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I'm building a command line utility and one of my clients (who's not so computer savvy) wants to have access to it.

I was wondering, is there anything available that would let me redirect stdin/stout for a terminal app to a port as a website? This would save me a lot of time. Surely, there must be an Ubuntu one-liner that can accomplish such a feat...

Thanks for any pointers!

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The problem is slightly more complicated than simply "redirecting stdin/stdout" to a port.

What you need is basically a shell session to your server with a client which runs inside a browser. This answer links to two such shells, AjaxTerm and WebShell

Ajaxterm is a web based terminal. It was totally inspired and works almost exactly like http://anyterm.org/ except it's much easier to install

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What worries me a bit is that both programs were last updated in 2008, which in web-years like 50 years ago. Please report back if you manage to run any of them.

A newer and seemingly more supported option is Shell In A Box:

Shell In A Box implements a web server that can export arbitrary command line tools to a web based terminal emulator. This emulator is accessible to any JavaScript and CSS enabled web browser and does not require any additional browser plugins. Most typically, login shells would be exported this way: shellinaboxd -s /:LOGIN

This command starts a web server at http:// localhost :4200 that allows users to login with their username and password and to get access to their login shell.

All client-server communications are encrypted, if SSL/TLS certificates have been installed.

It is even available in Ubuntu repositories and can be installed with

sudo apt-get install shellinabox
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Sergey
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actually you can upload Application into your Launchpad account as PPA . All your clients can access the application by adding it's PPA .

For more information read these things

Packaging

Code

One more choice is you can upload your application into dropbox .

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    Thanks, but I'm referring to hosting an app through a port, so a user can interact with the app through a website. I am not referring to simply "uploading an app" to the internet. – Conrad Dec 29 '12 at 03:14
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Why not use Gate One? It's a web-based terminal emulator. You can configure it to automatically launch your terminal application whenever a user connects/opens a new terminal. Here's a screenshot showing off the automatic syntax highlighting of syslogs:

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You can also do cool stuff with it like display images, play sound files, and whatnot. It also supports Unicode and foreign-language input (IME) if your users are international.

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