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NetBox on Amazon Linux AMI

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This is my attempt to install NetBox in an AWS EC2 instance on AWS Linux.
https://netbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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$ sudo yum install openssl-devel gcc git postgresql92 postgresql92-server libpqxx-devel python27-psycopg2 python27 python27-devel python27-pip libxml2-devel libxslt-devel libffi-devel graphviz
$ sudo mkdir /var/www/netbox
$ sudo chmod USERNAME:USERNAME /home/www/netbox
$ cd /var/www/netbox
$ git clone -b master https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox.git .

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$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=2048
$ sudo mkswap /var/swap.1
$ sudo chmod 600 /var/swap.1
$ sudo swapon /var/swap.1
$ sudo echo "/var/swap.1 swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
$ sudo pip install -r /var/www/netbox/requirements.txt

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$ sudo service postgresql92 initdb
$ sudo service postgresql92 start
$ sudo -u postgres psql
psql (9.2.15)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# CREATE DATABASE netbox;
CREATE DATABASE
postgres=# CREATE USER netbox WITH PASSWORD 'DBPASSWORD';
CREATE ROLE
postgres=# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE netbox TO netbox;
GRANT
postgres=# \q
$ sudo vim /var/lib/pgsql92/data/pg_hba.conf
 > local   all             all                                     md5
 > host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            md5
$ sudo service postgresql92 restart
$ psql -U netbox -W
Password for user netbox:
psql (9.2.15)
Type "help" for help.

netbox=> \q
$

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$ cd /var/www/netbox/netbox/netbox
$ cp configuration.example.py configuration.py
$ ../generate_secret_key.py
abcde12345abcde12345abcde12345abcde12345abcde12345
$ vim configuration.py
 > ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['127.0.0.1', '192.168.20.10', '50.40.30.20', 'netbox.domain.com']
 > DATABASE = {
 >     'NAME': 'netbox',         # Database name
 >     'USER': 'netbox',               # PostgreSQL username
 >     'PASSWORD': 'DBPASSWORD',           # PostgreSQL password
 >     'HOST': 'localhost',      # Database server
 >     'PORT': '',               # Database port (leave blank for default)
 > SECRET_KEY = 'abcde12345abcde12345abcde12345abcde12345abcde12345'
}
$ sudo su -
# pip install -U pynotify
# exit
$ cd /var/www/netbox/netbox
$./manage.py migrate

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$ ./manage.py createsuperuser
Username (leave blank to use 'admin'):
Email address: admin@domain.com
Password:
Password (again):
Superuser created successfully.

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$ ./manage.py collectstatic

You have requested to collect static files at the destination
location as specified in your settings:

    /var/www/netbox/netbox/static

This will overwrite existing files!
Are you sure you want to do this?

Type 'yes' to continue, or 'no' to cancel: yes
Copying '/var/www/netbox/netbox/project-static/css/base.css'
.
.
.
Copying '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rest_framework_swagger/static/rest_framework_swagger/images/throbber.gif'

212 static files copied to '/var/www/netbox/netbox/static'.
$ ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 --insecure
Performing system checks...

System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
July 11, 2016 - 22:09:39
Django version 1.9.7, using settings 'netbox.settings'
Starting development server at http://0.0.0.0:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
[11/Jul/2016 22:12:57] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 14741
.
.
.
[11/Jul/2016 22:12:58] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 85
^C
$

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$ sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
 > NameVirtualHost *:80
 > NameVirtualHost *:443
$ sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/netbox.conf
 > <VirtualHost *:80>
 >     ProxyPreserveHost On
 > 
 >     ServerName netbox.nerdydrunk.com
 > 
 >     Alias /static /var/www/netbox/netbox/static
 > 
 >     <Directory /var/www/netbox/netbox/static>
 >         Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
 >         AllowOverride None
 >         Require all granted
 >     </Directory>
 > 
 >     <Location /static>
 >         ProxyPass !
 >     </Location>
 > 
 >     ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8001/
 >     ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8001/
 > </VirtualHost>
$ sudo service httpd restart

8

I am currently having issues getting gunicorn and supervisord working correctly. 

$ vim /var/www/netbox/gunicorn_config.py
 > command = '/usr/bin/gunicorn'
 > pythonpath = '/var/www/netbox/netbox'
 > bind = '127.0.0.1:8001'
 > workers = 3
 > user = 'apache'
$ sudo vim /etc/supervisord.conf
 > [program:netbox]
 > command = gunicorn -c /var/www/netbox/gunicorn_config.py netbox.wsgi
 > directory = /var/netbox/netbox/netbox/
 > user = apache
$ sudo su -
# pip install supervisor
# exit
$ sudo service supervisord start