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User Hosted PGA with SciGaP in Ubuntu OS

Prerequisites

1. Requires a Unix or Unix like operating system
2. Requires a web server (e.g apache web server) with PHP 5.4 or higher. Make sure have enabled mod_rewrite module in httpd.conf file and enable PHP SOAP extension
3. Install Composer
4. MYSQL database installation
5. MCrypt PHP extension

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Open the default vhost config file:

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1. sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. 
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1. Now search for “AllowOverride None”  corresponding “DocumentRoot /var/www <Directory /var/www>” (which should be there TWO times) and change both to “AllowOverride All“. Search for these two lines.
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1. Exit and save with CTRL+X, Y, ENTER.

Download Pga from GIT

1. Download PGA from github to the document root of you web server /var/www.

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2. Use git clone https://github.com/apache/airavata-php-gateway.git or download the zip from the github web page.
3. Go inside the PGA directory (e.g /var/www/airavata-php-gateway)
4. Make sure the storage folder is writable

    

   1. 1. sudo chmod -R 777 app/storage
   2. Go to [PGA_HOME]/app/config/pga_config.php and change the configuration to match your settings
      

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   1. NOTE: this file will be removed in the future. So this will not be needed

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   1. Create a copy of app/config/app_config.ini.template file as app/config/app_config.ini

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   1. 1. sudo cp  app/config/app_config.ini.template file as app/config/app_config.ini
   2. Now issue composer install command

       

      1. 1. sudo composer update
      2. Restart the web server

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      1. 1. sudo service apache2 restart