rugwebsite | ||
.gitignore | ||
manage.py | ||
MANIFEST.in | ||
README.md | ||
setup.py |
RUG website template and single signon for django
Template and for creating a website in the University of Groningen style, which also helps you to get single sign-on to work.
Getting started
Dependencies
Make sure these packages are installed on the webhost serving your website.
- centos
yum install libxml2-devel libxslt-devel python34-devel xmlsec1-devel libmcrypt libmcrypt-devel xmlsec1-openssl
- ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libxmlsec1-dev python3-dev
Virtualenv
I would suggest you use a virtualenv, this is a directory which contains the python executables and all python packages, like django, python3-saml, etc.
mkdir rugwebsite && cd rugwebsite
virtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3.5 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -U gunicorn git+ssh://git@git.webhosting.rug.nl:222/p253591/rug-website.git
Settings and X509 certificate
Create a file rugwebsite/settings.py
, with settings like these:
import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
SECRET_KEY = '....'
DEBUG = True
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/'
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'bootstrap4',
'rugwebsite',
)
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
)
ROOT_URLCONF = 'urls'
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '..', 'db.sqlite3'),
}
}
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/Amsterdam'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
SAML_ROUTE = 'sso/saml/'
SAML_REDIRECT = '/'
SAML_USERS_MAP = []
SAML_PROVIDERS = []
Make sure to fill in something random for SECRET_KEY
, consult the dango documentation to make sure you're super
secure.
Then you can use django-admin to complete the settings with SAML2 metadata, inclusing a private key and x509
certificate. Run the following and append the output to rugwebsite/settings.py
PYTHONPATH=. DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings django-admin init-saml2-settings --country NL --city Groningen \
--organisation 'University of Groningen' --organisation-unit 'Research and Innovation Support' \
--common-name 'cosmo.service.rug.nl' --state Groningen \
--support-name 'Research and Innovation Support' --support-email 'ris@list.rug.nl' \
--technical-name 'Research and Innovation Support' --technical-email 'ris@list.rug.nl' \
--base-url 'https://cosmo.service.rug.nl' --entity-id 'https://www.rug.nl/cosmo'
You can change these settings if you like. Make sure to choose these correctly for your situation:
- entity-id
- common-name
- base-url, including http or https and a prefix to all paths, make sure base-url + "/sso/saml/metadata?provider=RuG" is a working url.
- support-name, support-email, technical-name, technical-email
Database and static files
Create the database
PYTHONPATH=. DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings django-admin migrate
And collect all static files (javascript, css, etc). Recall what the absolute path of rugwebsite/static is.
PYTHONPATH=. DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings django-admin collectstatic
Host the website using Gunicorn
Create a rugwebsite/wsgi.py
import os, sys
sys.path.insert(0, 'absolute-path-to/rugwebsite/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/')
sys.path.insert(0, 'absolute-path-to/rugwebsite/venv/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/')
sys.path.insert(0, 'absolute-path-to/rugwebsite/')
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "settings")
application = get_wsgi_application()
You can test-run the website with gunicorn like, but it won't host the static files (javascript, css, etc). Decide on
what port it should run, for example 8890
.
absolute-path-to/rugwebsite/venv/bin/gunicorn --bind 127.0.0.1:8890 wsgi
you can run this in a sceen
, but it might be better to create a service like, in centos you create a
/usr/lib/systemd/system/yourwebsite.service
like this
[Unit]
Description=your website gunicorn deamon description
After=network.target
[Service]
PIDFile=/run/gunicorn/yourwebsitepid
User=cosmo
Group=cosmo
RuntimeDirectory=gunicorn
WorkingDirectory=absolute-path-to/rugwebsite/
ExecStart=absolute-path-to/rugwebsite/venv/bin/gunicorn --pid /run/gunicorn/yourwebsitepid --bind 127.0.0.1:8890 wsgi
ExecReload=/bin/kill -s HUP $MAINPID
ExecStop=/bin/kill -s TERM $MAINPID
PrivateTmp=true
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
You can start your service using sudo service yourwebsite start
(or restart
, status
, stop
, ...)
nginx proxy
You can use nginx to proxy your website, and add https-support (instead of plain http), but also to server the static
files efficiently. Make sure nginx is installed and configure the website, for example by creating the
/etc/nginx/conf.d/yourwebsite.conf
file on centos:
# Make sure the port matches
upstream yourwebsiteupstream {
server 127.0.0.1:8890;
}
# Forward http to https
server {
listen 80;
server_name cosmo.service.rug.nl;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
client_max_body_size 64M;
proxy_connect_timeout 300;
proxy_send_timeout 300;
proxy_read_timeout 300;
send_timeout 300;
listen 443 ssl;
server_name cosmo.service.rug.nl;
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/conf.d/cosmo.service.rug.nl.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/conf.d/cosmo.service.rug.nl.key;
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA';
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/conf.d/dhparams.pem;
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location /static/ {
alias absolute-path-to/rugwebsite/static/;
}
location / {
proxy_pass http://yourwebsiteupstream/;
proxy_set_header Host cosmo.service.rug.nl;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
# This setting is important, it allows SAML2 to verify the provider url, whithout getting into trouble because
# the https-part is handled by nginx, and hence not seen by the django SAML2 code.
proxy_set_header X_FORWARDED_PROTO https;
}
}
Restart nginx to load the settings sudo service nginx restart
(or reload
, to only reload the settings instaed of a
full restart)