Version: 5.0.0

How to set up your InterMine environment on the Amazon Cloud

This is 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 or to build your own mine there.

Pre-requisites#

You need an Amazon account. If you don't have one:

You will need to set up your key pair security mechanism (see step 7 below for an example). 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. To start a new instance:

  1. Sign in at http://aws.amazon.com.

  2. Go to the EC2 management console by following these steps:

    AWS console --> https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home --> EC2 console.

  3. Set up a security group (if you don't have one) which allows access

    to at least ports:

    • 22 (SSH)
    • 80 (HTTP)
    • 8080 (TOMCAT)

    you could also set up 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 User Guide).

  4. Go to the IMAGES/AMI console.

  5. Set the location on the top header (beside your username) to US

    East (N. Virginia).

  6. Set the filter to Public Images and search for InterMine.

  7. Select BasicIntermine AMI (AMI ID = ami-b1c7a9d8).

  8. 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.

  9. Go to the Instance console.

  10. Select your new instance.

  11. 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 then be available on

http://the_instance_public_DNS:8080/malariamine

To stop the web application, use this command:

$ ./stop.sh

Redeploying MalariaMine#

In /home/ubuntu/git/intermine/malariamine/webapp, use this command:

$ 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, use this command:

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

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

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