Step 1 — Install Director on Your Origin Server

On the server you want to protect, open an Administrator (Windows) or root (Linux) shell and run the installer for your operating system.

Windows (PowerShell)Linux (Bash)

Run PowerShell as Administrator, then:

iwr -UseBasicParsing https://gatewaysentry.com/director/win | iex

curl https://gatewaysentry.com/director/linux | sudo bash

The installer will:

1. Check that Python 3 is available.
2. Download director.py to a system location.
3. Create the gs-director command, available from any shell.
4. Register Director to run in the background (a scheduled task on Windows, a service on Linux).

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