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google-chromegoogle-chrome-extensionregistry
Wesley Smith
Wesley Smith

Reputation: 19571

Installing self hosted chrome extension

We have created a chrome extension for our Team Members and we want to self host it.

I am aware of the non-web store install policies and I feel like I have set this up correctly but it does not work.

Here is what I have:

I set up my manifest with an update url and an extension id key like this:

{
  "update_url": "https://ourownserver.com/extensions/updates.xml",
  "key":"obljkonioibfihfjbaiidbobmckpkned",
 ....
}

I created updates.xml like this:

<gupdate xmlns="http://www.google.com/update2/response" protocol="2.0">
    <app appid="obljkonioibfihfjbaiidbobmckpkned">
        <updatecheck codebase="some-extension.crx" version="3.6"/>
    </app>
</gupdate>

I used the chrome://extensions to package the .crx and .pem files and droped them all into https://ourownserver.com/extensions/ like this:

;

I used regedit to add the ExtensionInstallWhitelist and ExtensionInstallSources under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE as follows:

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I then closed Chrome and re-opened it

After doing all of this, I expect that going to https://ourownserver.com/extensions/extensionName.crx will instal the extension and that it will be enabled. However, if I go https://ourownserver.com/extensions/extensionName.crx I still get:

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And on the extensions tab, it is installed but disabled and has this message:

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Im thinking that I have not added the registry entries correctly but I cant find a more detailed walkthrough to be sure.

What am I doing wrong here?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3726

Answers (1)

dan
dan

Reputation: 1984

Your update XML needs to contain the absolute path of the extension CRX, rather than the relative one. For example:

<gupdate xmlns="http://www.google.com/update2/response" protocol="2.0">
    <app appid="obljkonioibfihfjbaiidbobmckpkned">
        <updatecheck codebase="https://ourownserver.com/extensions/some-extension.crx" version="3.6"/>
    </app>
</gupdate>

Upvotes: 2

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