Photon RPM OSTree: 6 Installing a server
This is the server that is going to be used by a system administrator or a package installer developer to compose filesystem trees. Assuming you've already downloaded the Photon ISO File, created a new VM in Fusion, Workstation or ESXi box, and went through the steps common to all installation profiles (license agreement, disk partitioning), select the "Photon OSTree Server" option and continue with setting up a host name (like photon-srv) and a root password.
Once the server boots, and you are informed that RPM-OSTree repository is exposed via http. Now login and get the machine's IP address, you will need it to pass it to the hosts that want to connect to it.
The Apache web server is configured to only serve http requests. If you want to also serve https, you need to take additional steps - install certificates specific to your organization.
You may also want to ask your network administrator for a static IP, so your users who install Photon RPM-OSTree hosts will enter a pretty name like photon-srv.mycompany.com, rather than remember a numeric IP address.
Now you are ready to customize the filetree image to be downloaded by hosts, but before that, go to next page to install your own host connected to this server, as it's more natural to test the server and host in parallel.