Installing ODK Central on Windows 10

[mkjawadi]

Hi there,

I would like to install ODK Central on my Windows 10 localhost using docker (purely for testing purposes). I know it's possible but I'm not sure if the ODK Collect app could be connected with the Central installed on my localhost which is not accessible from the internet?

I can try installing central on a free trial digital ocean droplet but I'm interested to test it on my localhost.

Thanks,
Kumail

[Aurelien_Xavier]

Hello, you can do it using docker locally through docker-compose hope this help

[mkjawadi]

@Aurelien_Xavier, Of course I can do it using docker but my question is how can I connect the ODK Collect android app which is installed on my mobile with the local ODK Central?

[Matthew_White]

Hi @mkjawadi! I think this topic is relevant to your question:

SSL issue with Central on my internal network

It sounds like @mathieubossaert doesn't need to do form submission for his testing so this isn't as important but I still wanted to follow up because I learned some things discussing with @issa and @Matthew_White. Using ngrok does work when using the development environment (no Docker). One additional thing to note is that the config/default.json file in the backend folder will need to be modified. In env, domain will need to be set to the public ngrok address. However, using ngrok is not poss…