Serving Connect Locally

You may want to host your own IBM Aspera Connect SDK for your applications rather than having the downloads served from Aspera's CloudFront CDN. This also enables you to make users download the Connect plug-in from a server of your choice.
Note: If you choose to locally serve connect, you must manually update your Connect plug-in version to support the latest Faspex features. Different versions of Faspex require a different minimum version of the Connect plug-in. You can check the minimum Connect plug-in version of your Faspex by going to Server > Transfer Options and looking under Aspera Connect Version.
  1. Download the Connect SDK zip file from the Aspera Developer Network and unzip the folder into a temporary location.
  2. Create this folder: /opt/aspera/faspex/public/connect
  3. Extract the Connect SDK to the connect folder.
  4. Give Faspex permissions and ownership of the new Connect directory. 
    # chown -R faspex:faspex /opt/aspera/faspex/public/connect
# chmod -R 755 /opt/aspera/faspex/public/connect
  5. In the Faspex UI, go to Server > Configuration > Transfer Options and select Locally host Connect.