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, /opt/aspera/shares/u/connect-sdk, and extract the contents of the connect SDK into this directory.
Edit the connectinstaller-4.js file found at the following location: /opt/aspera/shares/u/connect-sdk/v4/connectinstaller-4.js
Change the default SDK location to connectOptions.sdkLocation.
```
var updatesURL = connectOptions.sdkLocation;
```
Create a Connect Nginx configuration file named "connect-sdk" at /opt/aspera/shares/etc/nginx/locations-available/connect-sdk with the following content:
```
location /connect/ {
  alias /opt/aspera/shares/u/connect-sdk/;
  expires 1d;
}
```
Create a symlink between the connect-sdk file and the locations-enabled folder so Nginx includes the configuration file.
```
# ln -s /opt/aspera/shares/etc/nginx/locations-available/connect-sdk /opt/aspera/shares/etc/nginx/locations-enabled
```
Point Shares to the new Connect SDK location by editing the file at /opt/aspera/shares/u/shares/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.

# service aspera-shares restart
# killall -HUP nginx

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.