<div dir="ltr">Hi Steve<div><br></div><div>I was hoping that since updating the documentation on how to set up a ensembl mirror is in your list of high priorities you would have done this on the 81 release... Any chance it might still be done in a near future?</div><div>Maybe someone with more experience than me might be able to use their own experience and fill in the gaps/errors in your instructions and setup their system.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I was hopping , since this is a priority that this would have been updated with the new release... but it hasn't.</div><div><br></div><div><div>I would really like to be able to set up my own system but the current instructions are simply not fit-for-purpose.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div><br></div><div>Duarte</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><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>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 June 2015 at 12:26, Steve Trevanion <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@ebi.ac.uk" target="_blank">steve@ebi.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Duarte,<br>
<br>
Sorry to hear you are having problems. We are aware that the
documentation is out of date and needs reviewing and it is high on
our list of priorities. Having your feedback about the issues you're
facing will be useful when we come to do that.<br>
<br>
See below for a couple of comments,<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Steve<span class=""><br>
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<div>On 29/06/15 10:56, Duarte Molha wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Ensembl Devs
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<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>
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<div><a href="http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/install/non-ensembl-code.html" target="_blank">http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/install/non-ensembl-code.html</a><br>
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<div><br>
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<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>
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<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>
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Does setting the $APACHE_DIR help ?<span class=""><br>
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<div><a href="http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/install/ensembl-code.html" target="_blank">http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/install/ensembl-code.html</a><br>
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<div>
<pre 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>
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<div>The instructions above are incorrect</div>
<div><br>
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<div>I think they should be :</div>
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<pre 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>
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<div>correct me if I am wrong, please.</div>
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The instructions are correct - have you checked out ensembl-git-tool
?<br>
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<div><br>
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<div><a href="http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/running.html" target="_blank">http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/running.html</a><br>
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<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>
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<div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#999999">=========================<br>
Duarte Miguel Paulo Molha <br>
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