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General question regarding approach to VMs on a home server
General question about architecture
I have a home server on which I've got 2 virtual servers. What I'd like to do is to install an evaluation copy of a process modelling tool like bizagi for example onto the server and make examples of my work available through a web server to demo to people.
With my limited knowledge I'm thinking that I'd have a web-site I'm imagining on a LAMP server on the ubuntu VM.
The process modelling tools tend to just be available on windows so will it be possible to have diagrams etc. I've done on one server (windows) available to demo on the website hosted on a web server on ubuntu? Does this seem a sensible approach?
The diagrams would need to be viewed through the software, They will be written in BPMN 2.0 which is a standard (available as 2 XML files but I'm not aware of tools in ubuntu to display BPMN files?)
Should I be looking at a purely windows web-server (does such a thing even exist?)
Kind regards,
Anthony
I have a home server on which I've got 2 virtual servers. What I'd like to do is to install an evaluation copy of a process modelling tool like bizagi for example onto the server and make examples of my work available through a web server to demo to people.
With my limited knowledge I'm thinking that I'd have a web-site I'm imagining on a LAMP server on the ubuntu VM.
The process modelling tools tend to just be available on windows so will it be possible to have diagrams etc. I've done on one server (windows) available to demo on the website hosted on a web server on ubuntu? Does this seem a sensible approach?
The diagrams would need to be viewed through the software, They will be written in BPMN 2.0 which is a standard (available as 2 XML files but I'm not aware of tools in ubuntu to display BPMN files?)
Should I be looking at a purely windows web-server (does such a thing even exist?)
Kind regards,
Anthony
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you will need to export the bpm data into either a pdf or other graphics format.
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Thanks for getting back.
Does this mean that it would not be possible to display the windows app (e.g. bizagi et al.) on the web-site hosted on a LAMP server?
Thanks,
Anthony
Does this mean that it would not be possible to display the windows app (e.g. bizagi et al.) on the web-site hosted on a LAMP server?
Thanks,
Anthony
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Apologies if the last comment appears a trick question, it isn't, I just don't know.
Regards,
Regards,
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I don't want to do anything with a web-site interpreting BPM data, I'd prefer to have a part of a page be able to connect to the BPM tool and display diagram etc. The same that you embed a youtube video on a web-site.
The problem with converting a diagram into a pdf and displaying that is that although you can see the diagram flow, you can't click on an object and see details about it, hence the desire to connect to the BPM tool.
The problem with converting a diagram into a pdf and displaying that is that although you can see the diagram flow, you can't click on an object and see details about it, hence the desire to connect to the BPM tool.
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