Introduction

The Simian Portal Server is an application written in PHP 8.

The Portal Server has the following main tasks:

  1. Web based Admin Portal for:
    • Configuring deployed applications
    • Managing application access
    • Managing available front-end versions
    • Providing log access
  2. Web based User Portal for:
    • Listing the authorized applications and relevant information
  3. Deliver "static" content (the generic frontend application versions) to the client browser
  4. Manage user sessions including:
    • Authentication/authorization
    • Mapping of application instances to the appropriate back-end endpoints
    • Data flow

Configurations are stored in a json file and, if applicable, configuration/application specific data in additional supporting files.

No SQL database is required.