Web App Packaging Notes

Database Restore

• Install Script:

# Check for backup of old version database
if [ -f /var/hda/dbs/latest-appname.bz2 ]; then
   # Import old version database
   bzcat latest-app.bz2 |mysql -uapp -papp app
else
   # Insert new version database
   mysql -uappname -pappname appname < appname.sql;
fi

NOTE: -d = directory or -f = file

or

zcat app.sql.gz |mysql -uapp -papp app

Database Update to UTF8

echo "alter database appdb charset=utf8" | mysql -uappdb -pappdb

App Start on Boot

• Install Script:

/usr/bin/crontab -l > apache-crontab;
cat >> apache-crontab << 'EOF'
@reboot /var/hda/web-apps/appname/html/startup.sh
EOF
/usr/bin/crontab apache-crontab;
rm -rf apache-crontab;

• Uninstall Script:

/usr/bin/crontab -l > apache-crontab;
sed -i '/appname/d' apache-crontab;
/usr/bin/crontab apache-crontab;
rm -rf apache-crontab;

Find and Rename .htaccess Files

find . -name .htaccess -exec mv {} {}.tmp \;

Add Server (Service) Feature

• Install, Enable, and Start

Fedora:

install -m 755 appname /etc/init.d/;
/sbin/chkconfig appname on;
/sbin/service appname start;

Ubuntu:

install -m 755 appname /etc/init.d/;
update-rc.d appname defaults;
service appname start;

• Uninstall, Disable, and Stop

Fedora:

/sbin/service appname stop;
/sbin/chkconfig appname off;
rm -f /etc/init.d/appname;

Ubuntu:

service appname stop;
update-rc.d -f appname remove;
rm -f /etc/init.d/appname;

• Enable and Start (Fedora)

echo Reloading systemctl daemon;
systemctl daemon-reload;
echo Enabling appname service;
systemctl enable appname.service;
echo Starting appname service;
systemctl start appname.service;

• Disable and Stop (Fedora)

echo Stopping appname service;
systemctl stop appname.service;
echo Disabling appname service;
systemctl disable appname.service;
echo Reloading systemctl daemon;
systemctl daemon-reload;

• Change service run level, start, and stop priority:

Edit the service, i.e. /etc/init.d/adito and change the parameters (Run level: 0-6, start priority: 1-99, and stop priority: 1-99).

# chkconfig: 2345 56 26

Execute the following command as root user:

/sbin/chkconfig adito resetpriorities

Custom Webapp Options

Edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/####-appname.conf file (where #### is a 4 digit number). The web server will require restart to affect the changes.

• Change PHP Settings (add below ServerAlias):

<Files *.php>
php_flag short_open_tag on
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
php_flag magic_quotes_sybase Off
php_flag magic_quotes_runtime Off
php_flag register_globals Off
php_flag session.auto_start Off
php_flag suhosin.session.encrypt Off
php_value upload_max_filesize 20M
php_value post_max_size 100M
php_value max_execution_time 300
php_value zend.enable_gc off
php_value default_charset "UTF-8"
php_value iconv.input_encoding "UTF-8"
php_value iconv.internal_encoding "UTF-8"
php_value iconv.output_encoding "UTF-8"
php_value mbstring.internal_encoding UTF-8
php_value mbstring.http_output UTF-8
php_value mbstring.encoding_translation On
php_value mbstring.func_overload 6
</Files>

• Apache mod_rewrite to allow use of .htaccess for Fedora 19 (replace similar lines above </Directory>):

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted

• Apache mod_rewrite to allow use of .htaccess for older versions of Amahi (replace similar lines above </Directory>):

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcg
AllowOverride FileInfo Limit Options Indexes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

• Redirect Webapp (add below ServerAlias):

ProxyPass / http://hda:10000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://hda:10000/

RedirectPermanent / http://hda:10000/

• Redirect Webapp to SSL (add below ServerAlias):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}:10000 [R,L]

Custom .htaccess File

• Use of .htaccess for Webmin (requires Apache mod-rewrite step above):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}:10000 [R,L]

