Note
This documentation is for the new OMERO 5.3 version. See the latest OMERO 5.2.x version or the previous versions page to find documentation for the OMERO version you are using if you have not upgraded yet.
For convenience in this walkthrough the main OMERO.web configuration options have been defined as environment variables. When following this walkthrough you can either use your own values, or alternatively source the following file:
OMERO_USER=
WEBPORT=80
WEBSERVER_NAME=localhost
Install Homebrew in /usr/local:
xcode-select --install
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew update
brew doctor
Install other dependencies:
brew install python
pip install --upgrade virtualenv
Install VirtualEnv - optional (run as root):
virtualenv ~/omerowebvenv
Install OMERO.web (run as ):
cd ~
curl -o OMERO.py.zip -L https://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/latest/omero5.3/py.zip
unzip -q OMERO.py*
zip=$(ls OMERO.py*.zip)
rm -f $zip
ln -s OMERO.py-* OMERO.py
Install in the virtualenv created previously (run as root):
~/omerowebvenv/bin/pip install --upgrade -r ~/OMERO.py/share/web/requirements-py27-all.txt
Configure OMERO.web and generate nginx template (run as ):
source ~/omerowebvenv/bin/activate
# By default no value is set for WEBPREFIX but for example it can be set to /omero
if [[ $WEBPREFIX = *[!\ ]* ]]; then
~/OMERO.py/bin/omero config set omero.web.prefix "${WEBPREFIX}"
~/OMERO.py/bin/omero config set omero.web.static_url "${WEBPREFIX}/static/"
fi
~/OMERO.py/bin/omero config set omero.web.application_server wsgi-tcp
~/OMERO.py/bin/omero web config nginx --http "${WEBPORT}" --servername "${WEBSERVER_NAME}" > ~/nginx.conf.tmp
cat ~/nginx.conf.tmp
Install NGINX:
brew install nginx
cp ~/nginx.conf.tmp /usr/local/etc/nginx/servers/omeroweb-nginx.conf
# Restart webserver
brew services restart nginx
Start up services:
source ~/omerowebvenv/bin/activate
# Start OMERO.web
~/OMERO.py/bin/omero web start