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Production Web Server Setup and Deployment Guide

This is a detailed runbook for setting up a production server on an Ubuntu 16.04 cloud VPS for automated deployment of static web content to be served by an NGINX web server and Node.js web application behind an NGINX reverse-proxy, both with SSL/TLS (https) support.

The steps are as follows:

1. Create a VPS instance
2. Set Up Server Security
   1. Update Server Software
3. Create a non-root user

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#!/bin/sh

# Based on gist.github.com/gboudreau/install-ffmpeg-amazon-linux.sh
# and https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Centos
if [ "`/usr/bin/whoami`" != "root" ]; then
    echo "You need to execute this script as root."
    exit 1
fi

cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/centos.repo<<EOF

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Using OTP's observer (appmon replacement) remotely

$ ssh remote-host "epmd -names"
epmd: up and running on port 4369 with data:
name some_node at port 58769

Note the running on port for epmd itself and the port of the node you're interested in debugging. Reconnect to the remote host with these ports forwarded:

$ ssh -L 4369:localhost:4369 -L 58769:localhost:58769 remote-host