Overview

Currently we are using node.js 0.4.9 and Openssl. You may need to download and install openssl.

Installation of Required Software 

Certificate Installation

These certificates are used to proxy to the test server using your credentials.

  1. Go to Firefox/Preferences/Advanced/Encryption/View Certificates and click on your certificate and click the Backup button. In the Save Dialog box, save your certificate as a pks12 (.p12) file in your server directory (neatest if you save it in a cert subdirectory).
  2. Using your terminal, CD to the cert subdirectory.
  3. Create a .pem file: openssl pkcs12 -nodes -in yourcert.p12 -out yourcert.pem
  4. Now remove the password from your .pem file this way: openssl rsa -in yourcert.pem -out yourcertNoPassword.pem
  5. From the Authorities tab in FF, export and save the "MIT Certification Authority..." certification to a file name mitCA.pem in /zend_framework/public/server/certs folder.
  6. {{put the correct paths to your certs in the proxy.js file (roughly lines 21-23 / see example below).}}Proxy.js example: 
    var KEY = fs.readFileSync('./certs/yourcert.pem').toString();
var CERT = fs.readFileSync('./certs/yourcertNoPassword.pem').toString();
var CA = fs.readFileSync('./certs/mitCA.pem').toString();

Install Required Node Module Dependencies

  1. Navigate to /zend_framework/public/server/
  2. Execute npm (node package manager) which will read the package.json file and install the listed dependencies. 
    1. npm install

Create auth.json

Create /zend_framework/public/server/auth.json with your username and password in the following format, substituting your actual credentials:

{
	"username": "jresig",
	"password": "jQuery2006"
}

Testing The Local Server

  1. Navigate to zend_framework/public/server
  2. Start the server via command ./bin/mitserv

Possible Issues