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This part of the guide contains information on connecting to you instance
Git is a cooperative platform in which multiple software developers can ‘commit’ or make changes to the same existing code without destructive consequences. Gerrit is another code review platform in which software developers can upload their changes so that other developers can review to make sure that the code meets their expectations and standards. Finally GitHub is a repository where it is good practice to only upload working versions of code. This guide contains information on how to set up Git, using Git to commit to Gerrit, and how to keep your system updated.
Keeping your local repository updated
The next section of the guide contains DRMF server specific information. It contains guides on how to download the current indexes, creating and starting both the servers used for the Math Search extension, and also information on how to import databases onto your instance.
Retrieving the formula page indexes
Installing, Configuring, and Running MathWeb Search
Installing and Running BaseX Search
How to import the DRMF database to your DRMF instance
Editing the files on the instance manually can be a hassle because editing directly on the instance is slow and there is no backup if mistakes are made. The last section involves installing and configuring the PHPStorm IDE so that it integrates a local and remote copy of your instance and automatically keeps them synchronized with each other, this way maintaining speed and a local backup.
Using PHPStorm to create a local server to test PHP files
In case PHPStorm is dysfunctional
###If you are working at NIST or for any other high security facility, chances are, you are not allowed to run commands as root via sudo
However, a lot of the setting up and uploading and connecting in this guide requires you to sudo inside of ** your** instance. NOT THE LOCAL MACHINE!
I repeat, using
sudoon a NIST computer can and will get you in a lot of trouble (I know from experience) so you cannot use it.
One way to avoid accidently sudoing in your machine when you meant to do it on your instance is to create an alias on your instance so that everytime you type in that alias the sudo command is actually being implement.
In my case, I made the alias for sudo be doit
Follow this to make an alias on your instance that way you never have to type sudo both on your instance and your local machine but typing doit will act as a sudo alias only when you type it into your instance.
Therefore if you accidently doit on your machine nothing will happen because no alias for doit exist.