CNT3004-Project

To test on Google Cloud:

1. Clone the repository to your desired local directory with git clone.
2. Open the local version of the repository CNT3004-Project.
3. On a browser, navigate to Google Cloud.
4. Create a new project.
5. Navigate to the Compute Engine page for your project, and select on the 'VM Instances' tab.
6. Create a VM Instance with the 'Create Instance' button
7. Configure your instance to suit your billing affordance.
8. Start your instance.
9. Open the instance. Scroll to network interfaces:

• In server.py change host to the IP address listed under 'Primary internal IP address'
• In client.py change host to the IP address listed under 'External IP address'. Remember that this address can change with Starting/Stoping the instance or overtime.

8. Scroll back to the top and open an SSH window with the 'SSH' button.
9. Upload the file server.py into the SSH with the 'Upload File' button.
10. Create a directory for the server files named server_files in your main directory.

use command mkdir server_files to create the folder.

11. Create a file named passwords.txt in your main directory.

use command touch passwords.txt to create the file.

12. In view.py, update FILE_STORAGE_DIR to the path of server_files

use command realpath server_files to get the exact path; copy it and assign the value to FILE_STORAGE_DIR

13. In view.py in the method validate_credentials() in the class LoginView, update filepath to the path of passwords.txt.\

use command realpath passwords.txt to get the exact path; copy it and assign the value to filepath

14. Start the server with the command python3 server.py.
15. Start the program by running main.py.
16. When finished, Stop your VM instance to avoid extra billing.