public-health-ch/README.md

Public Health Schweiz
=====================

Website of the [Swiss Society for Public Health](http://public-health.ch), developed by [datalets,ch](http://datalets.ch) using the open source, [Django](https://www.djangoproject.com/)-based [Wagtail CMS](http://wagtail.io). The frontend is implemented by [moving water](http://www.movingwater.ch/) using [Bootstrap](https://getbootstrap.com) framework.

This project is open source under the [MIT License](LICENSE.md).

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## Development environment

The easiest way to set up your machine would be to use [Vagrant](https://vagrantup.com), then in the project folder in the terminal type: `vagrant up`. Then when it is ready, follow instructions for *publichealth/static/org/archive-message.html#Database setup*.

To set up a full development environment, follow all these instructions.

**Frontend setup**

Make sure a recent version of node.js (we recommend using [nave.sh](https://gipublichealth/static/org/archive-message.htmlthub.com/isaacs/nave)), then:

```
npm install -g yarn grunt-cli
yarn install
```

The first command (`..install -g..`) may require `sudo` if you installed node.js as a system package. Afterwards, to compile the frontend, you should be able to run:

`grunt`

If you are only working on the frontend, you can start a local webserver and work on frontend assets without the backend setup described below. There is a `grunt browser-sync` setup for working with frontend assets.

(In a Vagrant shell, use the alias `watch`)

**Backend setup**

If not using Vagrant: after installing Python 3, from the project folder, deploy system packages and create a virtual environment as detailed (for Ubuntu users) below:

```
sudo apt-get install python3-venv python3-dev libjpeg-dev

pyvenv env
. env/bin/activate

pip install -U pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

At this point your backup is ready to be deployed.

## Database setup

Once your installation is ready, you can get a blank database set up and add a user to login with.

If you are using Vagrant, enter the shell of your virtual machine now with `vagrant ssh`

Run these commands:

```
./manage.py migrate
./manage.py createsuperuser
```

You will be asked a few questions to create an administrator account.

**Starting up**

If you have one installed, also start your local redis server (`service redis start`).

After completing setup, you can use:

```
./manage.py runserver
```

(In a Vagrant shell, just use `djrun`)

Now access the admin panel with the user account you created earlier: http://localhost:8000/admin/

## Troubleshooting

- Issues with migrating database tables in SQLite during development? Try `./manage.py migrate --fake`

## Production notes

We use [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com) and [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/overview/) for automated deployment.

To use Docker Compose to manually deploy the site, copy `ansible/roles/web/templates/docker-compose.j2` to `/docker-compose.yml` and fill in all `{{ variables }}`. This can also be done automatically in Ansible.

Install or update the following roles from [Ansible Galaxy](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/galaxy.html) to use our scripts:

```
ansible-galaxy install \
   dev-sec.nginx-hardening dev-sec.ssh-hardening dev-sec.os-hardening \
   geerlingguy.nodejs geerlingguy.certbot
```

To check that the scripts and roles are correctly installed, use this command to do a "dry run":

```
ansible-playbook -s ansible/*.yaml -i ansible/inventories/production --syntax-check --list-tasks
```

To do production deployments, you need to obtain SSH and vault keys from your system administrator (who has followed the Ansible guide to set up a vault..), and place these in a `.keys` folder. To deploy a site:

```
ansible-playbook -s ansible/<*.yaml> -i ansible/inventories/production
```

For an update release with a specific version, use:

```
ansible-playbook -s ansible/site.yaml -i ansible/inventories/production --tags release  -e gitversion=<v*.*.*>
```

We use a StackScript to deploy to Linode, the basic system set up is to have a user in the sudoers and docker group, and a few basic system packages ready.

For example, on Ubuntu:

```
apt-get install -q -y zip git nginx python-virtualenv python-dev
```

The order of deployment is:

- docker.yaml (base system)
- node.yaml
- site.yaml
- harden.yaml
- certbot.yaml

The last line adds support for Let's Encrypt, which you can configure and enable (updating your Nginx setup) with:

```
sudo /opt/certbot/certbot-auto --nginx certonly
```

If you do **not** wish to use SSL, delete the last part of your nginx site configuration (/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/...).

### Production releases

For further deployment and system maintenance we have a `Makefile` which automates Docker Compose tasks. This should be converted to use [Ansible Container](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible-container/getting_started.html). In the meantime, start a release with Ansible, then complete it using `make`, i.e.:

```
ansible-playbook -s ansible/site.yaml -i ansible/inventories/production --tags release
ssh -i .keys/ansible.pem ansible@<server-ip> "cd <release_dir> && make release"
```

This is already part of the normal release cycle, but if you wish to update the Docker images to the latest versions separately, use:

`make upgrade`

### Restoring a data backup

For development, it's handy to have access to a copy of the production data. To delete your local database and restore from a file backup, run:

```
rm publichealth-dev.sqlite3
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py loaddata publichealth.home.json
```

You might want to `createsuperuser` again at this point.