Dear Jeremy, Thanks a lot for your detailed answer. We will keep in touch and will waiting your next e-mail. Cheers Nayden -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jeremy Leibs" Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 8:08 PM To: Subject: Re: [ros-users] Questions about PR2 web interface > Sorry for the delay in addressing this issue. > > 2010/7/12 Nayden Chivarov : >> >> >> What files should be placed in /etc/ros/env? - Please could You give us >> some Example setup? > > This is actually a very confusing issue at the moment which nobody > really understands completely and nobody has ownership of. > > We're actually in the process of figuring out how to phase out > /etc/ros/env all together since it only seems to lead to confusion and > inconsistency. > >> >> We have tried to setup pr2 sim together with webui stack (apache, python, >> etc requirements installed). However we are not able to launch it by >> opening >> http://IP_OF_THE_PR2, if You could give us any ideas how to configure it >> would be welcome, since after installing webui stack we haven’t >> connected >> with PR2, just we have seen a login screen. >> > > Sorry that you have not had success with this yet. > > As a step toward simplifying usage of the web interface, I have > recently made some large changes to the web_interface stack in trunk. > In particular, I have added a package, "ros_apache2" which contains > everything necessary to launch a secondary apache server in userspace. > This server comes up on port 8080 instead, instead of the default 80. > It inherits its ros environment from your local environment and as > such does not need /etc/roc/env to be configured. > > This is now launched as part of webui.launch. > > If you check out trunk of the web_interface stack, you might have more > success getting that running. > > https://code.ros.org/svn/wg-ros-pkg/stacks/web_interface/trunk > > With trunk of web_interface overlayed on cturtle, I was able to bring > up gazebo with a pr2, roslaunch webui webui.launch and then go to > http://localhost:8080, and successfully interface to the pr2 with the > webui. > > The only environment variable it still makes use of at the moment is: > "/etc/ros/env/ROBOT", to determine which apps to display. I intend to > switch this over to using a parameter from the parameter server, > however, possibly by the end of the day. > > NOTE: trunk is not stable and I may be breaking things as I proceed. > However, it may still be easier to work with than the existing > mechanism of dealing with /etc/ros/env. It may also provide guidance > in getting an appropriate apache server running through a different > mechanism. > > I will send out a more detailed email when I finish making all of my > changes to the stack and releasing a new version of web_interface. > > --Jeremy > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users