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To use this server, e.g. on https://github.com/UCL-VR/vrgroupdatacollection:

1. Clone this repository to a new directory under the node account, e.g.

cd /home/node/myexperiment
git clone https://github.com/UCL-VR/http-server.git .

2. Delete package-lock.json (as npm has an issue on our version of CentOS)

rm package-lock.json

3. Run npm install to install the dependencies

npm install

4. Look up the next available port. e.g.

netstat -anoptu | grep 80

Remember the range of ports is 8000-8010.

5. Add a new process to pm2. Make sure to pass -g to enable passing gzipped files, and -c to disable caching (to make sure users always get the latest file if you upgrade your experiment). E.g.,

pm2 start bin/http-server myexperiment -- -g -c-1 -p 8006

The -- at the end is for passing process arguments.

6. Save the process list

pm2 save

7. Verify the default page can be accessed, e.g.

http://vrgroupdatacollection.cs.ucl.ac.uk:8006

Copy your Unity project into /public with, e.g. WinSCP.