• Canvas configurations:
  • Installed from upstream git repo in /var/www/canvas providing an easy upgrade path.Security note: Updates to Canvas may require supervision so they ARE NOT configured to install automatically. See Canvas documentation for upgrade instructions.
  • Installed Redis Server from Stretch repos.
  • Pre-configured to use PostgreSQL (recommended for production).
  • Includes Canvas automated jobs daemon initscript.
  • Includes Apache pre-configured with Passenger support, with SSL support out of the box (performance, security).
  • Includes NodeJS and NPM required for compiling assets.
• SSL support out of the box.
• Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery).
• Webmin modules for configuring Apache2, PostgreSQL and Postfix.

• Canvas: default username is email set at first boot

No default passwords: For security reasons there are no default passwords. All passwords are set at system initialization time.

Ignore SSL browser warning: browsers don’t like self-signed SSL certificates, but this is the only kind that can be generated automatically. If you have a domain configured, then via Confconsole Advanced menu, you can generate free Let’s Encypt SSL/TLS certificates.

Web – point your browser at either:

1. http://12.34.56.789/ – not encrypted so no browser warning
2. https://12.34.56.789/ – encrypted with self-signed SSL certificate

Note: some appliances auto direct http to https.

Username for OS system administration:

Login as root

1. Point your browser to:
   • https://12.34.56.789:12321/ – System control panel
   • https://12.34.56.789:12320/ – Web based command line terminal
2. Login with SSH client:

   ssh [email protected]
   

* Replace 12.34.56.789 with a valid IP or hostname.