A dirty mwa2 ubuntu 16 guide.

mwa2_ubuntu16.md

A dirty guide to setup MWA2 on Ubuntu 16. I want to convert this into a blog just haven't found the time.

Go full yolo sudo su

Install packages apt-get install git nginx python-pip python-dev

Let's create our mwa2 web config (no ssl so it's easier & using root because yolo) This is also bad practice since we're writing directly to sites-enabled. You might need to make changes to this config so it doesn't fight with other configurations you might have.

nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mwa2.conf

server {
  listen 80; # Might need an alternative port like 8080 if no DNS access
  server_name admin.example.com; # Change this

  location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

  location / {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    add_header P3P 'CP="ALL DSP COR PSAa PSDa OUR NOR ONL UNI COM NAV"';
    port_in_redirect off;
    proxy_connect_timeout  300s;
    proxy_send_timeout  600s;
    proxy_read_timeout  600s;
  }
}

A script to install mwa2. So read the commands if you want to know what is happening. First lets write the script to disk. This script does the installation.

mkdir /setup

nano /setup/mwa2_install.sh

Make sure and change the very last echo line to match the info you want. Default account is U: admin P: password

#!/bin/bash
set -x
useradd -M mwa2_user
usermod -L mwa2_user
pip install virtualenv
cd /usr/local/
virtualenv mwa2_env
cd mwa2_env
source bin/activate
pip install Django==1.9.1
pip install django-wsgiserver==0.8.0rc1
pip install gunicorn==19.4.5
sed -i "s/self.validate(display_num_errors=True)/self.check(display_num_errors=True)/" lib/python2.7/site-packages/django_wsgiserver/management/commands/runwsgiserver.py
git clone https://github.com/munki/mwa2.git
git clone https://github.com/munki/munki.git
cp mwa2/munkiwebadmin/settings_template.py mwa2/munkiwebadmin/settings.py
sed -i "s/'\/Users\/Shared\/munki_repo'/'\/usr\/local\/munki_repo'/" mwa2/munkiwebadmin/settings.py
sed -i "s/'\/usr\/local\/munki\/makecatalogs'/'\/usr\/local\/mwa2_env\/munki\/code\/client\/makecatalogs'/" mwa2/munkiwebadmin/settings.py
python mwa2/manage.py migrate --noinput
python mwa2/manage.py collectstatic --noinput
echo "from django.contrib.auth.models import User; User.objects.create_superuser('admin', '[email protected]', 'password')" | python mwa2/manage.py shell
deactivate
chown -R mwa2_user:mwa2_user /usr/local/mwa2_env

Add execute bit chmod +x /setup/mwa2_install.sh

Run the script /setup/mwa2_install.sh

Let's create a service to run mwa2 nano /etc/systemd/system/mwa2.service

[Unit]
Description=MunkiWebAdmin2
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/mwa2_env/bin/python /usr/local/mwa2_env/mwa2/manage.py runwsgiserver port=8001 host=127.0.0.1
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Start and enable the serivce systemctl start mwa2

systemctl enable mwa2

Restart our web server systemctl restart nginx

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Troubleshooting

Disable nginx sudo systemctl stop nginx

Run the mwa2 service directly with NOTE this is on port 80

/usr/local/mwa2_env/bin/python /usr/local/mwa2_env/mwa2/manage.py runwsgiserver port=80 host=0.0.0.0

Hello,
I think it is better to specify port 8080 directly instead of 80.
If we followed the tutorial "https://clburlison.com/munkirepo-guide-part-1/" port 80 is already used in "/etc/nginx /sites-enabled / default"
Thank you for your work !

server {
  listen 80; # Might need an alternative port like 8080 if no DNS access
  server_name admin.example.com; # Change this

  location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }