Serving Connect from a Local Location

If you need to host the IBM Aspera Connect Plug-in SDK installers locally, you can download the Connect SDK file and configure Shares to point to a local copy of the Connect SDK hosted at a non-standard location. In this way, users download Connect from a server of your choice.

Download the Connect SDK zip file from the Aspera Developer Network.
Create the directory, C:\Shares\connect-sdk, and extract the contents of the connect SDK into this directory.
Edit the connectinstaller-4.js file found at the following location: C:\Shares\connect\v4\connectinstaller-4.js
Change the default SDK location to connectOptions.sdkLocation.
```
var updatesURL = connectOptions.sdkLocation;
```
Open the file at C:\Shares\nginx\conf\nginx.conf and ensure the directive below is included in the file:
```
http {
    server {
        include locations-enabled/*.conf;
    }
}
```
Create a file named "connect-sdk.conf" in the following location: C:\Shares\nginx\conf\locations-enabled\connect-sdk.conf. Paste the following content and save the file:
```
location /connect/ {
  alias C:/Shares/connect-sdk/;
  expires 1d;
}
```
Point Shares to the new Connect SDK location by editing the file at C:\Shares\www\app\views\node\shared\_aspera_web_plugin_install.html.haml.
Change the following line to one of two options:
```
- connect_autoinstall_location = '//d3gcli72yxqn2z.cloudfront.net/connect/v4'
```
- Programmatically set the domain name of the server.
```
- connect_autoinstall_location = "//#{ request.host_with_port }/connect/v4"
```
- Manually set the domain name of the server. Replace shares.example.com with the Shares server domain.
```
- connect_autoinstall_location = '//shares.example.com/connect/v4'
```
Find the following line under function loadConnectScript:
```
var url = window.location.protocol + CONNECT_AUTOINSTALL_LOCATION + '/' + script + '.min.js';
```
Replace it with the line below:
```
var url = window.location.protocol + CONNECT_AUTOINSTALL_LOCATION + '/' + script + '.js';
```
Restart Shares and Nginx.
Go to Start Menu > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services. Right-click and select Restart for each of the following services:
- Aspera Nginx Service
- Aspera Delayed Job Service
- Aspera Web Services
- Aspera Stats Collector

Your Shares server is now hosting IBM Aspera Connect Browser Plug-in and installers.

Note: You may need to clear your browser cache in order for these changes to take effect.