server-admin-cheat-sheet.md

Parse Server Admin Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet provides a quick reference for common tasks that you might need to perform while maintaining your Parse server.

Start Parse Server (Example)

• Start: parse-server
• Install/Update: sudo npm install -g parse-server
• Version: npm list parse-server

Parse Dashboard

• Start parse dashboard: parse-dashboard --config parse-dashboard-config.json
• Install/Update: sudo npm install -g parse-dashboard
• Version: npm list parse-dashboard

TMUX

• open tmux window: tmux attach
• detach: ctrl + b, d

Generating Master/API Keys

uuidgen

Example output: 1BF7EED7-5F8E-4A31-B9B6-5D0E8726C074

Updating Server Packages

SSH into servers and run the following commands.

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get upgrade
3. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Could also use:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Updating will likely require user interaction to verify updates should be installed. e.g.

Need to get 68.6 MB of archives. After this operation, 296 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

After running the update commands restart the server. (See Server Reboot)

Notes

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/196768/how-to-install-updates-via-command-line

Renewing Letsencrypt Certs

1. Stop Nginx - sudo service nginx stop
2. Renew cert - sudo letsencrypt renew
3. Start Nginx - sudo service nginx start

Notes

• certbot/certbot#2750 (comment)

Server Reboot

sudo reboot