Formever NC-SAAS Technical Details

How simple it is to create your own NC-SAAS using Formever?

You just download the Formever SAAS install and install it on an Ubuntu computer. (Windows or MacOS as the administration platform will be added later).

You open a terminal/command window.

You run the /formever/saas.sh script

At the command prompt type:

.saasWizard

The following is a typical wizard session to create your SAAS cloud

FORMEVER SAAS WIZARD

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Answer any question with a ? for help.

Do you wish to use an IAAS service to provide servers?yes

Enter DO for Digital Ocean or AWS for Amazon: DO
Enter your Digital Ocean API key: AEFDE9833EE…
These are the flavors of servers available:
1 -8 GB 128G SSD 2- 16GB 256 SSD …
What flavor of server you want Server 0 in your swarm to be: 2
What is the URL prefix for you location URL : zzqrztt
Please give the path of your corporate logo:
**** Generating Public/ Private Key pair
**** Creating server
**** Loading Formever software onto server
**** Server is running and ready for accounts
Server IP is 1.44.33.158
 

That finishes the wizard session but there is one more thing to do. You go to your DNS service (I use hover.com) and register the location URL to point to the IP of your server. This is very easy and there will be detailed documentation on how to do it if you are unfamiliar with DNS entries.

That is all there is to it you now have a running SAAS service.

If you wish to use your own servers they have to be set up first as Ubuntu servers. And have a public key placed on them. If this seems too difficult then you shouldn’t be using your own servers. Just rent them on a cloud service like Digital Ocean. If you are going to run your own servers you will have to be able to install Ubuntu and copy in a file. This is not difficult at all but it does mean some extra steps.

Developing and Putting Accounts on your Cloud

Formever provides a complete No Code development environment for creating completely custom systems for your clients. You develop the system in ‘local’ mode – i.e. off line. In local mode the system runs just as it does on the cloud. It is almost impossible to tell the difference.

When you have developed a system and tested it locally you are ready to put this system onto your SAAS cloud. going. You do these steps:

1. go to admin program as as for an activation key .registerAccount
The admin program will find a server that can accommodate the account and register the account there returning a key
e.g. BBBB-BBBB-BBBB-BBBK .

2. Run the Formever local and go to the activation form. Fill in the form giving the activation key and choosing a unique account name.

3. Hit the button to activate and you are done – the system will be copied into the cloud and now you or any other Directors you have set up can log in and start working.