Install CouchDB Server on AWS using Bitnami and LetsEncrypt

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How to install CouchDB on AWS in 5 minutes

Install CouchDB

Create an AWS Account, then open the console at EC2 and launch a bitnami couchdb

• Create an aws account

https://console.aws.amazon.com

• Go to the EC2 Service Link in the console

https://us-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-west-1#Home:

• Click Launch Instance
• Click AWS Market Place
• Search for CouchDB
• Select the Free Tier Eligible
  • click continue
  • select t2.micro
  • add 20 GB storage
  • add name tag with value
  • make sure the security group has ports 22, 80, 443 open
  • click launch and generate or use a keypair

Install nginx

• ssh into your instance

`ssh -i [your key] bitnami@[your public dns]

• run the following cmds:

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install nginx -y

• edit the default nginx file

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

Comment out root and index Change the server_name to the sub-domain you will be using ex: db.example.com

Replace the location with the following proxy info

location / {
  proxy_pass http://localhost:5984;
  proxy_redirect off;
  proxy_set_header Host $host;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on;
}

location ~ ^/(.*)_changes {
  proxy_pass http://localhost:5984;
  proxy_redirect off;
  proxy_buffering off;
  proxy_set_header Host $host;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}

• save file, then reload

sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx

Create a A Record to your server

Using your DNS you need to create an A record pointing to the ip of your server

now dns add exampe.com db A [ip address]

Install LetsEncrypt

Still in the ssh shell we need to run the following cmds:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot

• press ENTER

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx -y

• run the cert bot script

sudo certbot --nginx -d db.example.com

Fin

Should turn this into an automated script that can run automatically maybe compile a cli with pkg to ship from s3 to run