Open MIDATA Server

The Open MIDATA Server was developed by ETH Zurich and Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH.

The platform allows citizens to collect their health data and to freely decide upon data use in research and data projects.

Please refer to the instructions provided for setting up a development instance.

Disclaimer

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Installation (localhost)

Install git and make:

sudo apt-get install git make

Then clone this repository into a directory of your choice.

git clone https://github.com/MIDATAcooperative/open-midata-server
cd open-midata-server

Prepare an empty directory where you want to have the plugins

mkdir plugins

Prepare an empty directory where you want to have SSL certificates installed

mkdir ssl

Configure the installer

make config

An editor will open where you can configure the instance.

Afterwards a second editor will open where you have to configure two pathes:

PLUGINS_DIR : Where will MIDATA plugins be located?
CERTIFICATE_DIR : Where should certificates be placed? You will have to change the two pathes to the directories you have created before.

Repeat the configuration step until you are satisfied with the settings. The pathes have to be correct before starting the next step.

Run the installation:

make install

Please answer all questions during installation.

As part of the installation two certificates will be generated: The first is a self signed certificate for operating the server.

The second one is for issuing client certificates.

After the installation has successfully completed you can start the server in development mode.

Starting the instance in development mode:

Open two terminals. Terminal 1:

make update

Terminal 2: (after Terminal 1 is ready)

cd portal
npm run dev:server

The local server will be at address: https://localhost:9002 On the developer login page you can log in as "admin@example.com" with initial password "secret". Please use this account to register new administrator accounts. When done set the status of the "admin@example.com" user to "BLOCKED" and never use it again.

Folder structure

conf: Config files used by the platform.
config: Config files for external components
platform: Code for the open MIDATA server.
portal: Code for the portal of the open MIDATA server
json: JSON data and scripts for the database.
nginx: Templates for nginx configuration
apps: some additional tools for the server
switches: Used by build process
tasks: Used by build process