Plugins can be hosted on a webserver running on a virtual machine either on-premises or on cloud.

The mobile device or browser needs to be able to reach and communicate with the server hosting the plugin files.

Please refer to the documentation of the webserver of choice on how setup and host the static content. The unzipped files of the plugin is then hosted on the webserver. The path to the index.html or the directory containing the index.html is configured in the URL field of the plugin screen as defined in https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/field-service/index.html.

The externally hosted plugin can be secured and Oracle Field Service supports authentication mechanism as defined in https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/field-service/index.html#Authentication-25E75B9D.