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Plugin Server Setup Guide

What is a Plugin?​

A plug-in is a piece of code that integrates with our main server to perform a specific function. In the context of our product, a plugin is nothing but a .fp bundle (i.e. Kind of app, zip).

What is a Plugin Server?​

Plugin server is a server which hosts/runs plugins. It is like our main server with a specialized purpose of running plugins. The main server will call a plugin server to execute specific plugin and get the desired output.

Plugin Server Setup​

Enabling plugin capabilities in the server is a two step process:

Step 1: Install plugin server build

Step 2: Setting up a plugin server

note
  • The plugin server can be setup in the main server or separately.
  • The ports used are:
    • Plugin Server - 5050
    • HTTP/HTTPS - 80/443

Plugin Server Configuration​

  1. Download the plugin server builds from here.

  2. Open the terminal server and go to the directory containing plugin_server_CI. First change permission with the following command.

    Syntax: sudo chmod 777 {plugin_server_file_name}

    Example: sudo chmod 777 plugin_server_CI

Plugin Server

  1. Initiate installation of the plugin server with the following command:

    sudo ./plugin_server_CI

Run Plugin installer

  1. Wait for the installation to finish. You will get the below screen.

Installation Complete

  1. Check the services of the installed Plugin using the following command:

    systemctl status ft-plugins-server

Services