powerdns-admin/docs/wiki/install/Running-PowerDNS-Admin-on-Fedora-30.md

NOTE: If you are logged in as User and not root, add "sudo", or get root by sudo -i.
      Normally under centos you are anyway mostly root.

Install required packages

Install Python and requirements

dnf install python37 python3-devel python3-pip

Install Backend and Environment prerequisites

dnf install mariadb-devel mariadb-common openldap-devel xmlsec1-devel xmlsec1-openssl libtool-ltdl-devel

Install Development tools

dnf install gcc gc make

Install PIP

pip3.7 install -U pip

Install Virtual Environment

pip install -U virtualenv

Install Yarn for building NodeJS asset files:

dnf install npm
npm install yarn -g

Clone the PowerDNS-Admin repository to the installation path:

cd /opt/web/
git clone https://github.com/PowerDNS-Admin/PowerDNS-Admin.git powerdns-admin

Prepare the Virtual Environment:

cd /opt/web/powerdns-admin
virtualenv -p python3 flask

Activate the Python Environment and install libraries

. ./flask/bin/activate
pip install python-dotenv
pip install -r requirements.txt

Running PowerDNS-Admin

NOTE: The default config file is located at ./powerdnsadmin/default_config.py. If you want to load another one, please set the FLASK_CONF environment variable. E.g.

export FLASK_CONF=../configs/development.py

Then create the database schema by running:

(flask) [khanh@localhost powerdns-admin] export FLASK_APP=powerdnsadmin/__init__.py
(flask) [khanh@localhost powerdns-admin] flask db upgrade

Also, we should generate asset files:

(flask) [khanh@localhost powerdns-admin] yarn install --pure-lockfile
(flask) [khanh@localhost powerdns-admin] flask assets build

Now you can run PowerDNS-Admin by command:

(flask) [khanh@localhost powerdns-admin] ./run.py

Open your web browser and access to http://localhost:9191 to visit PowerDNS-Admin web interface. Register an user. The first user will be in Administrator role.

At the first time you login into the PDA UI, you will be redirected to setting page to configure the PDNS API information.

Note: For production environment, i recommend to run PowerDNS-Admin with WSGI over Apache instead of flask's built-in web server...
Take a look at WSGI Apache Example WIKI page to see how to configure it.