• Some Web-Applications/Frameworks come with a pre configured .htaccess file that is trying to set the AllowOverride Rule. This will result in the following error: .htaccess: AllowOverride not allowed here. Remove AllowOverride from the .htaccess file and add it to the Directory area in your web-app conf.d file that it looks somewhat like this:

<Directory "<your path">
 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
 AddHandler fcgid-script .fcg
 AllowOveride FileInfo Limit Options Indexes
 AllowOverride All
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
</Directory>

Special Instructions

• Web Link Syntax:

<a href="http://www.google.com" target="_">Google</a>

• User Log in:

The administrator login is:<br />
<blockquote>
<code>
Name:  admin<br />
Password:  admin<br />
<br />
</code>
</blockquote>

Scripted Functions

• Source file unarchives into unpack folder:

# Check for unpack folder
if [ -d unpack ]; then
  rm -rf html;
  mv unpack html;
fi

• Network Interface Name:

HDA_DEVICE=`ip route | awk '/^default/ { printf $5 }'`;

• Fully Qualified Domain Name:

HSTNM=`hostname -f`
HST=`echo $HSTNM | awk -F'.' '{print $1}'`
GRP=`echo $HSTNM | awk -F'.' '{print $2}'`
DOM=`echo $HSTNM | awk -F'.' '{print $3}' | sed 's/\..*//'`
if [$DOM == '']; then
 DOMNM='amahi.net'
else
 DOMNM=$GRP'.'$DOM
fi

• HDA Domain Name:

HDADOM=`cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep 'search' | awk '{ print $2 }'`;

or

HDADOM=$(echo "SELECT value FROM settings WHERE name='domain'" | mysql hda_production -uamahihda -pAmahiHDARulez -s)

• HDA IP Address

HDAIP=$(/sbin/ip -o -4 addr list $HDA_DEVICE | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d/ -f1);

• First Admin User:

FUSER=`/var/hda/platform/html/script/first-admin` 

or

FUSER=$(echo "SELECT login FROM users WHERE admin=1 ORDER BY id ASC LIMIT 1" | mysql hda_production -uamahihda -pAmahiHDARulez -s)

• Arch (32- or 64-bit):

ARCH=`getconf LONG_BIT`
if [  "$ARCH" = "64" ]; then
  # 64-bit
else
  # 32-bit
fi

• Check OS Version:

FVER=`cat /etc/fedora-release | awk -F'release ' '{print $2}' | sed 's/(Laughlin)//'`;
if [ $FVER == '14' ]; then
...
fi

or

FVER=`cat /etc/fedora-release | awk -F'release ' '{print $2}' | sed 's/(Verne)//'`;
if [ $FVER == '16' ]; then
...
fi

• Install Ubuntu (DEB) or Fedora (RPM) package

if [ -f /etc/fedora-release ]; then
yum localinstall -y package.rpm --nogpgcheck
fi

if [ -f /etc/lsb-release ]; then
dpkg -i package.deb
fi

Elevated Privileges (root)

• Scripts can be run from /var/hda/web-apps/*/elevated, /var/hda/apps/*/elevated or /var/hda/elevated directories.

mkdir -p elevated;
cd elevated;
cat > my-elevated-script << 'EOF'
...commands which need elevated privileges...
EOF
chmod +x my-elevated-script;
sudo ./my-elevated-script;
cd ..;
rm -rf elevated;

Miscellaneous

• Suppress Console Output

command &> /dev/null

• Remove blank lines from file

sed -i '/^$/d' filename

• Delete lines in file

sed '/pattern/d' file

• Add lines before pattern

sed -i '/pattern/i \
line1 \
line2' file

• Add lines after pattern

sed -i '/pattern/a \
line1 \
line2​' file

• Insert line based on text1 (Previous Line)

sed -i '/text1/ i\text2' /filename;

• Patch Comment:

# FIXME - this needs to be hosted in dl.amahi.org prior to going live!

• AmahiSync Web Link:

http://username.amahi.me/Public/filename

• Patch Diff:

diff -r -N -b -u html.orig html > app-patch.diff

patch -s -p0 -E << 'EOF'
.... contents of app-patch.diff here ....
'EOF'

patch -p0 -E < app-patch.diff

• Cat EOF:

with variables

cat > test << EOF
... text goes here ... 
EOF

and without variables

cat > test << 'EOF'
... text goes here ...
'EOF'

