Configuring Nikita Noark 5 Core for remote web access

[Ole Aamot]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 11:24 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
> [Ole Aamot]
>> I am successfully running Nikita Noark 5 Core on a Debian server
>> (nikita) and the node.js web service accessed in the Chrome web
>> browser on a remote client machine (portable).
>
> Very glad to hear it is working for you.  Note, the node.js web service
> (on port 3000) is as far as I can tell a simple web server, and you can
> use apache or any other web server to service the files under web/ if
> you want to.

Good.

>> diff --git a/web/package.json b/web/package.json
>> index 67ec2e0..3bf976f 100644
>> --- a/web/package.json
>> +++ b/web/package.json
>> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
>>    "devDependencies": {},
>>    "scripts": {
>>      "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
>> -    "start": "node server.js"
>> +    "start": "nodejs server.js"
>>    },
>>    "author": "Alexander Alemayhu",
>>    "license": "TBD"
>
> I believe this is due to the 'node' binary name in Debian already being
> used by another package, and thus the javascript engine had to re
> renamed to nodejs on Debian.l

OK.

>> # git clone https://github.com/oleaamot/noark5-parser.git
>> # cd noark5-parser
>> # ./runparser
>>
>> Edit /etc/hosts on your Chrome web client and enter the IP-address of
>> your Debian server ("nikita"):
>>
>> # sudo vi /etc/hosts
>>
>> 192.168.1.102   nikita
>>
>> In my case 192.168.1.102 is the local network address of my Debian
>> server ("nikita").
>
> Why did you have to modify /etc/hosts?  I would expect it to work to use
> the IP address in the URL?

It was a shortcut since it is on a local network, but I could set the A record

nikita.oka.no A 192.168.1.102

in DNS as I prefer machine names instead of remembering IP addresses.

>> You should be able to login with the username 'admin' and the password
>> 'password' and navigate and view two example journals imported with
>> the noark5-parser in the web GUI.
>>
>> 2011/230 Byggsaker
>> 2012/200 Vei og trafikk
>
> Very cool to see your import working.  I look forward to testing it on
> larger data sets. :)

The duplicate bug was fixed as I ran curl_exec twice in a row, but
there is still work on the remaining Noark 5 endpoints such as

dokumentbeskrivelse
dokumentobjekt.
avskrivning
korrespondansepart

Happy hacking,
Ole Aamot