AMI and VDI wiki walk through

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Mobile Data Collection made easy.

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AMI and VDI wiki walk through #1327

Open myf opened 10 years ago

myf commented 10 years ago

hi @dpapathanasiou and all,

@myf and @donfizachi spent the day here in abuja walked through a large portion of the VirtualBox VDI file and the Amazon AMI in order to host own formhub instance. Here are the bugs / comments we found:

AMI

the SES user should have full email send/receive policy right in order to register
in default_settings.py, DEBUG should be turned OFF for production
our survey failed since they carry 2 pictures per entry. would suggest to add one more line in nginx.conf
- client_max_body_size 20M;
our images are uploaded successfully and visible in filesystem, but they cannot be retrieved from the api. It might be a problem of hardcoded s3 stuff?

dpapathanasiou commented 10 years ago

This is great feedback, thanks!

WRT the first three points, I'll update the docs and source code branch accordingly.

I have no idea about the last one, but I'll do some digging and see what I can find (ATM, I'm still figuring out how to test this pull request[1], which has slightly higher priority given damage from Monday).

[1] https://github.com/SEL-Columbia/formhub/pull/1326

myf commented 10 years ago

@dpapathanasiou I'm happy to do pull req tomorrow when we got some time on the docs as well :)

dpapathanasiou commented 10 years ago

Somewhat frustratingly, if you set DEBUG variable in settings to False, bringing up the homepage results in a 500 error, and there are no traces of what's wrong in any of the logs!

So I've left it as-is, for now.

I've updated the instructions to use an S3 bucket, just like formhub.org and I think that should resolve the API issue.

Let me know if this version (revision 2) is better: https://github.com/SEL-Columbia/formhub/wiki/How-To-Run-Your-Own-Formhub-Instances-on-Amazon-Web-Services