Frappe Production Setup in AWS

Update and Upgrade Packages

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Create a new user – (bench user)

sudo adduser frappe
sudo usermod -aG sudo frappe
sudo su frappe
cd /home/frappe

Install Required Packages

Install GIT

sudo apt-get install git

Install Python

sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3.10-dev python3-setuptools python3-pip python3-distutils

Install Python Virtual Environment

sudo apt-get install python3.10-venv

Install Software Properties Common

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Install MariaDB

sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client

Install Redis Server

sudo apt-get install redis-server

Install other packages

sudo apt-get install xvfb libfontconfig wkhtmltopdf
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

Configure MYSQL Server

sudo mysql_secure_installation

When you run this command, the server will show the following prompts. Please follow the steps as shown below to complete the setup correctly.

1. Enter current password for root: (Enter your SSH root user password)
2. Switch to unix_socket authentication [Y/n]: Y
3. Change the root password? [Y/n]: Y
   

  It will ask you to set new MySQL root password at this step. This can be different from the SSH root user password.

1. Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
2. Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: N
   
3. Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]: Y
4. Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]: Y

Edit MYSQL default config file

sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Add the following block of code exactly as is:

[mysqld]
character-set-client-handshake = FALSE
character-set-server = utf8mb4
collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci

[mysql]
default-character-set = utf8mb4

Restart the MYSQL Server

sudo service mysql restart

Install CURL

sudo apt install curl

Install Node

# 1. Install NVM
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash

# 2. Load NVM (for current shell session)
source ~/.bashrc    # or source ~/.profile, depending on your shell

# 3. Install Node.js 18
nvm install 18

# 4. Set default Node version (so it loads automatically)
nvm use v18.20.8
nvm alias default v18.20.8

# 5. Verify
node -v
npm -v

Install NPM

sudo apt-get install npm

Install Yarn

sudo npm install -g yarn

Install Frappe Bench

sudo pip3 install frappe-bench

Initialize Frappe Bench

bench init --frappe-branch version-15 frappe-bench

Switch directories into the Frappe Bench directory

cd frappe-bench

Change user directory permissions

chmod -R o+rx /home/frappe

Create a New Site

bench new-site [site-name]

Setting ERPNext for Production

Enable Scheduler

bench --site [site-name] enable-scheduler

Disable maintenance mode

bench --site [site-name] set-maintenance-mode off

Setup production config

sudo bench setup production frappe

Setup NGINX to apply the changes

bench setup nginx

Restart Supervisor and Launch Production Mode

sudo supervisorctl restart all
sudo bench setup production frappe