install guide

[rubo77]

Is there a thogough install guide for a Freifunk-newbie?

I got hopglass-server running on our gateway 18 with the install guide from the README. Now I try to get data into my hopglass-server, but there is no data collected:

http://18.gw.freifunknord.de/hopglass/nodes.json

We use gluon 2016.2.5: https://github.com/freifunk-nord/nord-site

Up to now, we still use alfred, but we want to get rid of alfred.

I started an apache proxy and opened port 1001 UDP and Port 80 in our firewall.

What am I missing? How should the data get to the hopglass-server?

Can you add more info in the readme, so a new comer can successfully run hopglass with hopglass-server?

[rubo77]

I found out what was my problem : #95

But there should definitely be more explanation in the readme

[tackin]

+1
Specially also the fact, that one should please install the frontend first! This was my biggest problem.
According to https://www.freemesh.ie/wiki/index.php/Generic_Freemesh_Gateway#HopGlass_Web_presence
"The HopGlass Web presence will need to be installed first, as the hopglass-server installation will re-install another version of npm and hopglass web will not compile with that."
Grrrr .....

[rubo77]

@tackin good point, I added that in #95

Another thing, maybe we should add another readme that explains how to configure an apache or nginx web proxy for port 4000

[ghost]

A full guide for a map server setup is one of the things I have on my to-do list since a long time but I am no longer interested in doing. But I think the setup of a reverse proxy, compiling the client and so on does not belong in this repository but should rather be a seperate repo (map server setup guide) and possibly have a fancy readthedocs page.

The guide in README.md is supposed to explain a standalone installation of hopglass-server. Your point about changing the default config values should be solved by adding more documentation to the example config (now possible with hjson).

For whole map server installations I am always happy to help people out with a mumble session or questions via issue or forum (tag or PM me). The https://github.com/eulenfunk/mapconfig repository contains some template files that might be helpful.