Website Administration

# Website admin wiki

This wiki is a list of points and notes for creating and maintaining the websites

### Domain creation

* Domains are typically purchased through [Namecheap](https://www.namecheap.com). 

* The hosting of the website is typically done through [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/).

* After purchasing the domain make sure to set the nameservers to the digital ocean nameservers

   * ns1.digitalocean.com

   * ns2.digitalocean.com

   * ns3.digitalocean.com

### Website creation

* Spawn a droplet and associate the domain with the one purchased

* Add the networking domain name to the droplet from Namecheap

   - Under networking -> domains choose the droplet and add the A record

   - https://cloud.digitalocean.com/networking/domains

* Create the actual users (and apply root if required)

   - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-new-sudo-enabled-user-on-ubuntu

* Install docker on the droplet

   - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-on-ubuntu-22-04

   - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-compose-on-ubuntu-22-04

* Create and apps dir under the home directory

   - Apps are typically run as docker images under apps

### Applying SSH certificates

* Certificates are retrieved from LetsEncrypt

   * https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-20-04

   * https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-certbot-standalone-mode-to-retrieve-let-s-encrypt-ssl-certificates-on-ubuntu-16-04

### Secure the firewall

* https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-firewall-with-ufw-on-ubuntu