# Runbook: Migrate to the production server (hl-mutter-teresa-chemnitz.de) One-off procedure to provision the new production VPS (4 vCPU / 8 GB, no Forgejo), copy the staging data (DB + uploads) onto it, and cut DNS over from the old server (178.104.35.59). Shell variables used throughout (run on your dev machine): ```bash OLD=root@178.104.35.59 NEW=root@217.154.211.139 ``` --- ## Phase 0 — Prep (days before) 1. Lower the DNS TTL for `hl-mutter-teresa-chemnitz.de` and `www.hl-mutter-teresa-chemnitz.de` to 300s. 2. Set the production secrets in the vault: ```bash cd infra/ansible ansible-vault edit inventory/group_vars/all/vault.yml --vault-password-file ~/.config/chemnitz-vault-pass ``` - `vault_db_password`: new random value (e.g. `openssl rand -hex 24`) - `vault_payload_secret`: **copy the value of `vault_payload_secret_staging`**. The migrated database may contain fields encrypted with the staging secret (Payload API-key fields); a different secret would silently break them. 3. Fill the production VPS IP into `inventory/production.yml` (`ansible_host`). 4. Make sure your SSH public key is on the new VPS root account (`ssh $NEW true` works without password). ## Phase 1 — Provision + initial deploy ```bash cd infra/ansible ansible-playbook playbooks/setup.yml -i inventory/production.yml --vault-password-file ~/.config/chemnitz-vault-pass ``` - The **first run fails at "Clone or update repository"**: the server's freshly generated SSH key isn't known to Forgejo yet. Copy the public key printed by the "Show SSH public key" task and add it in Forgejo (git.skick.app → church-website repo → Settings → Deploy Keys, **read-only**). - Re-run the same command; it now completes clone → build → migrate → start `app-production`. Sanity checks: ```bash ssh $NEW "curl -sI http://127.0.0.1:3001 | head -1" # HTTP 200/30x ssh $NEW "docker exec postgres psql -U postgres -c 'SHOW shared_buffers;'" # 256MB ssh $NEW "swapon --show" # 4G /swapfile ``` Caddy will log ACME errors for the domain until DNS moves — expected, ignore. ## Phase 2 — Data sync (repeatable; rehearse once before cutover) ### 2a. Database ```bash # Dump staging on the old server ssh $OLD "docker exec postgres pg_dump -U postgres --no-owner --no-acl church_website_staging | gzip" > staging.sql.gz # Recreate the production DB empty ssh $NEW "docker stop app-production" ssh $NEW "docker exec postgres psql -U postgres -c \"SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pid) FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE datname = 'church_website' AND pid <> pg_backend_pid();\"" ssh $NEW "docker exec postgres psql -U postgres -c 'DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS church_website;'" ssh $NEW "docker exec postgres psql -U postgres -c 'CREATE DATABASE church_website OWNER church_website;'" ssh $NEW "docker exec postgres psql -U postgres -d church_website -c 'CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS postgis;'" # Restore (spatial_ref_sys errors are harmless — that table is owned by postgis) gunzip -c staging.sql.gz | ssh $NEW "docker exec -i postgres psql -U postgres -d church_website" ``` The drop/recreate is required even though Phase 1 already created a schema: the dump's `payload_migrations` table must be authoritative, not merged into a freshly migrated schema. Reassign ownership to the app user (same block as `copy-staging-to-test.yml`): ```bash ssh $NEW "docker exec -i postgres psql -U postgres -d church_website" <<'SQL' DO $$ DECLARE r RECORD; BEGIN FOR r IN SELECT tablename FROM pg_tables WHERE schemaname = 'public' LOOP EXECUTE 'ALTER TABLE public.' || quote_ident(r.tablename) || ' OWNER TO church_website'; END LOOP; FOR r IN SELECT sequencename FROM pg_sequences WHERE schemaname = 'public' LOOP EXECUTE 'ALTER SEQUENCE public.' || quote_ident(r.sequencename) || ' OWNER TO church_website'; END LOOP; FOR r IN SELECT typname FROM pg_type t WHERE t.typnamespace = 'public'::regnamespace AND t.typtype = 'e' AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM pg_depend d WHERE d.objid = t.oid AND d.deptype = 'e') LOOP EXECUTE 'ALTER TYPE public.' || quote_ident(r.typname) || ' OWNER TO church_website'; END LOOP; END $$; SQL ``` ### 2b. Upload volumes ```bash ssh $OLD "docker run --rm -v uploads-staging-media:/src:ro alpine tar -C /src -czf - ." \ | ssh $NEW "docker run --rm -i -v uploads-production-media:/dst alpine sh -c 'rm -rf /dst/* && tar -xzf - -C /dst'" ssh $OLD "docker run --rm -v uploads-staging-documents:/src:ro alpine tar -C /src -czf - ." \ | ssh $NEW "docker run --rm -i -v uploads-production-documents:/dst alpine sh -c 'rm -rf /dst/* && tar -xzf - -C /dst'" ``` ### 2c. Restart + verify Recreate the container rather than just starting it — Next.js caches rendered pages in the container's filesystem, and a plain `docker start` serves stale pages (e.g. a cached 404 for `/`) from before the restore: ```bash ssh $NEW "docker rm -f app-production && docker run -d --name app-production --restart unless-stopped --network church-website-net --env-file /opt/church-website/envs/production/.env -v uploads-production-media:/app/media -v uploads-production-documents:/app/documents -p 127.0.0.1:3001:3000 church-website:production" ssh $NEW "docker exec -u 0 app-production chown -R 1001:1001 /app/media /app/documents" ssh $NEW "curl -sI http://127.0.0.1:3001 | head -1" # 200 ssh $NEW "curl -sI http://127.0.0.1:3001/admin | head -1" # 200/30x ``` Optionally browse the site through an SSH tunnel before cutover: `ssh -L 3001:127.0.0.1:3001 $NEW`, then open http://localhost:3001 — content, images, and admin login (staging credentials) must all work. ## Phase 3 — Cutover 1. **Content freeze**: ask the editors to stop editing (~30 min window). 2. Re-run all of Phase 2 (final sync). 3. Switch the DNS A records for apex + `www` to the production IP. 4. Kick Caddy so it retries ACME immediately, and watch until certs issue: ```bash ssh $NEW "systemctl restart caddy && journalctl -u caddy -f" ``` 5. Verify from outside: ```bash curl -sI https://hl-mutter-teresa-chemnitz.de | head -1 # 200 curl -sI https://www.hl-mutter-teresa-chemnitz.de | head -3 # 308 → apex ``` Spot-check pages, images, admin login, and (if feasible) a contact form email. Expected downtime ≈ DNS TTL (≤5 min) plus seconds of cert issuance. Visitors still resolving the old IP keep getting the identical just-synced content from the old server, so the window is soft. ## Phase 4 — Post-cutover 1. Stop the old server from answering/renewing the domain — the countdown config is already removed from the repo, so re-rendering its Caddyfile drops the domain: ```bash cd infra/ansible ansible-playbook playbooks/setup.yml -i inventory/test.yml --vault-password-file ~/.config/chemnitz-vault-pass ssh $OLD "rm -rf /var/www/countdown" ``` > Do **not** run this before the DNS switch — it takes the live domain off > the old server. 2. Restore the DNS TTL to its normal value. 3. Confirm the deployed build has the correct canonical URL: page source / sitemap should reference `hl-mutter-teresa-chemnitz.de`, not `skick.app`. ## Optional — minimal daily backup (recommended) On the production server, as root (`crontab -e`): ```cron 30 3 * * * mkdir -p /opt/backups && docker exec postgres pg_dump -U postgres -Fc church_website > /opt/backups/db-$(date +\%F).dump && docker run --rm -v uploads-production-media:/m:ro -v uploads-production-documents:/d:ro -v /opt/backups:/b alpine tar -czf /b/uploads-$(date +\%F).tar.gz -C / m d && find /opt/backups -mtime +7 -delete ``` Keeps 7 days of DB dumps + upload tarballs in `/opt/backups`. Off-site copies (e.g. rsync to the old server or your machine) are a possible next step. ## Ongoing: deploying to production ```bash cd infra/ansible ansible-playbook playbooks/deploy-production.yml -i inventory/production.yml --vault-password-file ~/.config/chemnitz-vault-pass ``` Production tracks the `staging` branch on git.skick.app.