Server setup on a Digital Ocean - Apache, PHP, RabbitMQ, Supervisor, MariaDB, CakePHP 3

installation.md

RabbitMQ

• Adding via composer - php-amqplib/php-amqplib (https://github.com/php-amqplib/php-amqplib)
• Installing RabbitMQ - https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-debian.html
• rabbitmqctl exists in the /usr/sbin folder
• RabbitMQ tutorial - http://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-one-php.html

Supervisord

• Installing Supervisor -http://supervisord.org/installing.html#internet-installing-without-setuptools
• Automatically starting supervisord - http://serverfault.com/questions/96499/how-to-automatically-start-supervisord-on-linux-ubuntu
• Simple tutorial supervisord - http://supervisord.org/running.html#running-supervisord
• Put Supervisor configuration under - /etc/supervisor

server-setup.md

• Installed mariadb
• Deployed code via gitlab.
• Created tmp folders for CakePHP 3
• Created uploads folders for CakePHP 3
• Added app.php file
• Installed composer
• Ran composer update
• Installed rabbitmq
• Ran composer dumpautoload -o
• Deployed database
• Imported existing database
• Increased innodb_buffer_pool_size to 400M
• Installed supervisorctl
• Added supervisorctl configuration. Check file above.
• Setup the shell scripts via the supervisor by adding conf files
• Created a new virtualhost configuration for the web application.

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/systemtest.osmosys.asia.conf
a2ensite systemtest.osmosys.asia.conf 
service apache2 restart

• Added the following to apache2.conffile, to remove apache version and OS reporting -

ServerSignature Off 
ServerTokens ProductOnly

• Set expose_php to off in php.ini, to disable PHP version reporting.
• Using certbot, got an https certificate for the server.

supervisord-example.conf

[unix_http_server]
file=/tmp/supervisor.sock                       ; path to your socket file

[supervisord]
logfile=/var/log/supervisord/supervisord.log    ; supervisord log file
logfile_maxbytes=50MB                           ; maximum size of logfile before rotation
logfile_backups=10                              ; number of backed up logfiles
loglevel=error                                  ; info, debug, warn, trace
pidfile=/var/run/supervisord.pid                ; pidfile location
nodaemon=false                                  ; run supervisord as a daemon
minfds=1024                                     ; number of startup file descriptors
minprocs=200                                    ; number of process descriptors
user=root                                       ; default user
childlogdir=/var/log/supervisord/               ; where child log files will live

[rpcinterface:supervisor]
supervisor.rpcinterface_factory = supervisor.rpcinterface:make_main_rpcinterface

[supervisorctl]
serverurl=unix:///tmp/supervisor.sock         ; use a unix:// URL  for a unix socket

[include]
files = /etc/supervisor/conf.d/*.conf