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@@ -1,30 +1,38 @@
 # Django Setup for CentOS 7
-## install.sh
-### Variables
-when you open install.sh you'll see these variables at the top:
+## Quick Install
 ```bash
-# vars
-yumlogloc="/root/logs/yum.log"
-yumlogmsg="See logs/yum.log for more info."
-
-firelogloc="/root/logs/firewall.log"
-firelogmsg="See logs/firewall.log for more info."
-
-pylogloc="/root/logs/python.log"
-pylogmsg="See logs/python.log for more info."
-pylink="https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.0/Python-3.7.0.tar.xz"
-
-# Django Project Settings
+source vars
+./install.sh
+```
+## A more detailed explanation
+### vars
+```bash
+# django project settings
 user="centos"
-djalog="/root/logs/django.log"
-djamsg="See logs/django.log for more info."
 projectname="mysite"
 hostname="centos.duco.net"
+letsencrypt=False
 
-# if you are doing this on a personal install you will prob need this.
+# set True if CentOS minimal install
 install_epel_release=False
+
+# general install settings
+logdir="/var/log/djangosetup/"
+yumlogloc=$logdir"yum.log"
+yumlogmsg="See $yumlogloc for more info."
+firelogloc=$logdir"firewall.log"
+firelogmsg="See $firelogloc for more info."
+pylogloc=$logdir"python.log"
+pylogmsg="See $pylogloc for more info."
+djalogloc=$logdir"django.log"
+djamsg="See $djalogloc for more info."
+gunicornlogloc=$logdir"gunicorn.log"
+nginxlogloc=$logdir"nginx.log"
+
+# python settings
+pylink="https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.0/Python-3.7.0.tar.xz"
 ```
-These can (and should) be changed to match your configuration needs. For example: any of the "logloc" log location variables can be changed to log somewhere else. The "logmsg" log message variables can be changed to reflect different log locations or output a custom message.
+These variables can (and should) be changed to match your configuration needs. For example: any of the "logloc" log location variables can be changed to log somewhere else. The "logmsg" log message variables can be changed to reflect different log locations or output a custom message.
 
 The Django Project Settings variables should be changed to match your configuration. You have (essentially) 3 options for user configuration:
 1. user = "[primary (sudo) user here]"
@@ -35,63 +43,110 @@ My recommendation is to use nginx as the user. The installer takes care of creat
 
 The projectname variable can be whatever you want. When django starts the project it will use this name.
 
-The hostname will be inserted into "ALLOWED_HOSTS" in your app settings. Multiple hosts are not supported at the moment so set this to the address you'll test with. You can add additional hosts by manually editing settings.py.
-
-### Dependencies
-In order for this script to work its magic you'll need a few packages provided by Yum. This part is likely to break due to Yum's inconsistency accross distributions, firewall and proxy configurations, and whether CentOS had its morning coffee. There are a few measures you can take to prevent this. One of those is understanding exactly what this script does.
+The hostname will be inserted into "ALLOWED_HOSTS" in your app settings. Multiple hosts are not supported at the moment so set this to the address you'll test with. You can add additional hosts by manually editing ```settings.py```.
 
 ```install_epel_release=True```
 
-If you are installing this on a system with the minimal CentOS build you'll need install_epel_release to be True. Epel_release includes, among other things, nginx. Kinda hard to run the site without that.
+If you are installing this on a system with the minimal CentOS build you'll need install_epel_release to be True. ```epel_release``` installs nginx. Kinda hard to run the site without that.
+
+## install.sh
+### Dependencies
+In order for this script to work its magic you'll need a few packages provided by Yum. This part is likely to break due to Yum's inconsistency accross distributions, firewall and proxy configurations, and whether CentOS had its morning coffee.
 
 ```bash
 # check if root
 if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
-   echo "This script must be run as root" 
+   echo -e "This script must be run as root" 
    exit 1
 fi
 cd /root/
 
-echo "Installing dependencies..."
+tput setaf 2
+echo -e "Installing dependencies"
+tput setaf 0
 # create necessary dirs
-if [ ! -d "/root/scripts" ] ; then
-	mkdir scripts
-fi 
-if [ ! -d "/root/logs" ] ; then
-	mkdir logs
+if [ ! -d $logdir ] ; then
+	mkdir $logdir
 fi
 if [ $install_epel_release = True ] ; then
-    yum -y install epel-release
+    yum -y install epel-release 1>> $yumlogloc 2>> $yumlogloc 3>> $pylogloc
 fi
 ```
 
 The first part of the script is fairly straight forward. If you aren't root, the installer can't use yum and won't work. It then creates the necessary directories to prevent future complaints and installs the aforementioned epel-release package if you want it.
 
