A Guide to Deploying Web Apps

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See Also

Deploying to Local Directory, Understanding Live Preview in Lianja

Overview

1. Generate HTML5 code from Web App View
2. Deploy App, database and Library files

Web App View

Web App View gives you options to Deploy your App for your local Lianja Cloud Server (this generates the HTML5 index file and copies the App's files to the deployment path) and to Preview the App running in your default browser.

Deploy and Preview

Click the toolbutton in the header to access Web App View.

Click Deploy in Web App View to generate the HTML5 index file and copy the App's files to the deployment path.

For testing purposes, you can click Preview to preview your App live in your default browser.

Deploy Workspace

Deploy App, database and Library files...

Quick Deploy

Quick Deploy can be run while the App is open. Quick Deploy automatically saves and restores the environment, closing the database and tables for the deployment then reopening them when the operation is complete.

Quick Deploy uses the App Deployment Settings:

Attribute	Description
Publisher	The way to publish the Apps (Copy | SFTP | Custom).
Publisher path	The optional full path of the publisher program, e.g. /usr/bin/rsync.
Publisher arguments	The optional arguments to the publisher program, e.g. -avc for rsync.
Server	The server IP address or nodename where the App will be deployed, e.g. localhost or myserver.mydomain.com.
Directory	The root lianja directory on the LAN or server where the Apps will be deployed.
Build an installer	Build an installer for Windows desktop deployment (True | False).
Username	The optional username to authenticate with the remote server.
Password	The optional password to authenticate with the remote server.
Private key (.pem file)	The (optional) private key (.pem file) to authenticate with the remote server.

App Deployment Settings

For example, here the files will be deployed:

- using SFTP (Publisher)

- to the server on 192.168.80.133 (Server)

- to the root location /opt/lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/ (Directory)

- logging in as root (Username)

- the password is not entered here, but a prompt dialog will be displayed when deploying

Deployment Directories

Using the standard installation settings, these are the Lianja Cloud Server default directories for Web/Mobile Apps:

Windows

Files	Location
App	C:\lianja\cloudserver\tenants\public\wwwroot\apps
Databases	C:\lianja\cloudserver\tenants\public\data
Library	C:\lianja\cloudserver\tenants\public\wwwroot\library

Linux

Files	Location
App	/opt/lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/wwwroot/apps
Databases	/opt/lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/data
Library	/opt/lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/wwwroot/library

Mac

Files	Location
App	/usr/local/lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/wwwroot/apps
Databases	/usr/local/lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/data
Library	/usr/local/lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/wwwroot/library