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Install Cytomine

Step 1 - Retrieve Cytomine-bootstrap

First of all, we retrieve the Cytomine-bootstrap installation procedure.

1.1 Install latest official release from Cytomine cooperative

If you want to install the last official release, copy/paste these commands:

mkdir Cytomine_src/
cd Cytomine_src/
wget https://github.com/cytomine/Cytomine-bootstrap/archive/master.zip -O bootstrap.zip
unzip bootstrap.zip
mv Cytomine-bootstrap-master Cytomine-bootstrap

1.2 Install latest release with last developments from Cytomine ULiege

To install Cytomine with the last features from ULiège research team, copy/paste these commands:

sudo apt-get install git
mkdir Cytomine_src/
cd Cytomine_src/
git clone https://github.com/Cytomine-ULiege/Cytomine-bootstrap.git
cd Cytomine-bootstrap

Step 2 - Install Docker

Then, we need to install the Docker engine.

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If needed, you will find a complete documentation on the official site.

Step 3 - Configure Cytomine installation

Now, it is required to edit the Cytomine file configuration.sh in the Cytomine-bootstrap/ directory to prepare the installation of Cytomine Docker containers, using e.g.:

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You have two deployment options:

3.1 If you want to deploy on a local host :

First of all, the variables "XXX_URL" will not be visible outside of your local server. So, due to the Docker architecture (isolation of the Docker's containers), we need to apply some changes to authorize network communication between our IMS and CORE containers (see below for further details). To do so, add these URL values (CORE_URL, IMS_URLS, UPLOAD_URL, RETRIEVAL_URL) to your /etc/hosts file with the following format : "127.0.0.1       XXX_URL".

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NB : Please be careful that some problems might appear if you use localhost instead of CORE_URL for a connection to Cytomine. So, keep using CORE_URL.

3.2 If you want to make your Cytomine instance accessible from anywhere :

Contact your institutional system/network administrator before installing Cytomine so that they create DNS entries and make their HTTP port (80) accessible for CORE_URL, IMS_URLS and UPLOAD_URL.

Detailed explanation of configuration options

The following tables explain how to configure your installation. 

For a basic, simple installation, you need to configure only the mandatory variables.

URLS

Please use URLs that are not already present in your /etc/hosts file to avoid conflicts.

Storage Paths

You have to choose existing paths on an available filesystem where image files will be stored. Please note you have to specify paths without a "/" at the end (e.g. "/data", not "/data/").

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IRIS

Other advanced configuration

Step 4 - Deploy Cytomine

Then, you can generate your installation file and deploy Cytomine. Run following commands in the Bootstrap directory:

sudo bash init.sh
sudo bash start_deploy.sh

Step 5 - Install test data (optional) - temporary unavailable

At the end of the installation we recommend to install test data (which takes roughly 30 additional minutes) in order to follow examples from our user guide.

Step 6 - Contact us and cite us (optional)

We kindly ask you to cite our (Marée et al., Bionformatics 2016) paper and website (http://www.cytomine.be/) when using Cytomine in your work.

Please also consider contacting us to let us know who you are and why you are using Cytomine.

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Troubleshooting

In case of problems, see page Known problems of v1.0 (and specially the entry "Error : postgis_data not found/not started").

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Please note that server components might take one or two minutes to boot the first time (which will generate a "502 Bad Gateway message" or the browser to wait for a reponse). 

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How to test your installation.

You can log into Cytomine through the http://CORE_URL (by default: http://localhost-core/) in your web browser using the admin session (the password was asked during installation). If you did not install the "test data", you will have an empty instance. You have to create a project, users, ...

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# Root logger option
log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, stdout
 
# Direct log messages to stdout
log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
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How to update your installation.

Docker is also used to easily update your Cytomine installation.

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How to uninstall Cytomine.

Please let us know why Cytomine does not meet your expectations.

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