Dhanman MinIO Production + QA Setup Documentation¶

This document provides the complete setup process for running dual MinIO instances (Production + QA) on a single VPS server for Dhanman.

✅ Prerequisites¶

Ubuntu 22.04 VPS (OVH or similar)
Domain names: files.dhanman.com, qa.files.dhanman.com
Public server IP: 51.79.156.217
Ubuntu user with sudo rights

✅ Step 1: Prepare folders¶

sudo mkdir -p /opt/minio
sudo mkdir -p /opt/minio-data-prod
sudo mkdir -p /opt/minio-data-qa
sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /opt/minio-data-prod
sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /opt/minio-data-qa

✅ Step 2: Download MinIO¶

cd /opt/minio
wget https://dl.min.io/server/minio/release/linux-amd64/minio
chmod +x minio

✅ Step 3: Create MinIO systemd services¶

🎯 minio-prod.service¶

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/minio-prod.service

Content:

[Unit]
Description=MinIO Production Instance
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/opt/minio/minio server /opt/minio-data-prod --console-address ":9001"
Environment="MINIO_ROOT_USER=prodadmin"
Environment="MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=YourProdStrongPassword"
User=ubuntu
Group=ubuntu
Restart=always
LimitNOFILE=65536

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

🎯 minio-qa.service¶

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/minio-qa.service

Content:

[Unit]
Description=MinIO QA Instance
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/opt/minio/minio server /opt/minio-data-qa --console-address ":9003"
Environment="MINIO_ROOT_USER=qaadmin"
Environment="MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=YourQaStrongPassword"
User=ubuntu
Group=ubuntu
Restart=always
LimitNOFILE=65536

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

✅ Step 4: Enable and start services¶

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable minio-prod
sudo systemctl enable minio-qa
sudo systemctl start minio-prod
sudo systemctl start minio-qa

Check:

sudo systemctl status minio-prod
sudo systemctl status minio-qa

✅ Step 5: Setup DNS¶

In DNS panel:

A record → files.dhanman.com → 51.79.156.217
A record → qa.files.dhanman.com → 51.79.156.217

✅ Step 6: Install NGINX + Certbot¶

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx certbot python3-certbot-nginx -y

✅ Step 7: NGINX reverse proxy configuration¶

🎯 Production¶

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/files.dhanman.com

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name files.dhanman.com;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9001;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        client_max_body_size 100M;
    }
}

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/files.dhanman.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

🎯 QA¶

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/qa.files.dhanman.com

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name qa.files.dhanman.com;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9003;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        client_max_body_size 100M;
    }
}

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/qa.files.dhanman.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Reload NGINX:

sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx

✅ Step 8: SSL Certificates¶

sudo certbot --nginx -d files.dhanman.com -d qa.files.dhanman.com

Check auto-renewal:

sudo systemctl status certbot.timer

✅ Final Result¶

Subdomain	Port	Instance
files.dhanman.com	9001	Production MinIO
qa.files.dhanman.com	9003	QA MinIO

This completes the full MinIO dual-instance infrastructure for Dhanman.