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Deploying to your own laptop
If you want to deploy RAP4 to your laptop, this chapter tells you how.
This example has worked on my Macbook. If you have a different computer, you may either change the commands below to the commands of your own computer or set up a virtual Linux machine on your laptop.
Prerequisites
You need docker. Follow the instructions on
https://docs.docker.com/.You need git. Follow the instructions on
https://github.com/git-guides/install-git.You need to use a command-line, you need permission to install software on your laptop and you need to be connected to the Internet.
Start in your command-line interface (CLI, terminal on a macbook) and go to (or make) a working directory from which you want to keep Git repositories.
Obtaining the files we need
Import the required files from Github (note: you may need to log in into Github):
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git clone https://github.com/AmpersandTarski/RAPinstall
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Expect roughly this response:
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Cloning into 'RAPinstall'...
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remote: Enumerating objects: 19, done.
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remote: Counting objects: 100% (19/19), done.
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remote: Compressing objects: 100% (17/17), done.
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remote: Total 19 (delta 2), reused 14 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
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Unpacking objects: 100% (19/19), done.
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Now go to the directory from which to install RAP:
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cd RAPinstall
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You need to create a proxy network to let RAP communicate with your browser (no problem if it already exists; docker will tell you with an appropriate message)
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docker network create proxy
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When docker has made the network, it tells you something like this:
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3f9552a7506ac5f2b5d9fcb158edae82f9f64e4e3d6b093916d624d118ba342a
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Now spin up RAP4 (note: in older versions of docker use
docker-compose instead of docker compose. The difference is just a hyphen):1
docker compose up -d
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The first time you spin up RAP4, docker will spontaneously download the images it needs. That generates substantial output. At the end docker will show the containers that have been started:
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â ¿ Network rapinstall_db Created 3.9s
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â ¿ Network rapinstall_default Created 3.9s
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â ¿ Volume "rapinstall_rap4-data" Created 0.0s
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â ¿ Volume "rapinstall_db-data" Created 0.0s
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â ¿ Volume "rapinstall_letsencrypt" Created 0.0s
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â ¿ Container traefik Started 7.1s
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â ¿ Container rap4-db Started 5.2s
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â ¿ Container rapinstall_dummy-student-prototype_1 Started 5.1s
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â ¿ Container phpmyadmin Started 12.7s
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â ¿ Container rap4 Started 12.9s
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â ¿ Container enroll Started
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Now, you need to "climb into" the rap4 container to execute one command manually:
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docker exec -it rap4 bash
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You now get a prompt like
[email protected]:/usr/local/project# that indicates that you are inside the rap4 container. Once inside, you need to give the following chmod command to enable RAP to generate prototypes.1
chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock
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Finally, type exit to leave the rap4-container and return to the CLI of your laptop.
Now you are done. Just check whether everything works:
Type
localhost in the URL-field of your browser, to see if RAP4 has started. You should see this:
Note that RAP runs on the insecure
http:// instead of https://. This is not a problem if you keep your laptop safe from outsiders' trespassing. If you deploy to a server, you need a secure setup.You will find that the database is accessible on
http://phpmyadmin.localhost
The demonstration application, Enrollment, is accessible on
http://enroll.localhost
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