Gedcom-Web-View

GEDCOM Web View serves GEDCOM files as web pages.

Copyright © 2004–2019, Christopher Alan Mosher, Shelton, Connecticut, USA, [email protected].

Usage

Requires Java JDK version 8 (or higher) installed. Build and install manually:

./gradlew build
sudo tar xf build/distributions/gedcom-web-view-1.2.0.tar -C /opt

Set up the directory ./gedcom/ to contain GEDCOM (*.ged) files to serve, then run the start script:

/opt/gedcom-web-view-1.2.0/bin/gedcom-web-view

Browse to http://localhost:4567/.

Privacy

GEDCOM files typically contain private information of recent events. GEDCOM Web View will hide such sensitive information, except for authorized users who sign in using their Google account. To allow access to private information for a user, add their email address to a file named SERVE_PUBLIC_GED_FILES in the same directory as the *.ged files. For example:

echo "[email protected]" >SERVE_PUBLIC_GED_FILES

Set up Google OAuth 2.0 web application credentials for your web site, and add your web URLs as Authorized JavaScript origins and redirect URIs. Pass the Client ID in the CLIENT_ID environment variable. For example:

CLIENT_ID=1234567890-afnrivao9wr89y3jnwr.apps.googleusercontent.com /opt/gedcom-web-view-1.2.0/bin/gedcom-web-view