Wires #4: Production Server Setup

Yehia

2024-01-01 2024-02-25 284 words 2 minutes

Contents

Let’s configure the production environment.

Getting a domain

/posts/wires_4/godaddy.png — Acquiring a domain from GoDaddy

I have bought this domain: ayehia0.info from godaddy and configured the DNS to point to github’s IP. Now going to my domain opens up my personal website which is hosted on github pages.

Getting a server

I have also bought a server on digitalocean and created a droplet. To get started with your droplet you just created, you have to configure a user as root user is the default one (Imagine the nasty things you can do with that!). For me I have created a user called none and added my SSH public key to be able to connect in a secure way.

/posts/wires_4/digitalocean.png — Digital Ocean Droplet Settings!

Create a domain for your api

if you don’t want to write your IP each time you connect to your server you need to create an A record in the DNS section which directs to your IP.

Connecting to the Server through SSH

Once you get everything configured, it’s time to connect to the server and install all the packages and dependencies.

/posts/wires_4/ssh_connect.png — Connect to the server!

Installing dependencies

I installed dotnet, go and docker even through I can use docker directly.

Installing docker

Configuring HTTPs

It’s time to configure HTTPs, you don’t want to host your website on HTTP for security reasons ofc. Fortunately, it’s easy to achieve this using certbot which use’s Let’s Encrypt.

Following the instructions on their page (which is straight forward btw), you get HTTPs!

All together

For now everything is manual, so if we want to update any functionality to the server, we will (which isn’t ideal):

SSH to the Server
Make changes
Run server

In the upcoming blogs you will create some CI/CD.