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= OBSOLETE - new staging is on osgeo4

wwwosgeo (staging server) is running on winnie.postgis.net virtual box ssh port 53022, passwords on secure/access server

Setup from Disk the prompts

  1. Virtual Box use VMDK, dynamically allocated, 100GB
  2. Start with debian-9.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso image ( https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-9.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso (2017-12-09)

(Regular install, don't use graphical)

  1. set mirror to debian.csail.mit.edu
  2. Participate in Package Usage: Yes
  3. Uncheck Debian Desktop Environment
  4. Check SSH server
  5. Check Web Server
  6. Uncheck Print Server
  7. Install Grub
  8. Select 2nd option (only drive)

Install LDAP SSH support

Note for the remainder of installs, I went with apt instead of (apt-get or aptitude) Per Debian Handbook apt, apt is the preferred installer and what I saw being used for newer Debians.

   su root
   apt install locales-all libpam-ldapd libnss-ldapd
   apt install sudo
   apt install tcsh


  1. During install fill in below and check passwd, group, shadow
   apt install ldapscripts

/etc/ldap/ldap.conf should have this


   BASE    dc=osgeo, dc=org
   URI     ldaps://ldap.osgeo.org/
   #SIZELIMIT      12
   #TIMELIMIT      15
   #DEREF          never
   TLS_CHECKPEER yes
   TLS_REQCERT demand
   TLS_CACERT /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt  #I'm using genric one, osgeo6 is different
   pam_groupdn cn=telascience,ou=Shell,dc=osgeo,dc=org  #not though telascience is defunct so not sure what that cn
   nss_base_passwd ou=People,dc=osgeo,dc=org
   nss_base_shadow ou=People,dc=osgeo,dc=org
   nss_base_group  ou=Group,dc=osgeo,dc=org
   ldap_version 3
   pam_password md5
   bind_policy soft

  1. copy contents of /etc/nslcd.conf from osgeo6
  1. nano /etc/nsswitch.conf

conf should look like


  # /etc/nsswitch.conf
  #
  # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
  # If you have the `glibc-doc-reference' and `info' packages installed, try:
  # `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.
  passwd:         compat ldap
  group:          compat ldap
  shadow:         compat
  gshadow:        files
  hosts:          files dns
  networks:       files
  protocols:      db files ldap
  services:       db files ldap
  ethers:         db files
  rpc:            db files
  netgroup:       nis
  aliases:        ldap

   service nscd restart
   service nslcd restart
   service ssh restart

Verify ldap authentication and query all set up

   getent passwd robe
  • should output:

robe:x:15108:100:Regina Obe:/home/robe:/bin/bash

   ldapsearch -x uid=robe
  • should output a lot of information about Regina

cp -a /etc/skel /home/robe chown -R robe:100 /home/robe

  • add robe to sudoers

sudo usermod -a -G sudo robe sudo usermod -a -G www-data robe

should now be able to log in as robe

Installing PHP, MariaDb etc for wordpress

   sudo apt install mariadb-server  #installed Mariadb 10.1


  • Install apache, php7
   sudo apt install apache2  #was already installed as part of setup so not needed
  • on debian 9, php7.0 is default, so I can dispense with php7.0 prefix,
  • for older, might have to do php7.0, libapache2-mod-php7.0 etc.
   sudo apt install php php-dev libapache2-mod-php php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-xmlrpc php-intl php-mcrypt php-xsl
   sudo apt install php-ldap

Download backups and restore, and setup website

copy configs to etc/apache2/sites-available (for this server I created staging version) copy database and sql backups from old server to /var/www/backups

   sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
   sudo a2ensite staging.www.osgeo.org.conf
   sudo a2enmod rewrite
   sudo a2enmod file_cache
   sudo a2enmod expires
   cd /var/www/backups
   tar -xvf osgeo_wp_daily.tar.gz 
   mv osgeo.org /var/www/staging.osgeo.org
   cd /var/www
   sudo chown -R www-data:www-data staging.osgeo.org
   sudo chmod -R 770 staging.osgeo.org
  1. create new database and user and restore backup
   mysql
   CREATE USER 'osgeo_site' @'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'look in config for password';
   CREATE DATABASE staging_osgeo;
   GRANT ALL ON staging_osgeo.* TO 'osgeo_site'@'localhost';
   exit
  1. restore backup
   cd /var/www/backups
   sudo gunzip osgeo_daily.sql.gz
   sudo mysql --user=root staging_osgeo  < osgeo_daily.sql
   sudo apt update
   sudo apt upgrade
   sudo reboot
  1. you may need to fiddle with the www/osgeo.org/httpdocs/core/.htaccess if you are setting up a dev
   sudo systemctl reload apache2

Install apache, php7, sendmail

   sudo apt install apache2  #was already installed as part of setup so not needed
  1. on debian 9, php7.0 is default, so I can dispense with php7.0 prefix,
  2. for older, might have to do php7.0, libapache2-mod-php7.0 etc.
   sudo apt install php php-dev libapache2-mod-php php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-xmlrpc php-intl php-mcrypt php-xsl
   sudo apt install php-ldap


Mail config needed for WP-SMTP

sudo vi /etc/hostname #set to full domain in this case staging2.www.osgeo.org

sudo apt install sendmail

download backups and restore

copy configs to etc/apache2/sites-available (for this server I created staging version) copy database and sql backups from old server to /var/www/backups

sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf sudo a2ensite staging.www.osgeo.org.conf sudo a2enmod rewrite sudo a2enmod file_cache sudo a2enmod expires

cd /var/www/backups tar -xvf osgeo_wp_daily.tar.gz mv osgeo.org /var/www/staging.osgeo.org

cd /var/www sudo chown -R www-data:www-data staging.osgeo.org sudo chmod -R 770 staging.osgeo.org

Create new database and user and restore backup
   mysql
   CREATE USER 'osgeo_site' @'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'look in config for password';
   CREATE DATABASE staging_osgeo;
   GRANT ALL ON staging_osgeo.* TO 'osgeo_site'@'localhost';
   exit
  1. restore backup
   cd /var/www/backups
   sudo gunzip osgeo_daily.sql.gz
   sudo mysql --user=root staging_osgeo  < osgeo_daily.sql
   sudo apt update
   sudo apt upgrade
   sudo reboot
  1. you may need to fiddle with the www/osgeo.org/httpdocs/core/.htaccess if you are setting up a dev
   sudo systemctl reload apache2