SELab Android App Server

Content

• What it does
• How to start
• Configuration
  • Creating a new configuration
  • The config values explained

What it does

This is a SSL server to handle user authentication & store data in a mysql database.

How to start

Simply run node server.js
The server needs root privileges, so if you are on linux, start the server with sudo node server.js

Configuration

Creating a new configuration

Create a new file named config.js and copy the contents of the file exampleConfig.js to your newly created file.

The config values explained

• The values for config.ssl.keyLoc and config.ssl.certLoc should be absolute paths to the SSL key and the SSL certificate respectively.
• The values for config.db.host, config.db.user and config.db.pass should contain the login data for the mysql database
• config.db.dbName contains the name of a database
• config.server.port contains the port the server is listening on. This is the port you want to send your data to
• config.server.swaggerPort contains the port for the swagger documentation. This port has to be different from config.server.port!
• config.server.tokenSecret contains any string of characters to validate your jwt token
• config.server.url contains the base url of your service, which will be displayed in the swagger docs
• config.docs.user and config.docs.pass contain the credentials for the password protected swagger documentation