Ubuntu Server + Nginx + Dropbox + uwsgi Apps

README.md

Install

Create a websites user.

sudo adduser --disabled-password --home /src/websites websites

Login and install dropbox.

sudo -s su - websites
cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -

Logged as the websites user, install the dropbox cli tool

mkdir bin
cd bin
wget https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/dropbox.py
chmod +x dropbox.py

Setup your DNS

Add a Website

Share a Website

dropbox.conf

# dropbox
description "starts the dropbox client"

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on shutdown

respawn

umask 0027

script
        export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
        exec su -s /bin/sh -c /srv/websites/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd websites
end script

nginx_default.conf

map $http_accept_language $lang {
        default es;
        ~en en;
}

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

        index index.html index.htm;
        server_name ~^(www\.)?(?P<domain>.+)$;
        root /srv/websites/Dropbox/Hosts;

        location = /favicon.ico {
                access_log     off;
                log_not_found  off;
        }

        location ~ /[._]+ {
                deny all;
                return 404;
        }

        location / {
                root /srv/websites/Dropbox/Hosts/$domain;
                index index.html index.$lang.html;
                autoindex on;

                access_log /var/log/nginx/access.website-$domain.log;
                error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.website-$domain.log error;

                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }
}