This looks like an Ensembl problem, because they are prefixing the redirect url with "http://www.ensembl.org/". If you just go to http://galaxy-dev.fmi.ch/tool_runner/biomart?type=text&name=Homo%20sapiens%20genes%20%28GRCh38.p5%29&URL=http://www.ensembl.org/biomart/martview/7ee294b9ae51a27f1e7ed96e712c5792?do_export=1&resultsButton=1 it will most probably work.

They might be whitelisting usegalaxy.org to not add prefix, or some other bug, I will try contacting them, thank you for the report.

Martin

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 11:19 AM Hans-Rudolf Hotz <hrh@fmi.ch> wrote:

Hi Martin

we are still on "15.10" (minor version "2")

However, I see the same issues on other public galaxy server which are
already on 16.04


http://www.ensembl.org/galaxy-dev.fmi.ch/tool_runner/biomart?type=text&name=Homo%20sapiens%20genes%20%28GRCh38.p5%29&URL=http://www.ensembl.org/biomart/martview/7ee294b9ae51a27f1e7ed96e712c5792?do_export=1&resultsButton=1



Hans-Rudolf


On 06/08/2016 04:36 PM, Martin Čech wrote:
> Hello Hans-Rudolf,
>
> What version of Galaxy are you using? Can you please share a specific
> URL you were sent to that returns a 404?
>
> thanks
>
> M.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 4:53 AM Hans-Rudolf Hotz <hrh@fmi.ch
> <mailto:hrh@fmi.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all
>
>     Please allow me to come back to this old problem:
>
>     On usegalaxy.org <http://usegalaxy.org>, the tool is now pointing to
>     http://www.ensembl.org/biomart/martview (see also:
>     https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/commit/c49e7803fa1814abd04afb26b54965fb7af612ac
>     ) and it seems to work, i.e stuff is sent to usegalaxy.org
>     <http://usegalaxy.org>.
>
>     If I try to do the same on our local galaxy server, I still run into the
>     same problem as last November: the requests are not send to Galaxy, but
>     end up on the ensembl web page, where they cause a "Error 404 - Page not
>     found".
>
>     Is there anything else, I need to change?
>
>
>     Thank you very much for your help
>     Hans-Rudolf
>
>
>
>     On 11/17/2015 08:40 AM, Hans-Rudolf Hotz wrote:
>      > Hi
>      >
>      > As you probably know, the central BioMart server is currently
>      > unavailable (see: http://www.biomart.org/notice.html). Hence, the
>     "Get
>      > Data -> BioMart Central server" tool in our local Galaxy installation
>      > does not work anymore - well, this is also the case on
>     usegalaxy.org <http://usegalaxy.org>.
>      >
>      >
>      > We can easily switch the tool to point to a different Mart
>     server, i.e.:
>      >
>      > Change: <inputs action="http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martview" ....
>      >
>      > to: <inputs
>     action="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/uniprot/biomart/martview" ....
>      >
>      >
>      > However, we would like to switch to the ensembl Mart server:
>      >
>      > http://www.ensembl.org/biomart/martview
>      >
>      >
>      > It looks like the ensembl Mart server is nowadays embedded in the
>      > ensembl web site, and the requests are not send to Galaxy, but
>     end up on
>      > the ensembl web page, where they cause a "Error 404 - Page not
>     found".
>      > Unfortunately, I am not that savvy about the inner works of the
>     ensembl
>      > web site anymore ;)
>      >
>      >
>      > Has anyone else looked into this problem and found already a
>     solution?
>      >
>      > Thank you very much for any help
>      >
>      >
>      > Hans-Rudolf
>      >
>      >
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