 ```bash
-yum -y install gcc wget nginx libsqlite3x-devel.x86_64 postgresql-server postgresql-devel postgresql-contrib bzip2-devel zlib-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel policycoreutils-python.x86_64 >> $yumlogloc
-firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp --permanent >> logs/firewall.log
-firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=443/tcp --permanent >> logs/firewall.log
-firewall-cmd --reload >> logs/firewall.log
-semanage permissive -a httpd_t >> logs/firewall.log
+# install dependencies
+echo -e "\tInstalling gcc"
+yum -y install gcc 1>> $yumlogloc 2>> $yumlogloc 3>> $yumlogloc
+if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
+	echo -e "yum failed to install gcc. $yumlogmsg"
+	exit 1
+fi
 ```
 
-These are the 5 commands the script runs next (without all the error checking and logging). If there were any commands I would recommend you run manually: it's these. Definitely read through the yum install logs to make sure everything went smoothly. Like I mentioned earlier: yum doesn't like to behave. 
+The next part of the script installs yum dependencies. Each install will check if it was successful and stop everything it it wasn't.
 
-The firewall commands are specific to a CentOS 7 minimal install. You may not need them. They may not work at all. The installer doesn't really care if they fail because they aren't mission critical. It'll yell at you and that's about it.
+```bash
+# set firewall
+echo -e "firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp --permanent" > $firelogloc
+firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp --permanent >> $firelogloc
+if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
+	echo -e "firewall failed to update port 80 correctly (this may not be an issue). $firelogmsg"
+fi
+
+echo -e "firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=443/tcp --permanent" >> $firelogloc
+firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=443/tcp --permanent >> $firelogloc
+if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
+	echo -e "firewall failed to update port 443 correctly, (this may not be an issue). $firelogmsg"
+fi
+
+echo -e "firewall-cmd --reload" >> $firelogloc
+firewall-cmd --reload >> $firelogloc
+if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
+	echo -e "firewall failed to reload, (this may not be an issue). $firelogmsg"
+fi
+
+echo -e "semanage permissive -a httpd_t" >> $firelogloc
+semanage permissive -a httpd_t >> $firelogloc
+if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
+	echo -e "semanage failed to set permissive. See $firelogmsg"
+	exit 1
+fi
+```
+
+The firewall commands are specific to a CentOS 7 minimal install. You may not need them. The installer doesn't really care if they fail because they aren't mission critical. It'll yell at you and that's about it.
 
 The semanage command fixes an issue where the websocket would be inaccessible after an install causing 502 errors and loud swearing.
 
 ```bash
-wget $pylink > $pylogloc
-tar xf Python-3.7.0.tar.xz >> $pylogloc
-cd Python-3.7.0
-./configure --prefix /usr/src/python37 >> $pylogloc
-make >> $pylogloc
-make altinstall >> $pylogloc
-/usr/src/python37/bin/python3.7 -m pip install --upgrade pip >> $pylogloc
-/usr/src/python37/bin/python3.7 -m pip install virtualenv >> $pylogloc
-cd /root/
-rm Python-3.7.0.tar.xz >> $pylogloc
+wget $pylink 1> $pylogloc 2>> $pylogloc
+if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
+	echo -e "Failed to fetch python, make sure wget is installed and $pylink is what you're after. $pylogmsg"
+    exit 1
+fi
+```
+After configuring the firewall the script will fetch python from the link provided.
+
+```bash
+echo -e "\tConfigure"
+./configure --prefix /usr/src/python37 1>> $pylogloc 2>> $pylogloc
+if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
+	echo -e "./configure failed. $pylogmsg"
+    exit 1
+fi
+echo -e "\tMake"
+make 1>> $pylogloc 2>> $pylogloc
+if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
+	echo -e "make failed. $pylogmsg"
+    exit 1
+fi
+echo -e "\tMake altinstall"
+make altinstall 1>> $pylogloc 2>> $pylogloc
+if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
+	echo -e "make altinstall failed. $pylogmsg"
+    exit 1
+fi
 ```
 
 If you've ever installed Python from source this part should look familiar. Right now it grabs the latest version of Python 3.7 and installs it to /usr/src/python37/. It uses alt install to prevent conflict with previous versions of python (I've been told CentOS will break if it can't find python 2, a real problem if you use make install).
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 673950c..e795ede 100644
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -1,32 +1,3 @@
-# vars
-user="centos"
-projectname="mysite"
-hostname="centos.duco.net"
-letsencrypt=False
-pylink="https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.0/Python-3.7.0.tar.xz"
-
-# if you are doing this on a personal install you will prob need this.
-install_epel_release=False
-
-logdir="/var/log/djangosetup/"
-scriptdir="/root/scripts"
-
-yumlogloc=$logdir"yum.log"
-yumlogmsg="See $yumlogloc for more info."
-
-firelogloc=$logdir"firewall.log"
-firelogmsg="See $firelogloc for more info."
-
-pylogloc=$logdir"python.log"
-pylogmsg="See $pylogloc for more info."
-
-djalogloc=$logdir"django.log"
-djamsg="See $djalogloc for more info."
-
-gunicornlogloc=$logdir"gunicorn.log"
-
-nginxlogloc=$logdir"nginx.log"
-
 ################################################################################
 # Dependencies
 # Installs Dependencies automatically
diff --git a/vars b/vars
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9fac9ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vars
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# django project settings
+user="centos"
+projectname="mysite"
+hostname="centos.duco.net"
+letsencrypt=False
+
+# set True if CentOS minimal install
+install_epel_release=False
+
+# general install settings
+logdir="/var/log/djangosetup/"
+yumlogloc=$logdir"yum.log"
+yumlogmsg="See $yumlogloc for more info."
+firelogloc=$logdir"firewall.log"
+firelogmsg="See $firelogloc for more info."
+pylogloc=$logdir"python.log"
+pylogmsg="See $pylogloc for more info."
+djalogloc=$logdir"django.log"
+djamsg="See $djalogloc for more info."
+gunicornlogloc=$logdir"gunicorn.log"
+nginxlogloc=$logdir"nginx.log"
+
+# python settings
+pylink="https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.0/Python-3.7.0.tar.xz"
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