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FEATURE REQUEST: clearly define setting apikey on server and client #34

Closed bcurran3 closed 6 years ago

bcurran3 commented 6 years ago

Related to https://github.com/chocolatey/simple-server/issues/25, but didn't achieve (my) desired result.

I think the way information about the apikey setup still leads to a lot of confusion. It needs to be better defined between configuring the server versus the client.

On the local display page for CSS (admin):

Change:

Please set that using the setapikey command above, substituting that value for '{apikey}'.

To: "You can change the apikey for this Simple Chocolatey Package Repository by searching for and editing "add key="apiKey" value=" in Web.config found in the chocolatey.server installation folder."

Change (repository urls):

You can set the ApiKey for this repository with

to "You can set your choco client to use the ApiKey for this for this Simple Chocolatey Package Repository by issuing the following command:"

SIDENOTE:

I think it's more logical to display

You can set the ApiKey for this repository with (or my suggest new terminology above) choco setapikey --source="http://myserver/chocolatey" --api-key={apikey}

before

Use the command below to push packages to this feed using the Chocolatey command line tool (choco.exe). choco.exe push [{package file}] --source http://myserver/chocolatey [--api-key={apikey}]

as doing the (my suggested) first negates the need to specify the apikey in the (my suggested) second example

In case you didn't notice, I'm (unofficial QA team here) all about keeping relevant information related to the location of usefulness instead of having to search for documentation. It makes a big difference in the time taken to accomplish installation tasks when FAQ type information is readily present and documentation doesn't need to be referenced. :)

ferventcoder commented 6 years ago

I think you probably didn't have a good upgrade.

ferventcoder commented 6 years ago

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ferventcoder commented 6 years ago

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ferventcoder commented 6 years ago

Please confirm this is what you are now seeing? Right now I'm not getting a warm and fuzzy that you are.

bcurran3 commented 6 years ago

I'm not seeing that. Upgrade gave errors and evidently failed. I have a mention of this in https://github.com/chocolatey/simple-server/issues/33

Let me know what you want to know.

ferventcoder commented 6 years ago

I have all I need. You should probably take a look at the logs to see if there is any feedback you can provide on why it failed. Then copy over the new stuff from the chocolatey lib folder. Also check that web.config as well.

bcurran3 commented 6 years ago

Under further investigation I've determined this is a self inflicted wound. I didn't move the new files from the default installation path to my actual installation path. :) Now that I've done that, I'm seeing the new information. Looks like you added a lot...I need to go read it.