Deploying to Local Directory

This page explains how to Deploy your Lianja App, database and Library files to make them available to the Lianja App Center, Lianja Cloud Server or Lianja SQL Server on the same machine.

See Also

• Watch the video: Getting Started 1 - Lianja Cloud Server and Lianja Web Client

Note: the Save button in the Web App View has now been renamed Deploy.

Default Directories

Using the standard installation settings, these are the default directories:

Lianja App Builder

Windows

Files	Location
App	C:\lianja\apps
Databases	C:\lianja\data
Library	C:\lianja\library

Linux

Files	Location
App	/opt/lianja/apps
Databases	/opt/lianja/data
Library	/opt/lianja/library

Mac

Files	Location
App	/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Lianja/apps
Databases	/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Lianja/data
Library	/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Lianja/library

Lianja App Center

Windows

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

Linux

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

Mac

Files	Location
App	/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/apps
Databases	/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/data
Library	/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/library

Lianja Cloud Server

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	/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/wwwroot/apps Note: /usr/local/lianja/cloudserver is a symbolic link to /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Lianja/cloudserver
Databases	/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/data Note: /usr/local/lianja/cloudserver is a symbolic link to /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Lianja/cloudserver
Library	/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/wwwroot/library Note: /usr/local/lianja/cloudserver is a symbolic link to /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Lianja/cloudserver

Lianja SQL Server

Windows

Files	Location
Databases	C:\lianja\cloudserver\tenants\public\data

Linux

Files	Location
Databases	/opt/lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/data

Mac

Files	Location
Databases	/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Lianja/cloudserver/tenants/public/data Note: /usr/local/lianja/cloudserver is a symbolic link to /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Lianja/cloudserver

Deploying Lianja Web/Mobile Client Apps

For Web, Tablet and Phone Apps, open the App in the appropriate App View in the Lianja App Builder and click the Deploy button to generate the HTML5 index file for each of your target devices.

Web Apps

Web App View

With the App open in the App Builder, click on Web App View.

Web App View: Deploy

Then click Deploy to create index.html.

You can click Preview to preview your App live in your default browser.

Tablet Apps

Tablet App View

With the App open in the App Builder, click on Tablet App View.

Tablet App View: Deploy

Then click Deploy to create tablet_index.html.

Clicking Preview allows you to run your App live in your default browser.

Phone Apps

Phone App View

With the App open in the App Builder, click on Phone App View.

Phone App View: Deploy

Then click Deploy to create phone_index.html.

Clicking Preview allows you to run your App live in your default browser.

See the Getting Started 1 - Lianja Cloud Server and Lianja Web Client video (link above) for more on the 'Web App View'.

Deploy Workspace

Using the Deploy Workspace, you can compare the files in the Lianja App Builder directories with those in the Lianja App Center / Lianja Cloud/SQL Server directories and copy any missing or modified files.

Preview Changes

Simply click the checkbox next to the file group or individual filename in the Deployment files explorer for the files you want to deploy. You can then preview the changes that will be made by clicking the Preview changes button in the Headerbar. These are displayed in the Deployment Files Preview window. Here I'm deploying a new database created in the Lianja App Builder. After deployment it will be available to Lianja Cloud and SQL Servers and the Lianja App Center. You can deploy databases, Apps and Library files in a single operation - just select the files in the explorer.

Note that if you are deploying an App, it needs to be Published or it will not be visible in the Lianja App Center. Publish the App by checking the Published attribute in Settings.

Commit Changes

Once you are happy with the selection of files to deploy, click the Commit changes button in the Headerbar and confirm the operation when prompted.

Finished

The copy operation is carried out and the Deployment Transfer Log window logs the changes. On successful completion, your deployed data, Apps and Library scripts will be available to the Lianja App Center and Lianja Cloud and SQL Servers.

Lianja SQL Server: ODBC DSN

Recipes DSN

Now that deployment has completed successfully and the recipes database is available to Lianja SQL Server on my machine, I can create a DSN. For more information on creating DSNs, please see the Lianja ODBC Manager on Windows and Lianja ODBC Driver on Windows or Lianja Server Manager on Linux and Lianja ODBC Driver on Linux.

Access DSN

Then access the DSN.