Cubite provides an easy-to-use Learning Management System that helps educators create engaging and interactive courses online for their students with one click from within a DigitalOcean account. With this application, you’ll be able to install open edx, a world-class learning management system backed by MIT and Harvard University. You can also bring modern look and feel into your platform so that all of those learners out there will have an amazing experience with the course content!
The Open edX platform provides the massively scalable learning software technology behind edX. It is also the learning platform of choice for global organizations such as Microsoft and IBM. https://open.edx.org/
Click the Deploy to DigitalOcean button to create a Droplet based on this 1-Click App. If you aren’t logged in, this link will prompt you to log in with your DigitalOcean account.
In addition to creating a Droplet from the CUBITE 1-Click App using the control panel, you can also use the DigitalOcean API. As an example, to create a 4GB CUBITE Droplet in the SFO2 region, you can use the following curl
command. You need to either save your API access token) to an environment variable or substitute it in the command below.
curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d \
'{"name":"choose_a_name","region":"sfo2","size":"s-2vcpu-4gb","image": "cubitetechnologi-cubite-20-04"}' \
"https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"
To follow along make sure you can use ssh root@your_droplet_public_ipv4
to SSH to your server. When you have active SSH session to your server follow these steps in the command line interface.
lms.yml
open /edx/etc/lms.yml
file with your favorite editor. Change following variables to domain names you just assigned to your instance
PREVIEW_LMS_BASE: preview.mysite.com
LMS_BASE: mysite.com
LMS_ROOT_URL: https://mysite.com
CMS_BASE: studio.mysite.com
CROSS_DOMAIN_CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN:
LOGIN_REDIRECT_WHITELIST:
- studio.mysite.com
studio.yml
open /edx/etc/studio.yml
file with your favorite editor. Change following variables to domain names you just assigned to your instance
PREVIEW_LMS_BASE: preview.mysite.com
LMS_BASE: mysite.com
LMS_ROOT_URL: https://mysite.com
CMS_BASE: studio.mysite.com
LMS_INTERNAL_ROOT_URL: https://mysite.com
CROSS_DOMAIN_CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN:
LOGIN_REDIRECT_WHITELIST:
- studio.mysite.com
Restart services /edx/bin/supervisorctl restart all
To add superuser to your instance, SSH to the server and run the following command
sudo -H -u edxapp bash
source /edx/app/edxapp/edxapp_env
cd /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform
python manage.py lms --settings=production createsuperuser
The prompt will ask you for username, email and password.
Installing an SSL certificate on your OpenX server is the best way to ensure security for both yourself and your students. The installation process only takes a few minutes.
We highly recommend installing an SSL certification as soon as possible, so we can make sure everyone stays safe from any potential cyber-attacks.
Each Open edX instance has at least 3 URLs. One for LMS, one for Studio, and One for Preview. Create A record in your DNS for each URL. For example
mysite.com #LMS record
studio.mysite.com #Studio record
preview.mysite.com #Preview record
open /edx/app/nginx/sites-available/lms
file with our favorite editor and add the following after server {
section
server_name mysite.com preview.mysite.com
It should look like following
server {
server_name mysite.com preview.mysite.com
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open /edx/app/nginx/sites-available/cms
file with our favorite editor and add the following after server {
section
server_name studio.mysite.com
It should look like following
server {
server_name studio.mysite.com
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Follow official instructions at https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntufocal-nginx to install letsencrypt