Hi Hans,
We did have a look at this but couldn't get it to work. But will try again.
Thanks for the pointer,
Steve
>
> I noticed the recent update to Galaxy that allowed users to put data on
> the galaxy FTP server and then import it into their history.
>
> Would it be possible to use a similar mechanism to import data from the
> galaxy host file system but not use an FTP daemon? In our case we we
> would like to mount a volume to the galaxy file server and allow people
> to cp or mv data into it and then be able to import the data into their
> history.
Have you looked into "Data Libraries" ? There is also an option to allow
uploading files by a non-admin user.
For details see the "# -- Data Libraries" section in the
'universe_wsgi.ini' file.
Regards, Hans
> For example, In the context of the example at
>
http://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/Config/UploadViaFTP
> could you set up a directory called
> '/home/nate/galaxy_dist/database/localfs/' instead of
> '/home/nate/galaxy_dist/database/ftp/' which contained email named
> directories and the files in these in these would be available to import
> via the upload UI? Or is it all tied into FTP?
>
> Thanks for any advice,
>
> Steve
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