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Tuesday, December 16. 2008Implementing an APS socket
I recently read about the APS project and became curious. APS, shorthand for Application Packaging Standard, is - as far as I understand it - a relatively recent standard that provides SaaS providers (i.e., us as a hosting provider) with a standardized format for software packaging. So far, some sounding names from the PHP Open Source community have embraced APS, including the notorious, but indispensable phpBB, Drupal, Magento and Typo3.
For hosters, APS is supposed to be a great addition to their portfolio: The introduction of APS advances the web hosting industry. By implementing APS, hosting service providers can gain access to a great variety of APS applications. In turn, application vendors that implement APS, can get access to a vast sales and marketing channel via APS-enabled hosting providers. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find detailed documentation on the process of implementing an APS socket - the only freely available docs seem to be the standards document and ISV guidelines, both of which don’t really help me. Now, I reach out to you PHP guys - has any of you ever had something to do with APS (preferrably on the hoster/provider side of things)? Do you have pointers as to where to start the socket implementation? I’m looking forward to your input. Trackbacks
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Here you will find the documentation:
http://www.apsstandard.com/doc/
Thanks, but that doesn’t help me at all. I pointed out in the article that I had read these documents. Quote: “the only freely available docs seem to be the standards document and ISV guidelines, both of which don’t really help me.” - which are exactly those documents you linked.
I’m able to click on a “documentation” link, but the documentation provided is not conclusive enough.
I can download all documents on this site. And there is the packaging standard descriped.
You need an special directory structur and entry point scripts for installing/upgrading/remove and so on. Perhaps you searching for something other... Peter
Peter,
if you had actually read my blog entry, you would have noticed that I do not want to package anything. On the contrary, I want to unpackage something. That is not a miracle seeing that I am a hoster and not an application developer.
Ok at syscp.org they have implemented the hosting part:
https://websvn.syscp.org/browser/SysCP/trunk/syscp/scripts/cron_apsinstaller.php and https://websvn.syscp.org/browser/SysCP/trunk/syscp/lib/class_apsinstaller.php as starting point, but this is integrated into syscp, but perhaps it will save you some time. Peter
That looks very interesting indeed, thanks!
I developed a APS solution. The documentation is so poor and I found myself wishing someone had made a class to manage APS, so I wouldn’t have to go through it all, I’m somewhat surprised none exist. So, feel free
 It also requires execution (root?) permissions on the webserver to perform the installation, which is a somewhat dodgy idea.
At the moment there is no publicily available documentation for implementing your own APS-compatible hosting environment.
However, you definitely can contact the APS team and get some help from them. (Assuming that you do not want to follow “easy” way by getting an APS-aware control panel like Plesk 9)
Have you found a solution for you? I would very interested in the same issue, so please if you’ve found some example scripts since then and and/or if you can make them availalble in any way, please contact me.
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