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10. Start search container

Starting with version 19.05 which runs Ensembl release 93, it is necessary to start an additional container to run searches against the Ensembl database.
We anticipate adding functionality to search across additional GenomeHubs resources in future releases.
$ docker run -d \
--name genomehubs-search \
--network genomehubs-network \
-p 8884:8080 \
genomehubs/search:19.05
Optionally add a custom apache configuration file to override defaults
mkdir -p ~/genomehubs/v1/search/conf
nano ~/genomehubs/v1/search/conf/search.genomehubs.org.conf
~/genomehubs/v1/search/conf/search.genomehubs.org.conf:
Listen 8080
<VirtualHost *:8080>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule "^/lbsearch$" "/cgi-bin/lbsearch" [PT]
RewriteRule "^/autocomplete$" "/cgi-bin/autocomplete" [PT]
ServerAdmin [email protected]
ServerName search.genomehubs.org
ServerAlias search.genomehubs.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/search.genomehubs.org/httpdocs
ErrorLog /var/www/search.genomehubs.org/logs/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/search.genomehubs.org/logs/access.log combined
ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/var/www/search.genomehubs.org/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/var/www/search.genomehubs.org/cgi-bin/">
Options +ExecCGI
SetHandler cgi-script
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
$ docker run -d \
--name genomehubs-search \
-v ~/genomehubs/v1/search/conf:/conf:ro \
--network genomehubs-network \
-p 8884:8080 \
genomehubs/search:19.05

Troubleshooting

  • Earlier 19.05 container versions contained a search bug, if you are having trouble with search please pull the updated easy-mirror and search container images:
    • docker pull genomehubs/easy-mirror:19.05
    • docker pull genomehubs/search:19.05
  • This container must be named genomehubs-search and be made available on the same docker network as the genomehubs-ensembl container for the search configuration to work.