yfi_setup_yfi

Installing the YFi Hotspot Manager 's Viewer Component

• YFi Hotspot Manager consists of two components: A CakePHP application and a Viewer.
• This page will help you to install the Viewer.

Requirements

• Ensure you already have a working CakePHP setup. Instructions on how to complete it is on thie page: Configure CakePHP

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Instructions

• Get the latest viewer component of YFi Hotspot Manager. Get YFi Hotspot Viewer Component

• If you want to try the latest development source, follow this instructions: SVN Quick Help

• Copy and extract it inside the directory that Apache is serving its content from (/var/www by default on Ubuntu)

  sudo cp [latest version of yfi].tar.gz /var/www
  cd /var/www
  sudo tar -xzvf [latest version of yfi].tar.gz
  

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Test the Viewer component

• Go to the following URL http://127.0.0.1/yfi (you may need to replace 127.0.0.1 with the IP address of the server you installed the YFi Hotspot Manager on)

• You should get a splash page which, depending on the speed of your network connection, will change into a login page.

• Log in either as the administrator or as an Access Provider or as a permanent user.

• The following table displays the default username and password for each.

Role
Username
Password

Administrator
root
admin

Access Provider
ap
ap

Permanent User
dvdwalt@ri
dvdwalt@ri

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Troubleshooting

• Should you have difficulty with the Viewer component please use Mozilla Firefox and the Firebug plug-in to make easy troubleshooting possible.

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