<div dir="ltr">Hi Jean-Marie & everyone,<div><br></div><div><div>> This effort will enable, among other things, more flexibility in</div><div>> dependencies management and improve deployment. As part of this work,</div><div>> we are considering dropping support for Apache</div></div><div><br></div><div>I think this decision makes a lot of sense -- especially if the OME team continues to pursue using Docker images as a supported way to get an OMERO system up and running in production. This would allow a much narrower focus on supported technology stacks. E.g.: the Discourse forum software (<a href="http://discourse.org/">http://discourse.org/</a>) ships as a Docker container as its sole distribution mechanism, and it works incredibly well, completely painless to get up and running, as well as offering one-click upgrades. Docker would also provide a way to deploy OMERO on Windows and macOS boxes. :-) </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Curtis</div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">--</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Curtis Rueden</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">LOCI software architect - <a href="http://loci.wisc.edu/software" target="_blank">http://loci.wisc.edu/software</a></span></div><div>ImageJ2 lead, Fiji maintainer - <span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://imagej.net/User:Rueden" target="_blank">http://imagej.net/User:Rueden</a></span></div><div>Did you know ImageJ has a forum? <a href="http://forum.imagej.net/" target="_blank">http://forum.imagej.net/</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Jean-Marie Burel (Staff) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:j.burel@dundee.ac.uk" target="_blank">j.burel@dundee.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Dear All,</div>
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<div>One of the efforts of the OMERO 5.3.0 development work is on separating OMERO.web from the OMERO.server package.</div>
<div>This effort will enable, among other things, more flexibility in dependencies management and improve deployment.</div>
<div>As part of this work, we are considering dropping support for Apache, mainly to balance resources to maintain our Continuous Integration system with core development work. There is always a tension between rapid development of new functionality and robust,
reliable testing.</div>
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<div>Unfortunately, for technical reason, we do not have any statistics for Web server usage. From the information</div>
<div>we managed to collect, Nginx has been the chosen option.</div>
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<div>So please do let us know if dropping support for Apache will be a major blocker for deploying OMERO at your site.</div>
<div>If your organisation's policies only allow Apache to be used as the external-facing web-server you should configure Apache to proxy connections to an Nginx instance running on your OMERO server i.e. use Apache as a reverse proxy. For more details see <a href="https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_proxy.html" target="_blank">https://httpd.apache.org/docs/<wbr>current/mod/mod_proxy.html</a>.</div>
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<div>In OMERO 5.3, we will no longer test the server deployment on Mac OS X version 10.9.</div>
<div>This version no longer has security support. The deployment will be tested on version 10.10, 10.11 and 10.12.</div>
<div>The change should have a limited impact since it is not recommended to use MacOS X for server deployment other that for development.</div>
<div>Mac OS X version 10.9 will still be supported for client use.</div>
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<div>Thanks for your constant support.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
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<div>The OME team</div>
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