[ome-devel] Apache and MacOS X 10.9 support

[Jean-Marie Burel (Staff)]

Dear All,

One of the efforts of the OMERO 5.3.0 development work is on separating OMERO.web from the OMERO.server package.
This effort will enable, among other things, more flexibility in dependencies management and improve deployment.
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.

Unfortunately, for technical reason, we do not have any statistics for Web server usage. From the information
we managed to collect, Nginx has been the chosen option.

So please do let us know if dropping support for Apache will be a major blocker for deploying OMERO at your site.
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 https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_proxy.html.

In OMERO 5.3, we will no longer test the server deployment on Mac OS X version 10.9.
This version no longer has security support. The deployment will be tested on version 10.10, 10.11 and 10.12.
The change should have a limited impact since it is not recommended to use MacOS X for server deployment other that for development.
Mac OS X version 10.9 will still be supported for client use.

Thanks for your constant support.

Regards

The OME team


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