Dash Annotations Server
Follow these instructions if you want to set up your own annotation server for Dash.
Installation
- Install Lumen
- Add a MySQL database called "annotations"
- Clone this repo over your Lumen install
- Rename the
.env.example
file to.env
and edit it - Run
composer install
- Install Python and Pygments (used for syntax highlighting)
- Make sure
/bin/pygmentize
exists. If it doesn't, add a link between/bin/pygmentize
to wherever you installed Pygments
- Make sure
- Run
php artisan migrate
and typeY
to confirm you want to do it in production - Open
http://{your_server}/users/logout
in your browser and check if you get a JSON response that says you're not logged in - Let Dash know about your server by running this command in Terminal:
# Repeat on every Mac that will connect to your server:
defaults write com.kapeli.dashdoc AnnotationsCustomServer "http(s)://{your_server}"
# To go back to the default server:
defaults delete com.kapeli.dashdoc AnnotationsCustomServer
- If you encounter any issues, let me know!
Docker
- Clone this repo
- Build the image:
docker-compose build
- Generate your GitHub Token and add it to
docker-compose.yml
- Set your
APP_KEY
indocker-compose.yml
- Start the service:
docker-compose up -d
- Add
ProxyNginx.conf
to your nginx sites and edit yourserver_name
- Open
http://dash.{your_server}/users/logout
in your browser and check if you get a JSON response that says you're not logged in - Let Dash know about your server by running this command in Terminal:
# Repeat on every Mac that will connect to your server:
defaults write com.kapeli.dashdoc AnnotationsCustomServer "http(s)://dash.{your_server}"
# To go back to the default server:
defaults delete com.kapeli.dashdoc AnnotationsCustomServer
- If you encounter any issues, let me know!
Dokku
-
Clone this repo
-
Create remote for dokku:
git remote add dokku dokku@{your_server}:dash
-
Create the app:
ssh -t dokku@{your_server} create dash
-
Create the database:
ssh -t dokku@{your_server} mariadb:create dash-db
-
Link database:
ssh -t dokku@{your_server} mariadb:link dash dash-db
-
Get the database credentials:
ssh -t dokku@{your_server} mariadb:info dash dash-db
-
Create environmental variables:
ssh -t dokku@{your_server} config:set dash \ APP_ENV=production \ APP_FALLBACK_LOCAL=en \ APP_KEY=SomeRandomKey! \ APP_LOCALE=en \ CACHE_DRIVER=file \ DB_CONNECTION=mysql \ DB_DATABASE=dash-db \ DB_HOST=mariadb \ DB_PASSWORD=YourPassword \ DB_USERNAME=dash \ QUEUE_DRIVER=file \ SESSION_DRIVER=file
-
Push to dokku:
git push dokku dokku:master
-
Get your server's URL:
ssh -t dokku@{your_server} url dash
-
Open
http://dash.{your_server}/users/logout
in your browser and check if you get a JSON response that says you're not logged in -
Let Dash know about your server by running this command in Terminal:
# Repeat on every Mac that will connect to your server:
defaults write com.kapeli.dashdoc AnnotationsCustomServer "http(s)://dash.{your_server}"
# To go back to the default server:
defaults delete com.kapeli.dashdoc AnnotationsCustomServer
- If you encounter any issues, let me know!