topic Re: Run Experience Builder Developer Edition as a Windows service in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Run Experience Builder Developer Edition as a Windows service

HeatherStanton — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:34:55 GMT

I would like to share Experience Builder Developer Edition across our entire GIS Team, and would like to run it as a Windows service on a server using a service account, similar to Web AppBuilder Developer Edition. There's a great blog post on how to do this with Web AppBuilder Developer Edition here

Has anyone had success running Experience Builder Developer Edition as a Windows service? Is this an acceptable pattern?

Re: Run Experience Builder Developer Edition as a Windows service

Benjamin_LEDOS — Tue, 04 May 2021 12:53:05 GMT

I ask myself exactly the same question and the answer is not as simple as it might seem 😐

The startup of ArcGIS Web AppBuilder is with Node.js But in server configuration (load server.json)

OFF SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion TITLE Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS SET serverPath=server SET serverjsFile=server.js SET port=3344 SET wabVirtualPath=webappbuilder SET portTaken=0 IF DEFINED USERDNSDOMAIN (SET FQDN=%COMPUTERNAME%.%USERDNSDOMAIN%) ELSE (SET FQDN=%COMPUTERNAME%) IF DEFINED PROGRAMFILES(X86) (SET nodeFile=node_x64.exe) ELSE (SET nodeFile=node_x86.exe) ...

To start EXB, we launch an application running under Node.js and autocall package.json where is the .bat file

npm start

I am not a Node.js specialist 😊

Re: Run Experience Builder Developer Edition as a Windows service

Benjamin_LEDOS — Tue, 04 May 2021 15:05:03 GMT

I found an interesting lead thanks to the post of Peter Eysermans : installing-a-node-application-as-a-windows-service

and this github : node-windows

But it does not work yet but it is progressing 😋

Re: Run Experience Builder Developer Edition as a Windows service

DerrickWong — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 05:42:01 GMT

Hi @HeatherStanton and @Benjamin_LEDOS ,

As of v1.4, You can now do so using the command npm run install-windows-service.

Have a read here for more information:

https://developers.arcgis.com/experience-builder/guide/install-guide/#install-as-a-windows-service

Hope that helps.

Derrick

Re: Run Experience Builder Developer Edition as a Windows service

HeatherStanton — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:01:10 GMT

Thank you for bringing this to my attention! I really appreciate it.