Infrastructure Prerequisites
Web server and SQL server:
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Determine the DNS for each OneList environment, e.g. onelist.company.com, onelist-dev.company.com, onelist-test.company.com;
Configure reverse proxy to enable access to OneList URL's
Enable outbound firewall rules for the Web Servers to the following destinations:
Apple and Google messaging services to send mobile push notifications:
https://api.push.apple.com on port: 443;
https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send on ports: 443, 5228-5230;
https://iqx.onelistapprovals.com to retrieve the current push notification certificates;
iqxbusiness.azureacr.io to download the Docker images as required.
Installing Docker Enterprise Engine:
Provision SSL certificate:
Wildcard or site specific SSL certificate for each environment;
Key size 2048 bits;
Issued by public certificate authority;
SMTP server connection detail and dedicated or shared email address for OneList.
If the server is a VMware VM, VMware Tools must be version 11.0.6 or above.
Deployment Prerequisites
Domain user account requirements:
Local Administrator of the Web Server;
Has VPN and RDP access to the Web Server;
Define the label for the OneList environment to be deployed. This is a short label, e.g. dev, qa, prod. The first letter must be unique in all the environments planned and it is used as the suffix of the database names.
Use this value to replace the <environment> placeholder in the instructions below.
Request for login to IQX container registry;
Generate the Machine key for each environment. This is a Base64 string representing an array of 50 bytes;
Use tools like https://generate.plus/en/base64 to generate a random string of the required length.
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Create a new folder. Name it as the <environment> value. Download and save docker-compose.ymland.envfile to the folder.
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RoleManager__MachineKey
The value is the generated machine key.Database__ConnectionString
The value is the SQL Server connection string. The name of the databases will be automatically specified by the services.ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT
The value is <environment>.Smtp__UserName
Smtp__Password
Smtp__From
This is the sender email address of notifications from OneListSmtp__Host
This is the SMTP server OneList use to send notifications.Smtp__Port
This is the port of SMTP server.Smtp__UseSsl
Define if SMTP server uses SSL connection. For Office365 SMTP service, the value is always false.Localization__DefaultCulture
The default culture. Use the code from: Supported LanguagesLocalization__DefaultTimeZone
The default time zone. The time zone id is the “TZ database name” from this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
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Activate reverse proxy
Select IIS root → Open “Application Request Routing Cache”
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Select “Server Proxy Settings”
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Check the box “Enable Proxy”, uncheck "Reverse rewrite host in response headers" and click Apply
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Configure URL Rewrite rules
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