navsection: installguide
title: Install the API server
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+{% comment %}
+Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
+{% endcomment %}
h2. Install prerequisites
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-h2(#set_up). Set up Web servers
-
-For best performance, we recommend you use Nginx as your Web server front-end, with a Passenger backend for the main API server and a Puma backend for API server Websockets. To do that:
-
-<notextile>
-<ol>
-<li><a href="https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/walkthroughs/deploy/ruby/ownserver/nginx/oss/install_passenger_main.html">Install Nginx and Phusion Passenger</a>.</li>
-
-<li><p>Install runit to supervise the Puma daemon. {% include 'install_runit' %}<notextile></p></li>
-
-<li><p>Install the script below as the run script for the Puma service, modifying it as directed by the comments.</p>
-
-<pre><code>#!/bin/bash
-
-set -e
-exec 2>&1
-
-# Uncomment the line below if you're using RVM.
-#source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh
-
-envdir="`pwd`/env"
-mkdir -p "$envdir"
-echo ws-only > "$envdir/ARVADOS_WEBSOCKETS"
+h2(#set_up). Set up Nginx and Passenger
-cd /var/www/arvados-api/current
-echo "Starting puma in `pwd`"
+The Nginx server will serve API requests using Passenger. It will also be used to proxy SSL requests to other services which are covered later in this guide.
-# Change arguments below to match your deployment, "webserver-user" and
-# "webserver-group" should be changed to the user and group of the web server
-# process. This is typically "www-data:www-data" on Debian systems by default,
-# other systems may use different defaults such the name of the web server
-# software (for example, "nginx:nginx").
-exec chpst -m 1073741824 -u webserver-user:webserver-group -e "$envdir" \
- bundle exec puma -t 0:512 -e production -b tcp://127.0.0.1:8100
-</code></pre>
-</li>
+First, "Install Nginx and Phusion Passenger":https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/walkthroughs/deploy/ruby/ownserver/nginx/oss/install_passenger_main.html.
-<li><p>Edit the http section of your Nginx configuration to run the Passenger server, and act as a front-end for both it and Puma. You might add a block like the following, adding SSL and logging parameters to taste:</p>
+Edit the http section of your Nginx configuration to run the Passenger server, and serve SSL requests. Add a block like the following, adding SSL and logging parameters to taste:
+<notextile>
<pre><code>server {
listen 127.0.0.1:8000;
server_name localhost-api;
server 127.0.0.1:8000 fail_timeout=10s;
}
-upstream websockets {
- # The address below must match the one specified in puma's -b option.
- server 127.0.0.1:8100 fail_timeout=10s;
-}
-
proxy_http_version 1.1;
# When Keep clients request a list of Keep services from the API server, the
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}
}
-
-server {
- listen <span class="userinput">[your public IP address]</span>:443 ssl;
- server_name ws.<span class="userinput">uuid_prefix.your.domain</span>;
-
- ssl on;
- ssl_certificate <span class="userinput">/YOUR/PATH/TO/cert.pem</span>;
- ssl_certificate_key <span class="userinput">/YOUR/PATH/TO/cert.key</span>;
-
- index index.html index.htm index.php;
-
- location / {
- proxy_pass http://websockets;
- proxy_redirect off;
- proxy_connect_timeout 90s;
- proxy_read_timeout 300s;
-
- proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
- proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
- proxy_set_header Host $host;
- proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
- proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
- }
-}
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-</li>
+</notextile>
-<li><p>Restart Nginx:</p>
+Restart Nginx to apply the new configuration.
+<notextile>
<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">sudo nginx -s reload</span>
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-
-</li>
-
-</ol>
</notextile>
h2. Prepare the API server deployment
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You can safely ignore the following messages if they appear while this command runs:
-<pre>Don't run Bundler as root. Bundler can ask for sudo if it is needed, and installing your bundle as root will
-break this application for all non-root users on this machine.</pre>
-<pre>fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git</pre>
+
+<notextile><pre>Don't run Bundler as root. Bundler can ask for sudo if it is needed, and installing your bundle as root will
+break this application for all non-root users on this machine.</pre></notextile>
+
+<notextile><pre>fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git</pre></notextile>
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