Web interface for ExtensiveAutomation

Introduction

The web interface enable to interact with the ExtensiveAutomation throught the REST API. The purpose of this new interface is to replace the qt application.

Installing from source

1. Clone this repository on your linux server

    git clone https://github.com/ExtensiveAutomation/extensiveautomation-webclient.git
   

2. As precondition, install the npm and nodejs command then run the following command:

    cd extensiveautomation-webclient/
    npm install 
   

3. Finnaly, start the web interface in development mode

    npm run serve
   

Installing from docker hub

1. Downloading the image

    docker pull extensiveautomation/extensiveautomation-webclient:latest
   

2. Start the container

    docker run -dit --name extensive-webclient -p 8080:80 extensiveautomation/extensiveautomation-webclient
   

3. You can now load the web interface from url http://<ip_server>:8080/

4. If you can connect the extensive server, you need provide the following parameter in the login page:

    Api URL = http://<ip_server_extensive>:8081
    Api Path = /
    Api Login = admin
    Api Password = password
   

Build from code source

1. Execute the following command to build the source

    npm run build
   

2. The output dist can deployed on a web server. A configuration for apache if provided in source apache\extensiveautomation_web.conf.

    Listen 443
    
    <VirtualHost *:443>
   
      SSLEngine on
   
      SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt
      SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key
   
      LogLevel warn
      ErrorLog  /var/log/extensiveautomation_web_error_ssl_rp.log
      CustomLog /var/log/extensiveautomation_web_access_ssl_rp.log combined
   
      DocumentRoot /var/www/extensiveautomation
      
      <Directory "/var/www/extensiveautomation">
        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
          RewriteEngine On
          RewriteBase /
          RewriteRule ^index\.html$ - [L]
          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
          RewriteRule . /index.html [L]
        </IfModule>
       </Directory>
   
    </VirtualHost>
   

   The web interface is running on tcp port 443 with tls mode.

Build docker image

1. Prepare a production version with npm command

    npm run build
   

2. Build the docker image with the following command.

    docker build -t extensiveautomation-webclient .
   

Author

It was created by Denis MACHARD