First off, this software is a stand alone test environment using mock routing. This means it only has access to what you upload and there will be no content to see.
I created this because I thought some people might need help or have suggestions using the software you can download below: Click here to download the Safe Browser 0.2.1 Click here to download the Web Hosting Manager.
First thing you’ll need to do after downloading the software and unzipping the contents of the files is start the SAFE Browser and register an account. To register an account you’ll need to select the “Rocket” circled in red as shown below:
Then after the Authenticator page has loaded select "Create Account"
You will then be guided through the process to setup an account. When are asked for a invitation code any 4 digits will work.
After you've successfully registered an account you will need open/start the "Web Hosting Manager" software. When you first the "Web Hosting Manager" software you will asked in the SAFE Browser to allow it access. If you don't give the "Web Hosting Manager" it won't work.
Then you will need to "Create Public Id":
Then you will need to "CREATE SERVICE" after:
Then you'll enter then the name of the service and then select "Create Service"(the Create Service button only becomes visible after you've entered something in the "Enter Service Name".
Then after you create the service you will need to upload your files. To do that you'll need to select the text after the name of the service as shown below circled in red:
Then you'll upload the file or directory by selecting from the drop down menu that appears when you place your mouse cursor over the area pointed to by the red arrow.
If you don’t upload anything you will only see the following screen or something close to it(the address shown would depend on what you entered):
I’ll add more to this when I can and please offer suggestions.
I was getting something like that before - it worked once then failed. Haven’t had a chance to test the latest one yet, but plan to over the weekend. Are you on Windows?
I’m stuck at this point. I can register an account, use the web hosting manager to create a service, then upload an index.html file but can’t get it to load in the SAFE Browser. Using Windows 7.
Hi @upstate, what URL are you using to load the page on the browser?
E.g. if your public Id is my-public-id, your service is my-service and the html page you uploaded is called my-page.html, you can then access it with safe://my-service.my-public-id/my-page.html
But when I restart everything it fails again. I was able to get the SAFE Browser reset by deleting the appdata folder associated with it, but deleting the Web Hosting Manger app data folder doesn’t work. Even after I deleted the whole folder the Web Hosting Manager was running from, unzipped a the file again and it was still showing previous information from when I got it to work the first time including it didn’t ask to be authorized in the SAFE Browser. It’s pulling cached data from some where and I can’t figure out where it is to delete it. I tried using the “Clear Data Access” option in the Manager but get the following error:
I know another release is coming down the pipeline and this isn’t big issue, but I’ll still try to figure how to reset the Manager.
Took me a while to pick up the courage - a couple of years ago I think. Not problem free, but I am so happy to be free of windows now. Anyway, I was only teasing, people should be free to sleep on beds of nails if that’s what they want
