Performing Local IBM Aspera Connect Browser Plug-in Installation

Companies that need to host the IBM Aspera Connect Browser Plug-in SDK installers locally can download the Connect SDK file and configure IBM Aspera Faspex on Demand to point to a local copy of the Connect SDK that is hosted on the Faspex server itself, or some other non-standard location. This enables their customers to make their users download Connect from a server of their choice.
  1. Download the Connect SDK zip file from the ADN. Unzip the Connect SDK zip file in /opt/aspera/faspex/connect.
  2. Give Faspex permissions and ownership of the new Connect directory.
    Chown the new Connect directory recursively using faspex:faspex, 
    and then chmod it with 755. 
    
    # chown -R faspex:faspex /opt/aspera/faspex/connect
    # chmod 755 /opt/aspera/faspex/connect
  3. Edit /opt/aspera/faspex/config/faspex.apache.linux.conf.
    Add this section:
    
    Alias /connect "C:/Program Files (x86)/Aspera/Faspex/connect" 
    <Directory "C:/Program Files (x86)/Aspera/Faspex/connect"> 
       Options -Indexes -FollowSymLinks 
       AllowOverride none 
       Order allow,deny 
       Allow from all 
    </Directory>
  4. Change the location from which customers will download IBM Aspera Connect Browser Plug-in.
    Edit /opt/aspera/faspex/public/javascripts/connect_auto_install.js.
    Change the following line: 
    
    var CONNECT_AUTOINSTALL_LOCATION = '//d3gcli72yxqn2z.cloudfront.net/connect/';
    
    Replace d3gcli72yxqn2z.cloudfront.net with the FQDN that points to
    your Faspex service in your environment. 
  5. Restart the Faspex Apache service.
    asctl apache:restart