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How to set up your InterMine environment on the Amazon Cloud

Where you should learn how to start your own MalariaMine web application on the Amazon Cloud. You could also use your InterMine Amazon instance to try building MalariaMine yourself (see http://intermine.readthedocs.org/en/latest/get-started/tutorial.html) or to build your own mine there.

Pre-requisites

You need an Amazon account: if you don’t have one

Note

You will need to set up your key pair security mechanism (see for example step 7 below). Alternatively you will need your aws-access-key and your aws-secret-key to start your instance (not shown here).

Starting a new Instance

InterMine is publicly available on Amazon Cloud as an Image (AMI), with an AMI ID ami-b1c7a9d8.

The image contains a ready deployed MalariaMine.

  1. sign in at http://aws.amazon.com
  2. go to the EC2 management console AWS console https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home –> EC2 console
  3. if you don’t have one, set up a security group which allows access at least to port
  • 22 (SSH)
  • 80 (HTTP)
  • 8080 (TOMCAT)

you could set up also a few spare ones (20, 21, 8009).

Note

You can do this also during step 7, but you cannot change the security group of an instance after starting it for the first time (unless you use a VPC instance, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_Introduction.html).

  1. go to the IMAGES/AMI console
  2. set the location on the top header (beside your username) to US East (N. Virginia)
  3. set the filter to Public Images and search for InterMine
  4. select BasicIntermine AMI (AMI ID = ami-b1c7a9d8)
  5. launch (and configure) instance
  • you can use all default options for the instance characteristics and details, but use the security group you created in step 3.
  • when prompted, create a new key pair (.pem file), or use one that you already own.
  1. go to the Instance console
  2. select your new instance
  3. when public DNS appears (after checks, a couple of minutes), you can open a terminal with
$ ssh -i your_pem_file ubuntu@the_instance_public_DNS

Starting an existing Instance

If you are using an existing Instance, you need to

  1. sign in at http://aws.amazon.com
  2. go to the EC2 console (see step 2 above)
  3. go to the Instance console
  4. select your instance
  5. start your instance (Actions –> Start)

Working with Your Instance

Open a terminal in Your Instance

$ ssh -i your_pem_file ubuntu@the_instance_public_DNS

you will land in /home/ubuntu

here you can find these relevant directories:

git/intermine the InterMine code base

.intermine with the properties file

malaria sources for building MalariaMine

Starting/stopping the existing MalariaMine web application

In /webapp you’ll find tomcat6. You can start the webapp using this command:

$ ./start.sh

Your BioTestMine web application will be then available on

To stop the web application:

$ ./stop.sh

Redeploying MalariaMine

In /home/ubuntu/git/intermine/malariamine/webapp

$ ant -v default remove-webapp release-webapp

(Re)building MalariaMine

see http://intermine.readthedocs.org/en/latest/get-started/tutorial/

In /home/ubuntu/git/intermine/malariamine

$ ../bio/scripts/project_build -b -v localhost ~/malariamine-dump

You can also follow all the steps in the build as illustrated in Tutorial