Third attempt at a website using everything I've learned in 2 years
- A server that you have control over
- A domain that you own pointing to that server
- Have
gitinstalled on the server - Have
Dockerinstalled on the server - Redirect incoming port 80 to 8010
- Redirect incoming port 443 to 8011
Once ready navigate to the place you want the website to exist and clone the repository,
$ git clone https://github.com/schleising/website3.git
$ cd website3
The only additional step for MongoDB is to create a file called db_server.txt in the website/database folder, this file should contain the hostname of the server (not the container) that the MongoDB instance is runnning on
No specific additional steps are needed to setup Fastapi
To run for the first time, issue the following command from the root folder of the cloned repository,
$ docker-compose up --build
Once all images are built and their containers are running, follow the steps in Nginx Setup to get a secure TLS connection
ℹ️ If you are developing locally then there is no need to follow the steps in Nginx Setup, just point your browser at localhost:8010
Once the nginx container is running, it will only serve content at that time on port 80 without TLS, to use TLS on port 443 attach to the container and create a bash instance,
$ docker exec -it <container_name> /bin/bash
And enter the following command and follow the instructions,
# certbot --nginx -d domain.com -d www.domain.com
Replacing domain.com with your domain name, this will request a certificate from Let's Encrypt
⚠️ For this step to work correctly you need to own the domain and have it pointing to the server you are running these commands on, otherwise the challenge / response sequence will fail
To detach from the container use the CTRL-p CTRL-q sequence
⚠️ There is a limit of 5 duplicate orders per week from Let's Encrypt, so make sure the nginx image is fairly stable by the time you do this