wiki:Molgenis-connect

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Molgenis-connect

Molgenis-connect is available as a service running at ​http://molgenis.org/molgenis-connect

The source code can be downloaded fromhttps://github.com/molgenis/molgenis/releases/tag/v1.15.0, which can be adapted and used locally as open source under the LGPLv3 license

How to deploy Molgenis-connect in tomcat 7


Step 1 - get tomcat 7


Step 2 - get Molgenis-connect war


Step 3 - configure Molgenis-connect property file

  • Create the directory ~/.molgenis/molgenis-connect and create a file called molgenis-server.properties in this folder (~ is your home folder)
  • Add user and database properties to this file, such as this example: 
    db_user=molgenis
db_password=molgenis
db_uri=jdbc:mysql://localhost/molgenis-connect
admin.password=admin
user.password=admin
  • If these properties are not present, Molgenis-connect will not start. This properties-file should be in your home folder, if the file is not there yet, just create it.


Step 4 - configure tomcat 7

  • Create a file called setenv.sh in apache-tomcat-7.0.67/bin/
  • Add the configuration to the file, such as this example: 
    CATALINA_OPTS="-Xmx2g -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -Dmolgenis.home=~/.molgenis/molgenis-connect"


Step 5 - deploy Molgenis-connect in tomcat 7

  • Unzip apache-tomcat-7.0.67.tar.gz
  • Move Molgenis-connect.war to apache-tomcat-7.0.67/webapps/
  • Rename Molgenis-connect.war to ROOT.war
  • start up tomcat 
    sh apache-tomcat-7.[version.number]/bin/catalina.sh start