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| Windows noVNC Websockify Service |
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| The "noVNC Websocket Service.exe" file is a windows service wrapper created with Visual Studio 2010 to create a windows service to start stop the noVNC Websocket Server. All files used to create the wrapper can be found in 'noVNC Websocket Service Project' folder. |
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| To download the precompiled executables please grab the zip in the downloads section of websockify project: |
| https://github.com/kanaka/websockify |
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| Installation |
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| 1. This service requires websockify.exe be in the same directory. Instructions on how to compile websockify python script as a windows executable can be found here: |
| https://github.com/kanaka/websockify/wiki/Compiling-Websockify-as-Windows-Executable |
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| 2.To add this service to a Windows PC you need to run the commandline as administrator and then run this line: |
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| sc create "noVNC Websocket Server" binPath= "PATH TO noVNC eg C:\noVNC\utils\Windows\Websocket Service.exe" DisplayName= "noVNC Websocket Server" |
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| 3 .Once this is run you will be able to access the service via Control Panel > Admin Tools > Services. In here you can specify whether you want the service to run automatically and start at stop the service. |
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| Configuration |
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| The file noVNCConfig.ini must be in the same directory as "noVNC Websocket Service.exe". |
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| This file contains a single line which is the websockify.exe statup arguements. An example is: |
| 192.168.0.1:5901 192.168.0.1:5900 |
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| All websockify supported arguements will work if added here. |
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| Deletion |
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| You can delete the service at any time by running the commandline as admin and using this command: |
| sc delete "noVNC Websocket Server". |
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