Infrastructure

Infrastructure

This page describes the hardware/software infrastructure for the Open Food Facts + Open Beauty Facts projects.

New server install log

OFF and OBF have been hosted from 2012 to 2016 on a (now very old) OVH dedicated server that is also hosting other projects. On June 13th 2016, a new dedicated server has been ordered specifically for OFF and OBF.

Hardware

• E3-SAT-3 Intel Xeon E3 1245v2 4 c / 8 t 3.4 GHz+ 32 Go 2x 2 To SATA3 Soft 16* 40.00€ HT (SOIT 48.00€ TTC)
• http://www.soyoustart.com/fr/offres/e3-sat-3.xml

Server setup

• Order server and pay.
• Login to manager https://eu.soyoustart.com/manager
• Install server
  • Debian 8.4 Stable Jessie

Server configuration

• uname -a
  • Linux ns3362784.ip-37-187-74.eu 3.14.32-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64 #7 SMP Wed Jan 27 18:05:09 CET 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• perl -v
  • This is perl 5, version 20, subversion 2 (v5.20.2) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi

Basic configuration

• apt-get update
• apt-get upgrade
• apt-get install fail2ban
• apt-get install sudo

• apt-get install build-essential
• apt-get install git

Users

• admin users with sudo access
• off user

DNS

Product Opener needs a domain, with a A record for the domain itself and another wildcard A record for all subdomains.

For testing the new server, we will be using openfoodfacts.eu

Product Opener dependencies

exim

• apt-get install exim4
• dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
  • Internet Site mail is sent by smtp
  • 127.0.0.1

MongoDB

See https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-debian/

apt-get install mongodb

MongoDB shell version: 2.4.10

service mongod stop mv /var/lib/mongodb /home/mongodb

vi /etc/mongod.conf

#  dbPath: /var/lib/mongodb
  dbPath: /home/mongodb

service mongod start

Stars with some warnings:

mongo
MongoDB shell version: 3.2.7
connecting to: test
Server has startup warnings:
2016-06-13T19:34:08.245+0200 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]
2016-06-13T19:34:08.246+0200 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] ** WARNING: Cannot detect if NUMA interleaving is enabled. Failed to probe "/sys/devices/system/node/node1": Permission denied
2016-06-13T19:34:08.246+0200 W CONTROL  [initandlisten]
2016-06-13T19:34:08.246+0200 W CONTROL  [initandlisten] Failed to probe "/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage": Permission denied
2016-06-13T19:34:08.246+0200 W CONTROL  [initandlisten]
2016-06-13T19:34:08.246+0200 W CONTROL  [initandlisten] Failed to probe "/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage": Permission denied
2016-06-13T19:34:08.246+0200 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]

Apache / mod_perl and nginx

Apache 2 + mod_perl serve the dynamically generated HTML pages from Product Opener.

nginx is installed on port 80 as a reverse proxy. It serves the static files (images, JS, CSS etc.) and proxies the dynamic requests to the Apache server on another port.

apt-get install apache2

1. stop apache in order to be able to install nginx (default port 80)

service stop apache2

apt-get install nginx

Product Opener

Libraries

• apt-get install zlib1g-dev

Perl modules

apt-get install libwww-perl libimage-magick-perl libxml-encoding-perl libtext-unaccent-perl libmime-lite-perl libcache-memcached-fast-perl libjson-perl libclone-perl libgraphviz-perl libmime-lite-perl libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl libencode-detect-perl libgraphics-color-perl libbarcode-zbar-perl libxml-feedpp-perl libmongodb-perl liburi-find-perl libxml-simple-perl

Some modules seem not to have Debian packages and must be built using CPAN:

cpan
install URI::Escape::XS
install Encode::Punycode
install GraphViz2
install HTML::Defang
install Algorithm::CheckDigits
install Geo::IP
install Image::OCR::Tesseract
install DateTime::Format::Mail
install DateTime::Format::CLDR
install DateTime::Locale

Symbolic links in cgi directory =

ls -lrt |grep -- "->"

Make sure all links are pointing to the right path.

/home/off/cgi# rm Blogs
/home/off/cgi# ln -s /home/off/cgi Blogs

ln -s SiteLang_off.pm SiteLang.pm

vi /home/off/cgi/startup.pl
# Needs to be configured
use lib "/home/off/cgi/";

vi /home/cgi/Config2.pm
-> put right values for server domain, home path, and mongodb database name