embeddingsearch/docs/Server.md

Server

The server by default

• runs on port 5146
• Uses Swagger UI in development mode (/swagger/index.html)
• Ignores API keys when not in development mode

Installing the dependencies

Ubuntu 24.04

1. sudo apt update && sudo apt install dotnet-sdk-8.0 -y

Windows

Download the .NET SDK or follow these steps to use WSL:

1. Install Ubuntu in WSL (wsl --install and wsl --install -d Ubuntu)
2. Enter your WSL environment wsl.exe and configure it
3. Update via sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo snap refresh
4. Continue here: Ubuntu 24.04

MySQL database setup

1. Install the MySQL server:

• Linux/WSL: sudo apt install mysql-server
• Windows: MySQL Community Server

2. connect to it: sudo mysql -u root (Or from outside of WSL: mysql -u root)
3. Create the database CREATE DATABASE embeddingsearch; use embeddingsearch;
4. Create the user CREATE USER 'embeddingsearch'@'%' identified by "somepassword!"; GRANT ALL ON embeddingsearch.* TO embeddingsearch; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
5. Create the tables using the CLI tool: dotnet build and src/cli/bin/Debug/net8.0/cli -h $mysql_ip -p $mysql_port -U $mysql_username -P $mysql_password --database --setup