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Information Software Ensembl Website Ensembl Website Installation Instructions - Version 35

These pages provide step-by-step instructions for installing your own version of the Ensembl web site. They are intended to be complete; that is, if you install the site simply by following these instructions, it should work.

This document with each new release, so it should always be up-to-date.

If you find any omissions, errors, or just confusing bits in the instructions, please send an email to webmaster@ensembl.org, and we'll try to fix things.

Summary of Instructions

There are four main sections to these instructions:

Site Structure

Describes the directory structure of the site, and what the various sections do.

Build/Install

How to install all the components that make up the site.

Configuration

Instructions for configuring the site for your local set-up.

Running the site

How to start up, shut down, and generally maintain the site.

Before you start

Running the Ensembl web site can be rather taxing on hardware. At a minimum you will need:

• A UNIX-like OS (e.g. Tru64, Solaris, Linux, OS X, etc.)
• Approx. 160 Gigabytes of free hard-disk to hold a complete set of MySQL databases, and about the same again for downloading and unpacking the data. Depending on your requirements, you may wish to only install data for one or more species. The size requirements are roughly:

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