The Doctor's to-do list

Stuff will be stricken out as I finish it. If anyone wants to jump in and help me with this, by all means do so, just put your initials at the end so I know who did what.

In no particular order, this is the stuff I want to accomplish:

• Official Slackware g package
  • Default webroot is /srv/httpd/htdocs.
  • Will need to rework module to clear out /var/www. We won't need that stuff.
  • Custom config files are a given. I guess this pushes us back to using separate config files for each app.
  • Comment out authn*, authz*, dumpio_module, ldap_module, usertrack_module, proxy*, dav_module, status_module, cgi_module, status_module, cgi_module, dav_fs_module, vhost_alias_module, imagemap_module, userdir_module in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.
  • Uncomment ssl_module.
  • Disable logging when everything is working.
  • /srv/httpd and /srv/www are symlinks to /var/www. Oh, well.
  • Look into setting up mod_chroot. There is an package on slackbuilds.org that could be built and converted.
  • Look into setting up mod_evasive. It's an anti-DoS, anti-bruteforce module.

• Official Slackware PHP package.
  • php.ini - need to turn log_errors, ignore_repeated_errors off.
  • Look through the list of extensions in php.ini and turn all of the unnecessary ones off.
    • calendar, ldap.

• Set Porteus up to set its hostname to the IPv6 address of the primary wireless interface of the node.

• Write a PHP app that
  • displays a "Hello, User!" message
  • displays links to apps hosted on the node which happen to be active
  • removes links to apps hosted on the node that are deactivated
    • I don't know PHP... can we find someone who does? Brad?
    • Would have to reference the SQLite database which keeps track of the active and inactive web apps and modifies the output accordingly
  • has to be mobile-friendly

• Install etherpad-lite on my development instance
  • requires node.js, for which there exists a Slackpack
    • build a Slackpack of node.js, convert into Porteus package, check everything into SVN
  • write an initscript that can start up Etherpad-lite when called by the control panel
  • will have to be controlled by the control panel, store its configuration in a database
  • write a sub-config file for Apache that passes through the /pad URL to localhost:9001
  • requires NPM
    • that will need to be packaged and checked in separately, I think.
    • run it in verbose mode to keep an eye on it
    • if it installs more stuff, we should bundle the whole mess into the NPM Porteus package
  • really should run as an unprivileged user
  • pay attention to the reverse-proxy howto
  • have to start it by hand a few times to figure out how to automate and package it

• install status.net on my development instance
  • requires PHP, MySQL
  • PHP must have support for Curl, XMLwriter, MySQL, GD, mbstring, gettext (all required for status.net), SQLite (to read configuration databases)
  • will need to pre-configure it for security and usability
  • Need to hack the mnml theme to be more mobile friendly.
  • Delete the unneeded themes and add-ons to save space, reduce potential attack surface.
  • Add-ons are not enabled by default. To turn one on you have to manually edit config.php and add lines for each one. This is moderately safe. Consider making config.php read-only with instructions for editing it later?
  • will need to write a sub-config file for Apache
  • configure for longer messages - 560 characters?
  • configure to make it easy to set up accounts on a node - no e-mail verification
  • enable image upload and display
  • There is a subtle problem: the hostname of the node ($config['site']['server'] = 'name of node here';) must be set correctly in config.php for themes to display properly. However, this requires that the clients have working DNS, which means three things:
    • DNS (dnsmasq) must be functional on the node.
    • Clients must have hostnames configured by the node.
    • Clients must have DNS configured as the node it got its information from so that hostnames can be resolved properly.

• Write a web app that (de-)configures gateway mode for babeld. I think it's a matter of pushing a route to 0.0.0.0 or not, have to read up on it.

• Installed the pre-converted MySQL Porteus package from the distro-download archive.
  • Need to pre-configure MySQL for small-ish systems
  • Need to pre-harden MySQL
  • Change the default password to something else.
  • Need to pre-create accounts, databases for all web apps and give them strong passwords. They need to be ready to go when they're started up.

• Harden /etc/sysctl.conf!

• In /network/wireless, do some kind of "please wait, this could take a while" popup.