INSTALL.md

Installing the project on the server

OS: Ubuntu 16.04

MongoDB

Install mongodb:

Source: https://docs.mongodb.com/master/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 9DA31620334BD75D9DCB49F368818C72E52529D4
echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/4.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.0.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
sudo systemctl start mongod
sudo systemctl enable mongod

Starting / stopping mongodb:

sudo service mongod start
sudo service mongod stop
sudo service mongod restart

Begin using mongodb:

mongo --host 127.0.0.1:27017

NodeJS

Source: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions

Install nodejs:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo apt-get install build-essential

At this point, npm should be installed because it comes with nodejs. Try it by running: npm -v

Install gulp:

sudo npm install -g gulp

Install PM2

Source: https://pm2.io/doc/en/runtime/quick-start/

sudo npm install -g pm2

Nginx

sudo apt-get install nginx

SSL Certificate

Source : https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntuxenial-nginx

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx

sudo certbot --nginx

Database

Create database

use octotrails

Create user

db.createUser({user: "octotrails", pwd: "octotrails", roles: ["readWrite", "dbAdmin"]})