Share Server

A single-file ShareJS server which uses an ElasticSearch backend.

Installation

Dependencies

• A running instance of ElasticSearch on localhost:9200.
• A NodeJS installation.

Once those are available, we can fetch our other dependencies as follows:

npm install

Running

After getting dependencies, run the following to host a browser-channel socket on the given port:

node server.js 80; # 8080 Is the default port.

Debian Service Install

This provides a systemd deamon called share-server and sets it to run on startup.

# CLone share server
git clone git@github.com:cse-bristol/share-server.git /opt/shareserver;

# install dependencies
cd /opt/shareserver;
npm install;

# Hard link the service file.
# (If you prefer you can use cp here. Symlinks don't work with systemd.)
ln /opt/shareserver/shareserver.service /etc/systemd/system/shareserver.service

systemctl enable shareserver.service
systemctl start shareserver.service