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Launching DH Box
DH Box is designed for college faculty who have familiarity with DH tools. Do you know what the command line is? Do you know what a server does? If you answered yes, you are ready to launch!
If you're unfamiliar with any of the above, we recommend you engage with some other resources before planning a DH Box launch. Here are several resources to explore:
[The Command Line the Hard Way by Zed Shaw] (http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/)
[Computer processing terminology by the Apache Software Foundation] (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/getting-started.html#other)
[Programming Lessons by the Programming Historian] (http://programminghistorian.org/lessons)
[How did they make that? deconstructing DH projects by Miriam Posner] (http://miriamposner.com/blog/how-did-they-make-that/)
On the DH Box launch page:
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Enter an Administrator username and password and your email address.
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If you would like other people to be able to access this DH Box (for example, students), click the Add a user button for each and fill out additional usernames and passwords.
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Click launch.
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Wait for an email confirmation in your inbox with the IP address of your new DH Box.
Go to the IP address in your email confirmation. This is the welcome page of your new DH Box. Bookmark this page and note when your DH Box will expire. You will need to export your data you want to save before this expiration date.
Locations for the tools in DH Box:
Locations are based on the IP address of your DH Box, for example xx.xxx.xxx.xxx
RStudio is located at xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8787, that is, port 8787.
Omeka is located at xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080, that is, port 8080. Its Super User account has the same username and password as your DH Box.
You can access the Bash shell at xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:4200. Once there, input your DH Box username and password. This is where you can get access to IPython, MALLET, and the Natural Language Toolkit. In fact, much of the dirty work will be done from this page. You, as the administrator for this new DH Box, have sudo. powers! That means you can do whatever you want to the filesystem. Other users do not have this power.