Setup a Siteleaf site with a corresponding Gmail account on DigitalOcean

Setup Siteleaf site and Gmail on DigitalOcean

I recently setup a Siteleaf site and corresponding Gmail account via DigitalOcean. It occured to me these steps may be useful to people looking to do the same.

If you've already created your Droplet, installed vsftpd and apache, skip to step 4.

DO - do this step on Digital Ocean
SL - do this step on Siteleaf
GA - do this step on Google Apps for Business
REG - do this at your domain's registrar

DO: Create a Droplet with a Debian image and SSH keys. If you haven't created ssh keys already, follow the instructions below. If you want to manage multiple id_rsa files, name your files something that corresponds to your Digital Ocean (ie. id_rsa_DIGITALOCEAN)

http://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-ssh-keys-with-digitalocean-droplets

If you are managing multiple keys, on your computer, update your ssh config to include a Host that points to your Droplet's IP address and the corresponding id_rsa file.
```
 #DIGITALOCEAN
 Host do-WEBPROJECTS
 HostName your-droplet-ip-address
 User root
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_DIGITALOCEAN
```
Login to your droplet using the following command:
```
 ssh do-WEBPROJECTS
```
DO: setup vsftpd (FTP server) https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-vsftpd-on-ubuntu-12-04
```
 sudo apt-get install vsftpd
```
Update the configuration file.
```
 sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf
```
Find the following lines and confirm these settings:
```
 anonymous_enable=NO
 local_enable=YES
 write_enable=YES
 chroot_local_user=YES
```
Restart the server.
```
 sudo service vsftpd restart
```

DO: Install apache

 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install apache2

DO: Point your domain to your Droplet by adding the DNS record from your DO control panel. You should add both yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com.

REG: Add the following nameservers at your domain's registrar.

 NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM
 NS2.DIGITALOCEAN.COM
 NS3.DIGITALOCEAN.COM

DO: Add a new user for the site.
```
 adduser username
```
DO: Install fail2ban
DO: Setup a virtual host

IMPORTANT: Create a folder for the document root without creating a public_html folder. We'll eventually use a symlink to point to the content.
```
 sudo mkdir -p /var/www/yourdomain.com/
```
Give read privileges to all users.
```
 sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/yourdomain.com/
```
DO: Jail the user to their folder in /home and only allow them to write to public_html.

We'll upload our files here:
```
 mkdir /home/username/public_html
```
Remove write privileges to user's home folder to allow vsftpd login.
```
 chmod a-w /home/username
```
We enable write privileges on a subfolder.
```
 chown username:username /home/username/public_html
```
Allow all users to read from the subfolder.
```
 sudo chmod -R 755 /home/username/public_html
```

DO: Point to our site's content from the document root via a symlink.

 ln -s /home/username/public_html /var/www/yourdomain.com/public_html

DO: Create virtual host file and enable virtual hosts.

Create a new virutal host file.

 sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default /etc/apache2/sites-available/yourdomain.conf

Open the file.

 sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/yourdomain.conf

Update the following in the host file.

 <VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerAdmin [email protected]
     ServerName www.yourdomain.com
     ServerAlias yourdomain.com
     DocumentRoot /var/www/yourdomain.com/public_html
     [...]
 </VirtualHost>

Activate the host.

 sudo a2ensite yourdomain.conf

Restart apache.

 sudo service apache2 restart

SL: Setup FTP publishing via Siteleaf.

Create a new site and go to Settings -> Hosting -> FTP

Enter the following in the FTP fields:
```
     Domain: yourdomain.com
     Host: yourdomain.com
     FTP Username: username
     Password: password
     Path: /public_html
```
Click the refresh path icon to check the FTP connection.

If you see a checkmark, click 'Save'. If you see an error, double check your FTP settings.

When you're ready to push your content, click 'Publish changes' at the top right.

Visit yourdomain.com in a web browser to view your changes.
DO: After uploading files, make all subfolders of public_html readable.
```
 find . -type d -exec chmod -R 755 {} +
```

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Setup Siteleaf site and Gmail on DigitalOcean