Building and installation on Linux#
1. System update#
Let's update the system (Ubuntu):
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
To build the app you need git, g++, cmake (Ubuntu):
sudo apt-get install git g++ cmake
cmake and git must be accessible by bash.
2. Firewall#
Set up the firewall:
Allow connection via SSH:
sudo ufw allow ssh
Basic rules:
sudo ufw default deny incoming
sudo ufw default allow outgoing
Allow connections via HTTP and HTTPS:
sudo ufw allow http
sudo ufw allow https
Activate the firewall:
sudo ufw enable
3. Building#
Do a git clone to download the project and go into the directory. Building is done by using the build.sh scenario:
git clone --branch=master --depth=1 https://github.com/green-api/whatsapp-api-webhook-server-cpp
cd whatsapp-api-webhook-server-cpp
.\build.sh
Application is built at Release config by default. Config file config.json and directory jsonSchema are copied to build/bin directory. The application will prioritize build/bin files over project's directory.
After successful build you can build it using .\build.sh or
cmake --build build --config=Release
4. Running the app#
The application binary is placed in build/bin/. During the application build process, the configuration file is copied to the build/bin directory. The server first looks for a file in this directory when it starts, loading config.json from the project-wide directory only if it is not in build/bin.
Running the app:
./build/bin/whatsapp-api-webhook-server-cpp
Server exposes port from config.json configuration (by default: 5000).
To test the server you can use Postman collection.