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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 16.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Bioinformatics. 2008 Sep;CHAPTER:Unit–9.11. doi: 10.1002/0471250953.bi0911s23

Table 9.11.1.

Required Parameters in the install conf Filea

Parameter Description
TOMCAT_SERVER [nematoda.bio.nyu.edu] Domain name of the Tomcat Web server. This will serve as
the base URL for HTTP connections.
TOMCAT_PORT [8180] Port number for Tomcat HTTP connections. The default
port for Tomcat5 is 8180.
TOMCAT_WEBAPPS_PATH
[/var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/]
Physical (directory) location of the Tomcat Web application
in the file system. The default location for Tomcat5 is
/var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/.
TOMCAT_APP_FOLDER [NBrowse] Directory name to be used for the N-Browse Web
application. If you plan to run multiple N-Browse servers
on the same machine, this name can be customized to
distinguish different instances.
MYSQL_SERVER [localhost] MySQL server location for database connections. If the
server resides on the same machine as the N-Browse server
package, you can use “localhost.” If the database resides on
a different machine, a domain name is required to make
remote database connections.
MYSQL_PORT [3306] MySQL server port number. You can leave it empty if you
connect to “localhost” (MySQL default setting).
MYSQL_DATABASE_NAME [nbrowse] Name of the MySQL database containing the N-Browse
database schema (see Basic Protocol 4).
MYSQL_USERNAME [handler] MySQL username that the N-Browse package will use as a
handler for database connections.
MYSQL_PASSWORD [] MySQL password for the above MySQL user. It can be
empty if the MySQL user has no password.
INSTALL_CYTOSCAPE_AUTOLAUNCH [Y/N] Choose Y (yes) or N (no) to set up the Cytoscape
auto-launch function. If Y, the next 3 parameters must be
specified (JNLP_CODEBASE, JAVA_LOCATION, and CYJNLP_LOCATION).
JNLP_CODEBASE
[nematoda.bio.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/nbTest/]
Web address (URL) for a directory on the N-Browse server
machine in which Perl CGI scripts have permission to run
(specified in Tomcat or Apache config files). This is
essential to create the files for Cytoscape auto-launch.
JAVA_LOCATION[/usr/bin/] Physical (directory) location of the JAVA binary.
CYJNLP_LOCATION
[/usr/lib/cgi-bin/nbTest/]
Physical (directory) location of the Perl CGI scripts
required for Cytoscape auto-launch.
WEBSITEHOSTBY [NYU Center for Genomics
& Systems Biology]
Text for customizing the N-Browse Web site at your
institution, to be displayed in an iFrame container at the top
of the N-Browse Web pages at your site. If desired, you can
further customize the Web site (with graphics etc.) by
directly editing the HTML code in
the containerInfo.html file included in the
distribution.
a

These parameters must be customized for your server machine prior to N-Browse installation. Example values for each parameter are provided in square brackets.