Hi Raymond,
Regarding activation, you mean you set user_activation_on = True, right? You can just leave 'user_activation_on = False', which is the default (and the value if left commented), which will disable any requirement of having a local SMTP server for user creation and won't validate the account.
If this instance is going to be a production server, I'd *strongly* recommend just starting it right now with a Postgresql database. Porting data over is not something you'll want to have to deal with.
-Dannon
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Raymond Wan rwan.work@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I just started setting up a galaxy instance and I'm a bit stuck with user account activation without e-mail. Is it possible to run Galaxy without an SMTP server set?
For example, for the administrator user, I set:
admin_users = <my e-mail>
in galaxy.ini . I'd also like to require login (i.e., require_login = True) but it seems that I can't do that from the outset. That has to be False and allow_user_creation has to be True.
Then I can create a user with the same account as above, who will then become an administrator. But, the account has to be validated some how and I can't seem to figure out how to do that without enabling an SMTP server.
Am I doing something that wasn't intended? Perhaps I must have an SMTP server set? Or are there other steps I should do to activate the administrator? The web page https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/GetGalaxy makes it look easy...so I am concerned I'm doing it all wrong...
Also, if this instance will be a production system some day, should I start using a database (Postgres or MySQL) right away and not bother with the default SQLite? Otherwise, I will have to port the data over, which the documentation implies is not an easy thing to do...
Thank you!
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