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==Apache Modifications==

On the amazon instance that you want to turn into a genome browser,
add ucsc.conf to the directory <B>/etc/httpd/conf.d</B> and turn
off the vhosts
 # cd /etc/httpd/conf.d
 # mv vhosts.conf vhosts.conf.0
 # cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/ucsc.conf
 #
 # Executable files will be processed for SSI
 #
 XBitHack on

Alterations to <B>/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf</B> for the options to Directory /var/www/html
 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Includes

Change ReadmeName and HeaderName to:
 ReadmeName FOOTER
 HeaderName README

Add handler:
 AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

Add UCSC error documents:
 ErrorDocument 403 /admin/403.html
 ErrorDocument 404 /admin/404.html
 ErrorDocument 500 /admin/500.html

And turn off VirtualHost business, comment this line out:
 # NameVirtualHost *:80

Fetch UCSC html hierarchy:
 # cd /var/www/html
 # rsync -avzP rsync://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/htdocs/ ./

Start Apache:
 # cd /etc/init.d
 # ./httpd start

Can now open URL to top-level page to see index.html
The Browser will not yet work, other items need to be
installed, MySQL and /gbdb/ business in particular.

==User Accounts==

Create group for browser development:
 # groupadd -g 83492 ucscbrowser

Create user for browser development:
 # useradd -c "UCSC Genome Browser Development" -d /home/browserdev \
      -g ucscbrowser -m -u 29438 -n -s /bin/bash browserdev

Set a password for that user, expires in 90 days:
 # passwd browserdev
 # passwd -x 90 browserdev

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