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
• Run php artisan migrate and type Y 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 in docker-compose.yml
• Start the service: docker-compose up -d
• Add ProxyNginx.conf to your nginx sites and edit your server_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

https://github.com/dokku-alt/dokku-alt

• 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!