Perhaps someone else will find this of interest. As it turned out, we
didn't need FTP for a local server. Instead, one can set an option in
universe_wsgi.ini (or universe_wsgi.webapp.ini if you are running
multiple web server processes) to allow regular users to upload a set of
files from a file system into a data library. Thus we have set up a
drop box on a shared drive, with a subfolder for each user, where they
can put their files, and gave each user their own data library in Galaxy
where those files can be uploaded. The drop box folder is mounted on
the Galaxy server.
The option in universe_wsgi.webapp.ini is:
user_library_import_dir = /mnt/dropbox
It seems to work...
Yury
On 11/14/2011 5:25 PM, Chorny, Ilya wrote:
FTP server.
Ilya
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On Behalf Of Yury V Bukhman
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 3:01 PM
To: galaxy-user(a)lists.bx.psu.edu
Subject: [galaxy-user] enabling regular users to upload large data volumes to a local
Galaxy server
Hi,
we are running a local Galaxy server, administered by a bioinformatics core group. Our
end users increasingly come to us with sets of large NGS files that they can't upload
to Galaxy on their own through a web browser. We copy their data to a Galaxy filesystem
and upload into data libraries from there using the admin interface. However, the users
would prefer to be able get their data onto the server on their own.
What's the best solution to that? Should we set up FTP upload? Are there other
tricks? Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Yury
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