Automatic Setup of Solid CSS

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Hello Solid Folks,

We are running experiments on solid CSS on 50 machines. I want a way to automate completing Solid-Sevre Setup when restarting the servers (https://example.ac.uk:3000/setup).

Currently, we have to do that manually which becomes quite hectic when doing that on 50 machines.

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Is there any kind of request we could send to the servers so the Solid server can complete the setup?

Thanks in advance for your great help and support.
-Ragab

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You should change your CSS configuration: see also the configuration generator: Community Solid Server configuration tool

  • Miscellaneous > Setup > Disabled

Then you can just use a POST request according to the Solid spec to generate a pod
Here is an example JavaScript example:

var myHeaders = new Headers();
myHeaders.append("Content-Type", "application/json");

var raw = JSON.stringify({
  "podName": "pod-test",
  "email": "pod-test@test.edu",
  "password": "pod-test",
  "confirmPassword": "pod-test",
  "register": true,
  "createPod": true,
  "createWebId": true
});

var requestOptions = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: myHeaders,
  body: raw,
  redirect: 'follow'
};

fetch("http://localhost:3000/idp/register/", requestOptions)
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(result => console.log(result))
  .catch(error => console.log('error', error));

Or with curl

curl --location 'http://localhost:3000/idp/register/' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
      "podName": "pod-test",
      "email": "pod-test@test.edu",
      "password": "pod-test",
      "confirmPassword": "pod-test",
      "register": true,
      "createPod": true,
      "createWebId": true
    }'

You could probably also use templates to not have to do an additional request after starting the server: https://github.com/CommunitySolidServer/CommunitySolidServer/tree/main/templates
See also the configuration generator > additional customization > pod template folder
I have no experience with that though, but you can play around with it and see if that helps for your case.

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