Glossa is written in Clojure, which compiles to Java bytecode and runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). This means that Java needs to be installed on your machine, which is probably already the case; otherwise it can be downloaded from https://www.java.com or (preferably) installed via the package manager for your system.
Glossa also requires MySQL, which can probably also be installed via your package manager or alternatively downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/. Glossa has been tested with MySQL versions >= 5.1.73.
Finally, the default search engine used by Glossa is the IMS Open Corpus Workbench (CWB). Some packages are required to compile this system. In Debian-based distributions you may need to run:
apt-get install flex libglib2.0-dev gawk
Follow the installation instructions of The IMS Open Corpus Workbench (CWB). Check out the latest version from SVN, as described at the bottom of the page, to get support for UTF-8-encoded corpora.
Glossa uses a core database as well as a separate database for each corpus. This makes it easy to copy a corpus to a different server (just dump its database on the old machine and run the create_corpus.sh script and subsequently import the database on the new machine) or to remove a particular corpus (just drop its database and remove the relevant row in the core database). It also leads to a significant simplification and speedup of all code related to importing and searching corpora.
In order to set up the core database, run the src/mysql/setup.sh script. This
will create the core database with the name glossa__core. If you want to change
the prefix used for the core and all the corpus-specific databases to something
other than glossa, set the environment variable GLOSSA_PREFIX.
The variables GLOSSA_DB_USER (default: "glossa") and GLOSSA_DB_PASSWORD
also need to be set accordingly.
The variables should be set in config.sh in the root of the project. For example:
export GLOSSA_DB_USER='glossa'
export GLOSSA_DB_PASSWORD='GlossaPassword'
export GLOSSA_PREFIX='myglossa'
With the above config, the following commands:
cd src/mysql
./setup.sh
will create the core database with the name myglossa__core, and all corpus-specific
databases will also get a myglossa prefix instead of glossa. To change only the
name of the core database, set GLOSSA_CORE in config.sh.
The script src/mysql/create_corpus.sh creates a row for the new corpus in the
core database as well as a separate database for the corpus. For example, the command
src/mysql/create_corpus.sh mycorpus will create a row in the core database for
the mycorpus corpus as well as a database called glossa_mycorpus (or optionally with
a different prefix, as explained above). For corpora encoded with the IMS Open Corpus
Workbench (the default), Glossa will expect to find a corpus with the ID mycorpus in
the CWB registry.
If the corpus has metadata, they can be imported using the scripts
src/mysql/import_metadata_categories.sh CORPUS CATEGORIES.TSV and
src/mysql/import_metadata_values.sh CORPUS VALUES.TSV CATEGORIES.TSV, where CORPUS
is the "short name" of the corpus (e.g. mycorpus). TODO: Describe the format
of the TSV files.
New users can be added using src/mysql/adduser.sh. For the script to work,
the environment variables, described above, need to be set properly.
Make sure that config.sh is set up as described above, and run
./start_dev.sh. The webserver is started by default at port 10555. When you
see the line Successfully compiled "resources/public/app.js" in 21.36 seconds., you're ready to go. Browse to http://localhost:10555 and enjoy. The
port can be changed by setting PORT in config.sh.
Figwheel may also be started without rlwrap, but it will then be missing line
editing, persistent history and completion.
Clojure REPL can be started in a terminal: lein repl, or from Emacs: open a
clj/cljs file in the project, then do M-x cider-jack-in (make sure
CIDER is up to date). You may call (run) in REPL, which is equivalent to
lein run in the startup script.
External SAML login (used e.g. by Feide) is done via an external daemon that
creates a new session (and possibly a new user) after successful
authentication. SAML_LOGOUT_URL can be set in config.sh to provide a
logout link. At the Text Laboratory, the we configure it as follows:
export SAML_LOGOUT_URL='https://tekstlab.uio.no/glossa2/saml/logout'
If you want to enable external login, the SAML environment variables need to be set during building the application. Therefore, the best way to build Glossa in the production mode is to run the script:
./build.sh
To start the server:
./start_prod.sh
To restart the server:
./restart_prod.sh
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