[ensembl-dev] Installing ensembl site

[Ed Gray]

Duarte,What version of Ubuntu?  14.04 is typically a big problem with older LAMP architecture install instructions.Ed

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From: Duarte Molha <duartemolha at gmail.com>
Date: 06/29/2015  5:56 AM  (GMT-05:00)
To: Ensembl <dev at ensembl.org>
Subject: [ensembl-dev] Installing ensembl site

Dear Ensembl Devs

Your manual to how to install a local version of your ensembl site are
woefully incomplete and out ot date.

Is there any willingness of fixing these instructions?

A few of my remarks:

http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/install/non-ensembl-code.html

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.

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

sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2

?

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.


http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/install/ensembl-code.html

git ensembl --clone api
git ensembl --clone web

The instructions above are incorrect

I think they should be :

git-ensembl --clone api
git-ensembl --clone web

correct me if I am wrong, please.


http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/mirror/running.html

As indicated before, these instructions assume a non-standard apache setup.
At least in debian and ubuntu ... there is no httpd command

apache2 server is started using the command :

sudo apache2ctl start


I hope this has highlighted a few of the difficulties with your
documentation
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.

Best regards

Duarte



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     Duarte Miguel Paulo Molha
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