Deploying your Ampersand script
Deploying your Ampersand application has been automated, so you can deploy fast and deploy anywhere. Read this section for the quick "how-to's", examples, and the bigger picture behind it.
Different aspects of the Ampersand user's environment can be containerized 1. Ampersand compiler 1. Modelling environment for Ampersand user (incl. VSCode extensions) 1. Prototype environment, including:
Apache webserver with PHP
Ampersand compiler
PHP-composer
NPM (Node Package Manager)
Gulp
Multi-stage prototype build, only:
Apache webserver with PHP
Generated code
Prototype database
MariaDB with default user/password
A docker-compose file is available to deploy prototype, database and supporting tools (like phpMyAdmin)
Deploy your local environment to run Ampersand prototypes
Detailed technical instructions are at https://github.com/AmpersandTarski/RAP under the directory listing. This page provides more general and summarized information as context.
The project-template repository contains a docker-compose and Dockerfile to generate, build and run a prototype application.
Run: docker-compose up -d to deploy the following services:
Apache webserver
Serves your prototypes
Available in the browser at
http://localhost:80
phpMyAdmin dashboard
Available in the browser at
http://localhost:8080
MariaDB database
Not directly exposed on host
Install instructions for Windows
Install Docker from https://docs.docker.com/install/ and start the desktop app
Click on the green “Code” button and pull down to “Download ZIP”
Download the zip and copy the directory on your laptop
With a command line interface:
docker-compose up –d
you may need to enter “docker network create proxy” and repeat “docker-compose up –d”. The second time is a lot faster
Go to the Docker desktop app
Find rap-master or the name you gave this docker app
Click the play button (the triangle)
Go to “localhost” on your browser and RAP should be running there as it does on the course server
If that doesn’t work then to back to docker and stop and restart rap4 but enter “2020” as the port and go on the browser to “localhost:2020”
RAP's GitHub site has more technical install instructions at https://github.com/AmpersandTarski/RAP/blob/master/README.md
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