Thread: [Pointrel-discuss] Pointrel SSD server up on the OSCOMAK site temporarily for conceptual testing
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From: Paul D. F. <pdf...@ku...> - 2008-11-14 10:46:15
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Just for completeness, I set up a place you can test the remote repository access features of the Pointrel Social Semantic Desktop. I don't know how long I'll keep this test server up at that URL (a week?); we'll see. The test web form (with passwords already filled in, such high security for now :-) can be tried at: http://www.oscomak.net/temporary_pointrel_testing/pointrelTestWebServerUsingCGI.html To access the same repositories through the desktop client, when picking "Open Remote Archive..." you need to put in this URL for the remote cgi server path: http://www.oscomak.net/temporary_pointrel_testing/cgi-bin/pointrel_archive_cgi_interface.py and for archive you need to put in one of these three names: archive foo meta You can leave the user and password as the default on the desktop system. The passwords for the other two users ("ace" and "kryten") can be found in the meta.pointrel file. (That security needs to be upgraded, of course.) The meta archive can only be accessed by the "pointrel" user id if accessed remotely (or any other "manager"). Please don't save changes to password or manager status of the default three user ids in the "meta" repository, as that would make it hard for others to try it. It's OK if you add new users or add other triples to "meta" though. You can add whatever reasonable things you want to the other two archives "foo" or "archive". Or you can make new archives as the pointrel user from the web interface form linked above. I'd appreciate a post to this pointrel-discuss list if you tried it, with any feedback. http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/pointrel-discuss I started this pointrel-discuss mailing list on SourceForge so eventually detailed discussion of the system can move here to not clutter up the openmanufacturing list. But this open manufacturing list has been nice for motivation to push this version forward. http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing As has the OpenVirgle list before that. By the way, I found a bug in the cgi code which I fixed in svn (but the fix is not in the downloaded package yet). So, if you want to run a local server (which you do *not* need to do to test the client with the oscomak server above or with local files) you would need to use the latest version of pointrel_archive_cgi_interface.py from svn here: http://pointrel.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pointrel/trunk/Pointrel20081028/web_server/cgi-bin/pointrel_archive_cgi_interface.py?view=log Plus you need to copy the pointrel20081028.py file to the same directory as the cgi script, plus move or copy cgi-archives directory there too. You need to set permissions on the archive files such that your web server can access them (which can be tricky on shared hosting, and maybe impossible to keep others on the same server from writing to the file, depending on your configuration -- although you can obscure where you put the archive directory by modifying the server script to use a directior like ".randomSomething"). Again, those things are only of importance to run your own server, not to use the client. Anyway, don't feel pressured to try it. As I said before, it's "bleeding edge" stuff. :-) And there is not much to see other than triples. This system will (at best) only begin to get interesting and useful for most people on this list when it has specific GUIs for tasks related to open manufacturing, like the one Mike sketched out and which was linked to in the previous email. --Paul Fernhout (A version of this email was previously sent to the openmanufacturing list @ googlegroups.) |
Re: [Pointrel-discuss] Pointrel SSD server up on the OSCOMAK site
temporarily for conceptual testing
From: Paul D. F. <pdf...@ku...> - 2009-02-11 19:46:50
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Just a note that I have removed this version of the Pointrel SSD test server (written in Python) just now. I'm looking at maybe doing a PHP version to work with the latest Java version. Looks like it was not tried at all. --Paul Fernhout Paul D. Fernhout wrote: > Just for completeness, I set up a place you can test the remote repository > access features of the Pointrel Social Semantic Desktop. I don't know how > long I'll keep this test server up at that URL (a week?); we'll see. > > The test web form (with passwords already filled in, such high security for > now :-) can be tried at: > > http://www.oscomak.net/temporary_pointrel_testing/pointrelTestWebServerUsingCGI.html |