[ome-users] Moving OME to a new machine

[Graham Klyne]

Chris,

Thanks!

I assume step 3 is run in psql, and is the key to changing the OMEIS URI?

#g
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At 16:11 14/07/05 +0100, Chris Allan wrote:

>______
>Step 1
>
>Move your OME root directory over to the new machine.
>
>______
>Step 2
>
>Dump the database and restore on the new machine using pg_dump and pg_restore.
>
>______
>Step 3
>
>UPDATE repositories SET image_server_url 'http://newhost/cgi-bin/omeis' 
>WHERE attribute_id $id;
>
>______
>Step 4
>
>Add OME Apache directives to httpd.conf.
>
>This of course assumes many things like the architecture of the two
>machines being the same, the GLIBC versions being the same, etc. If
>they're not you'll want to run the installer after Step 3.
>
>Ciao.
>
>-Chris
>
>On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 03:34:27PM +0100, Graham Klyne wrote:
> > I have found a rather drastic answer to my own question...
> >
> > I use psql to "DROP DATABASE ome ;", then re-run the OME installation
> > script to re-create the OME database.
> >
> > (I can't help feeling the OMEIS host domain name should not be embedded so
> > thoroughly in the database, or if it is that there should be an easy 
> way to
> > change it, without ditching all the database contents.)
> >
> > #g
> > --
> >
> > At 12:42 14/07/05 +0100, Graham Klyne wrote:
> >
> > >I'm trying to move an installed OME system from one host to another.
> > >
> > >It seems that the original host name for the image server is lodged
> > >somewhere in the OME installation, causing a failure when the 
> installation
> > >script tries to perform tests preparatory to installing the image server.
> > >
> > >Even if I try to re-install from scratch on a new machine (being a
> > >complete copy of the originally installed system), having first deleted
> > >the file /etc/ome-install.store, I am getting this problem, and changed
> > >the host name and IP address for the new machine.
> > >
> > >What do I have to do to make OME forget it was once installed on a
> > >different hostname?
> > >
> > >#g
> > >
> > >
> > >---
> > >Graham Klyne
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Graham Klyne
Image Bioinformatics Research Group (http://www.bioimage.org/)
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
E-mail: <Graham.Klyne at zoo.ox.ac.uk>
Direct phone: +44-(0)1865-281991
Departmental fax: +44-(0)1865-310447