Hosting AppDesigner On Static WebServer

Connecting to a Server

UW student account

Homepage URL is found at

http://students.washington.edu/<uw_netid>/

(Substitute <uw_netid> with your UW student id)

Activating your account

• Go to http://myuw.washington.edu
• Click on "My Account" in the upper right corner
• Click on "Computing Services" on the left sidebar
• Check that "Dante Account" or "Student Web Publishing" are among the "Active Services"
• If not active, check them and click subscribe

Connect to the vergil server

• If using an FTP client (e.g. Filezilla)
  • For a tutorial on how to use Filezilla, go to https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/FileZilla_Client_Tutorial_(en)
  • Enter the following information:

    Hostname/Server: vergil.u.washington.edu
    Port:22
    Protocol: SFTP/SSH
    Username: <uw_netid>
    Password: <uw_netid password>
    Directory: <Leave blank, or if required try "public_html">

* Click connect
* In the `<uw_netid>`/ directory in the lower right panel of Filezilla, click on the public\_html folder
* Inside public\_html/ you should find a single file, index.html; the rendered index.html file should be the webpage you first see when you go to your homepage in your browser

• If using SSH in a terminal
  • Use the command:
    $ssh <uw_netid>@vergil.u.washington.edu

• Enter your password when prompted
  
• Go to the public_html directory:
  $cd public_html/

• For more information, visit http://www.washington.edu/itconnect/connect/web-publishing/shared-hosting/

CSE account

• The url of your homepage is at
  

  http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~<cse_id>/
  
  

• In the file system, the homepage is located at
  

  /cse/web/homes/<cse_id>
  
  

• If you wish to have a simple index page, create a .htaccess file in the top level directory
  
• In .htaccess, add the line:
  Options +Indexes
• For more information, visit http://homes.cs.washington.edu/FAQ.html
  

Making Changes to Files

The instructions in this section apply only to the server copy of opendatakit.survey-js/
You should not make these changes to your local copy

opendatakit.survey-js\app\framework\survey\js\shim.js

• In shim.js, line 40, search for the function getPlatformInfo
• Look for the key-value pair in the return statement:
  

  "baseUri":"http://localhost:8000/app/"
  
  

• For UW accounts, change it to
  

  "baseUri":"http://students.washington.edu/<uw_netid>/ODK/opendatakit.survey-js/app/"
  
  

• For CSE accounts, change it to
  

  "baseUri":"http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~<cse_netid>/ODK/opendatakit.survey-js/app/"
  
  

opendatakit.survey-js\app\framework\tables\js\control.js

• In control.js, line 92, search for the function getPlatformInfo
• Look for the key-value pair in var platformInfo:
  

  baseUri:'http://localhost:8000/app/'
  
  

• For UW accounts, change it to
  

  baseUri:'http://students.washington.edu/<uw_netid>/ODK/opendatakit.survey-js/app/'
  
  

• For CSE accounts, change it to
  

  baseUri:'http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~<cse_netid>/ODK/opendatakit.survey-js/app/'
  
  

  
  

  After connecting to the server

• Create a new directory in your server called ODK/
  
  • For UW accounts, it should be created inside the public_html directory
    
  • For CSE accounts, in /cse/web/homes/<cse_id>/
• The entire opendatakit.survey-js/ folder will be placed in this newly made ODK/ directory

If pulling from the repository

• After ssh into the server, go to the ODK/ directory:
  $cd ODK
• Pull from github:
  https://github.com/opendatakit/appdesigner
• Update to the development tip

If uploading files using Filezilla

• Drag and drop the entire opendatakit.survey-js/ folder to the ODK/ directory in the server
  Make sure that you copy over the edited files

If uploading files using the terminal

• Log out of your server by typing Control+D (Control and d at the same time)
  
• Go to the local directory where opendatakit.survey-js/ is located, using the cd command
  
• Copy over the opendatakit.survey-js/ directory:
  
  • For UW accounts:
    $scp -r opendatakit.survey-js <uw net_id>@vergil.u.washington.edu:public_html/ODK
  • For CSE accounts:
    $scp -r opendatakit.survey-js <cse_id>@attu.cs.washington.edu:/cse/web/homes/<cse_id>/ODK
• Make sure that you copy over the edited files

See ODK in Chrome

• For UW accounts:
  

  http://students.washington.edu/<uw_netid>/ODK/opendatakit.survey-js/
  
  

• For CSE accounts:
  

  http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~<cse_id>/ODK/opendatakit.survey-js/