usability-test-recording

Remote and on-premises usability testing and recording of test.

Overview of possible setup

Server setup

Create a Digital Ocean server

Debian 11
Minimal size

Add user

Loog in as root and add the CouchDB-user and give it sudo rights.

adduser couchpotato
usermod -a -G sudo couchpotato

Enabling package repository for CouchDB

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y curl apt-transport-https gnupg
curl https://couchdb.apache.org/repo/keys.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/couchdb-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null 2>&1
source /etc/os-release
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/couchdb-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apache.jfrog.io/artifactory/couchdb-deb/ ${VERSION_CODENAME} main" \
    | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/couchdb.list >/dev/null

Get a Debian server on Digital Ocean and install CouchDB, nginx, snapd and certbot:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install -y couchdb
sudo apt install nginx
sudo apt install snapd
sudo snap install --classic certbot
sudo ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot
sudo snap set certbot trust-plugin-with-root=ok

Certbot name.com plugin

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 3B432D3AA229EF90
echo "deb [ arch=amd64 ] https://packages.kaelshipman.me/public/deb jammy main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kaelshipman.me.list >/dev/null
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install certbot-dns-namecom

Certificate setup

Go to https://www.name.com/resellersolutions, click Start with an API Token, add a token name and click generate. Copy the token. SSH to the server and type sudo apt install certbot-dns-namecom. Paste the token when asked for. Also on the name.com webpage, whitelist the IP-address of the webserver. Turn name.com API access on.

setting up nginx

sudo mv /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default.backup
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Add to default:

ssl on;
ssl_certificate PATH_TO_YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY.pem;
ssl_certificate_key PATH_TO_YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY.key;
ssl_protocols SSLv3;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:1m;

location / {
    proxy_pass http://localhost:5984;
    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_buffering off;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on;
}

Or setup CouchDB with ssl directly

https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/config/http.html#https-ssl-tls-options

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