Maintenance¶
Please read OMERO.web maintenance.
OMERO.web installation on Mac OS X and IcePy 3.6¶
Please first read OMERO.server installation on OS X with Homebrew.
This is an example walkthrough for installing OMERO.web decoupled from the OMERO.server in a virtual environment using OMERO.py and a dedicated system user. Installing OMERO.web in a virtual environment is the preferred way. For convenience in this walkthrough, we will use the ** system user** and define the main OMERO.web configuration options as environment variables.
The following steps are run as root.
Install Homebrew in /usr/local:
xcode-select --install
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew update
brew doctor
Installing prerequisites¶
Install dependencies:
brew install python
brew install nginx
pip install --upgrade virtualenv
Creating virtual environment¶
Create the virtual environment. This is the preferred way to install OMERO.web:
# option 1: in a virtual environment with --system-site-packages on
virtualenv ~/omerowebvenv --system-site-packages
# option 2: in a virtual environment with --system-site-packages off
virtualenv ~/omerowebvenv
Installing OMERO.web¶
Install OMERO.web using OMERO.py:
cd ~
curl -o OMERO.py.zip -L https://downloads.openmicroscopy.org/latest/omero5/py.zip
unzip -q OMERO.py*
zip=$(ls OMERO.py*.zip)
rm -f $zip
ln -s OMERO.py-* OMERO.py
The following steps are run as root.
Install the OMERO.web requirements. Select one of the commands corresponding to the way you have opted to install it:
# option 1: in a virtual environment with --system-site-packages on
~/omerowebvenv/bin/pip install --upgrade -r ~/OMERO.py/share/web/requirements-py27.txt
# option 2: in a virtual environment with --system-site-packages off
~/omerowebvenv/bin/pip install --upgrade -r ~/OMERO.py/share/web/requirements-py27-all.txt
Configuring OMERO.web¶
For convenience the main OMERO.web configuration options have been defined as environment variables. You can either use your own values, or alternatively use the following ones:
export WEBPORT=80
export WEBSERVER_NAME=localhost
Configure OMERO.web and create the NGINX OMERO configuration file:
. ~/omerowebvenv/bin/activate
~/OMERO.py/bin/omero config set omero.web.application_server wsgi-tcp
~/OMERO.py/bin/omero web config nginx --http "${WEBPORT}" --servername "${WEBSERVER_NAME}" > ~/nginx.conf.tmp
For more customization, please read Customizing your OMERO.web installation.
Configuring NGINX¶
Copy the generated configuration file into the NGINX configuration directory:
cp ~/nginx.conf.tmp /usr/local/etc/nginx/servers/omeroweb-nginx.conf
# Restart webserver
brew services restart nginx
Running OMERO.web¶
To start the OMERO.web client manually run:
. ~/omerowebvenv/bin/activate
~/OMERO.py/bin/omero web start
Start up services:
source ~/omerowebvenv/bin/activate
# Start OMERO.web
~/OMERO.py/bin/omero web start
