<div dir="ltr">Dear Ensembl Devs<div><br></div><div>Your manual to how to install a local version of your ensembl site are woefully incomplete and out ot date.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there any willingness of fixing these instructions?</div><div><br></div><div>A few of my remarks:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/install/non-ensembl-code.html">http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/install/non-ensembl-code.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The description on how to build configure and install and configure Apache server and mod_perl are incomplete and even my attempts at following the steps on my debian server simply fail due to missing dependencies.</div><div><br></div><div>Given most people will be running servers on debian and ubuntu and similar servers it would be very welcome a more targeted approach to the usual default configuration of systems after after a simple</div><div><div><br></div><div>sudo apt-get install git</div></div><div>sudo apt-get install apache2<br></div><div><div>sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>?</div><div><br></div><div>This is the way I have opted to install git, apache and mod_perl and I think because if it, I still have not been able to setup the site properly because your setup assumes wrong folder locations for many of the apache2 configuration files installed in this manner.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/install/ensembl-code.html">http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/install/ensembl-code.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><pre class="" style="font-family:'Courier New',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);overflow:auto;line-height:16px;color:rgb(85,85,85);padding:8px!important;background:rgb(240,240,240)">git ensembl --clone api
git ensembl --clone web</pre></div><div>The instructions above are incorrect</div><div><br></div><div>I think they should be :</div><div><br></div><div><pre class="" style="font-family:'Courier New',Courier,monospace;font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);overflow:auto;line-height:16px;color:rgb(85,85,85);padding:8px!important;background:rgb(240,240,240)">git-ensembl --clone api
git-ensembl --clone web</pre></div><div>correct me if I am wrong, please.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/running.html">http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/running.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>As indicated before, these instructions assume a non-standard apache setup.</div><div>At least in debian and ubuntu ... there is no httpd command</div><div><br></div><div>apache2 server is started using the command :</div><div><br></div><div><div>sudo apache2ctl start</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I hope this has highlighted a few of the difficulties with your documentation</div><div>Maybe these are problems only to newbies like me... but at least, maybe they can help other that are also experiencing difficulties following your manual.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div><br></div><div>Duarte</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#999999">=========================<br> Duarte Miguel Paulo Molha <br></font><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#999999"> <a href="http://about.me/duarte" target="_blank">http://about.me/duarte</a> <br>=========================</font></div></div></div>
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