• Run as First Admin User:

su $FUSER -c command

• Redirect to specific URL (change url= to desired path (i.e. http://appname/appdirectory):

echo '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Your Page Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-to.com"></HEAD>
<BODY>
Optional page text here.
</BODY>
</HTML>' > html/index.html
chown apache:users html/index.html

Platform Services Feature

The server list is a list of service descriptions:

1. Only one service is allowed (i.e. sshd or ssh:sshd.pid).
2. Once exactly one service is picked. It's the name of the service.
3. Name is required, and it may be optionally followed by a PID file path
4. If:
   • File path doesn't start with / it's relative to /var/run/ (i.e. named:named/named.pid -> /var/run/named/named.pid)
   • PID file path starts with /, then it's used as is
   • No PID file path specified, then the PID file is assume to be /var/run/<name>.pid
   • Does not exist, otherwise the platform will do a pgrep <name>
   • Returns something, it's assumed it will be valid PIDs for that service
5. Not recommended as pgrep may pick up other processes running by a name containing <name>, e.g., ssh-agent.

systemd service template

See http://blog.hqcodeshop.fi/archives/93-Handling-varrun-with-systemd.html for details.

[Service]
Type=forking
PrivateTmp=yes
User=nobody
Group=nobody
# Run ExecStartPre with root-permissions
PermissionsStartOnly=true
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/dhis
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chown -R nobody:nobody /var/run/dhis/
# Run ExecStart with User=nobody / Group=nobody
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dhid -P /var/run/dhis/dhid.pid
PIDFile=/var/run/dhis/dhid.pid

Test Checklist

Amahi Greyhole

1. Install Greyhole and verify no errors

rpm -Uvh URL

2. Check the Greyhole log for normal behavior

tail -f /var/log/greyhole.log

3. Stop, start, and restart the service, checking status for errors

systemctl stop amahi-greyhole.service
systemctl status amahi-greyhole.service
systemctl start amahi-greyhole.service
systemctl status amahi-greyhole.service
systemctl restart amahi-greyhole.service    
systemctl status amahi-greyhole.service    

4. Add a few files to Greyhole-enabled shares and check log for errors

tail -f /var/log/greyhole.log

5. At command line, execute the following which should yield 1 line with 3 numbers

greyhole-dfree

6. Verify in dashboard that Disk Partitions appear correctly

7. Reboot machine to ensure Greyhole starts without errors

ps guax | grep greyhole
tail -f /var/log/greyhole.log

8. Verify version of amahi-greyhole installed is correct

greyhole

9. Delete 1 file and check log for activity

tail -f /var/log/greyhole.log

10. Force greyhole to manage files and check log for errors

greyhole -f
tail -f /var/log/greyhole.log

11. Empty the attic and it should reflect something being removed.

greyhole -a

12. Check log to verify still working correctly and should show sleeping.

tail -f /var/log/greyhole.log

If any of the steps are not correct, there is most likely a bug. This testing must be on an Amahi 7 machine with the latest Amahi platform and no OS updates installed. Basically it should appear like a new install.

Amahi Platform

Things to test in new platform releases:

1. users
   • creation
   • deletion
   • adding public key
   • make user admin
   • make sure admin cannot remove self from being admin
2. shares area
   • create a share, delete it
   • set all permissions, test them (at the very least visually in /etc/samba/smb.conf)
3. disks area
   • shows right disks and partitions
4. apps installation
   • with server
   • with share
   • with database
   • theme
   • plugin-based apps
5. network settings
   • create alias
   • create static IP
   • go to settings, verify that you can change the DNS provider, including custom # # settings
   • in settings, verify that the lease time can be changed
   • in settings, verify (quickly) that you can change the gateway
6. settings area
   • make sure the language can be changed
   • make sure advanced settings work and other things show up in other tabs (e.g. shares -- suggest you open that one in a separate tab and refresh)
   • make sure it's possible to restart the server and power it off
   • make sure guest dashboard is accessible when the option is checked
   • go to the themes subtab and change themes
   • go to the servers area, and see if you can stop, restart, unmonitor and otherwise permanently stop a harmless server (not a critical server like hda-ctl, mysql, apache, etc.).