Rport comes with a web-based graphical user interface (frontend) which is distributed as a separate bundle.
Only the rport command-line tools – rport server and rport client – are released under the open-source MIT license. The optional graphical user interface is NOT open-source, and free to use only under certain circumstances.
In short, the following is not covered by the license and requires acquiring a commercial license.
- Building a SaaS product or offering a hosted version of rport, either paid or free.
- Running rport and the UI and granting customers access to it, either paid or free.
Free usage in a company is allowed, as long as only employees of the company have access to rport. Read the full license. The uncompressed source code is not published.
The frontend comes as a minified and compressed bundle of Javascript files and all needed assets. The frontend does not require any server-side scripting support. The rport server provides static file serving for that purpose.
Make sure you have the below options enabled in [api] section of the rportd.conf.
doc_root = "/var/lib/rport/docroot"
- Download the latest release of the frontend from https://downloads.rport.io/frontend/stable.
- Unpack to the
doc_rootfolder. - Open the API-URL in a browser.
- Log in with a username and password specified for the API authentication.
You are done.