Because Beiwe often deals with sensitive data covered under HIPAA, it's important to add an SSL certificate so that web traffic is encrypted with HTTPS.
The setup script uses AWS Certificate Manager to generate an SSL certificate. AWS Certificate Manager will check that you control the domain by sending verification emails to the email addresses in the domain's WHOIS listing.
All the settings listed here can be found either in the constants file or in the config/settings.py file, or can have an environment variable set for them.
Optional Settings if an environment variable is provided for any of these they will override the default value. More information is available in the constants and config/settings.py files in the config directory.
DEFAULT_S3_RETRIES - the number of retries on attempts to connect to AWS S3
default: 1
CONCURRENT_NETWORK_OPS - the number of concurrent network operations throughout the codebase
default: 10
FILE_PROCESS_PAGE_SIZE - the number of files pulled in for processing at a time
default: 250
ASYMMETRIC_KEY_LENGTH - length of key files used in the app
default: 2048
ITERATIONS - PBKDF2 iteration count for passwords
default: 1000
Mandatory Settings If any of these are not provided, Beiwe will not run, empty and None values are considered invalid Additional documentation can be found in config/setting.pys.
FLASK_SECRET_KEY - a unique, cryptographically secure string
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID - AWS access key for S3
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY - AWS secret key for S3
S3_BUCKET - the bucket for storing app-generated data
E500_EMAIL_ADDRESS - the source email address for 500 error alerts
OTHER_EMAIL_ADDRESS - the source email address for other error events
SYSADMIN_EMAILS - a comma separated list of email addresses for recipients of error reports. (whitespace before and after addresses will be ignored)
RDS_DB_NAME - postgress database name (the name of the database inside of postgres)
RDS_USERNAME - database username
RDS_PASSWORD - database password
RDS_HOSTNAME - database IP address or url
S3_ACCESS_CREDENTIALS_USER - the user id for s3 access for your deployment
S3_ACCESS_CREDENTIALS_KEY - the secret key for s3 access for your deployment