added deployment instructions and fixed some deployment issues.

README.md

@@ -74,14 +74,12 @@ We wrote these installation notes, so you can set up the website easily:
 To Do:
 
 ```shell
-sudo apt install python3 virtualenv uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-python3 nginx 
+sudo apt install python3 virtualenv uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-python3 nginx git
+cd /srv
+sudo git clone https://github.com/b3yond/ticketfrei
+cd ticketfrei
 ```
 
-* set up nginx
-* set up LetsEncrypt https://certbot.eff.org/
-* set up mariadb
-* set up uwsgi
-
 Install the necessary packages, create and activate virtualenv:
 
 ```shell
@@ -105,6 +103,12 @@ vim config.toml
 This configuration is only for the admin. Users can log into
 twitter/mastodon/mail and configure their personal bot on the settings page.
 
+Set up LetsEncrypt:
+```shell
+sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx -t stretch-backports
+sudo certbot --authenticator webroot --installer nginx --agree-tos --redirect --hsts 
+```
+
 Deploy ticketfrei with uwsgi:
 
 ```shell
@@ -115,7 +119,8 @@ sudo sed -r "s/example.org/$DOMAIN/g" deployment/example.org.conf > /etc/nginx/s
 
 # create folder for socket
 sudo mkdir /var/run/ticketfrei
-sudo chown tech:www-data -R /var/run/ticketfrei
+sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/run/ticketfrei
+sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/log/ticketfrei
 
 # start up nginx
 sudo service nginx restart
@@ -125,3 +130,18 @@ sudo cp deployment/ticketfrei-web.service /etc/systemd/system/
 sudo systemctl daemon-reload
 sudo systemctl start ticketfrei-web.service
 ```
+
+### Logs
+
+There are several logfiles which you can look at:
+
+```
+# for the uwsgi deployment:
+less /var/log/ticketfrei/uwsgi.log
+
+# for the systemd service:
+less /var/log/syslog
+
+# for the nginx web server:
+less /var/log/nginx/example.org_error.log
+```

deployment/ticketfrei-web.service

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Description=Ticketfrei Web Application
 After=syslog.target network.target
 
 [Service]
+WorkingDirectory=/srv/ticketfrei
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/uwsgi --ini /srv/ticketfrei/deployment/uwsgi.ini
 # Requires systemd version 211 or newer
 RuntimeDirectory=uwsgi

deployment/uwsgi.ini

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ master = true
 uid = www-data
 gid = www-data
 processes = 1
-# logto = /var/log/ticketfrei.log
+logto = /var/log/ticketfrei/uwsgi.log
 socket = /var/run/ticketfrei/ticketfrei.sock
 chmod-socket = 660
 wsgi-file = /srv/ticketfrei/frontend.py
-virtualenv = /srv/ticketfrei/venv
+virtualenv = /srv/ticketfrei

wsgi.py

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import sys
+
+sys.path.insert(0, '/srv/pythonenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/')
+
+# import web application
+from frontend import application