your image name>
sudo chmod a=r <your image name>

Make sure you update the file name of your image in trac.ini after adding the image to the server, and if you need to delete the old one remember to use rm to delete the old file.