^^ can not be left blank. Any value should work.

The folder setup/structure for /som/galaxy/users/ looks like so.

   /som/galaxy/users/aebrenne

   /som/galaxy/users/panteater

   .....

Both aebrenne and panteater are users within Galaxy, they just have the @domain.tld part left out. If the folders contain no files, then nothing will be displayed in Galaxy. It does support nested folders, etc...

Hopefully that helps,

-Adam

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Adam Brenner
Computer Science, Undergraduate Student
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

Research Computing Support
Office of Information Technology
http://www.oit.uci.edu/rcs/

University of California, Irvine
www.ics.uci.edu/~aebrenne/
aebrenne@uci.edu


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Jillian Rowe <jir2004@qatar-med.cornell.edu> wrote:
> Well, I just tried as the root user and it still doesn't see them. I'm sure root has access everywhere.
> ________________________________________
> From: Adam Brenner [aebrenne@uci.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10:13 AM
> To: Jillian Rowe
> Cc: galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu
> Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] Problem using FTP upload
>
> Um... Lets see Jillian. Can the user who is running the Galaxy process
> access the folders in question? Whats the chown/chmod on the folders?
>
> --
> Adam Brenner
> Computer Science, Undergraduate Student
> Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
>
> Research Computing Support
> Office of Information Technology
> http://www.oit.uci.edu/rcs/
>
> University of California, Irvine
> www.ics.uci.edu/~aebrenne/
> aebrenne@uci.edu
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Jillian Rowe
> <jir2004@qatar-med.cornell.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> Nope, still getting the 'no files found'. Is there any troubleshooting tips you could give me for file permissions?
>>
>> Best,
>> Jillian
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Adam Brenner [aebrenne@uci.edu]
>> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 9:42 PM
>> To: Jillian Rowe
>> Cc: galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu
>> Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] Problem using FTP upload
>>
>> Jillian,
>>
>> Make sure import/users is the full path. IE: /storage/import/users.
>>
>> If you are using the add-on provided by Jon in:
>> http://dev.list.galaxyproject.org/user-names-with-authentication-td4659271.html
>> make sure you add:
>>
>> ftp_upload_dir_identifier = username
>>
>> to universe_wsgi.ini. Save and restart.
>>
>>
>> We have the same setup on our HPC cluster. Users copy their data to
>> the large storage bricks via scp, rsync, etc...
>>
>> --
>> Adam Brenner
>> Computer Science, Undergraduate Student
>> Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
>>
>> Research Computing Support
>> Office of Information Technology
>> http://www.oit.uci.edu/rcs/
>>
>> University of California, Irvine
>> www.ics.uci.edu/~aebrenne/
>> aebrenne@uci.edu
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Jillian Rowe
>> <jir2004@qatar-med.cornell.edu> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to use the FTP upload option without actually having an FTP service setup. Instead users will scp to the directory.
>>>
>>> ftp_upload_dir = import/users
>>> ftp_upload_site = notnothing
>>>
>>> if a create a import/users/username with username as my login I still get the message:
>>>
>>> Your FTP upload directory contains no files.
>>> This Galaxy server allows you to upload files via FTP. To upload some files, log in to the FTP server at localhost using your Galaxy credentials (email address and password).
>>>
>>> According to this email tot he mailing list http://gmod.827538.n3.nabble.com/Configuring-Galaxy-for-FTP-upload-td3934194.html I thought I could do a setup such as I am trying now, but now I am not so sure.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Jillian
>>>
>>>
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