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Installing a DODS Server

Question:




How do I install a DODS server?



Solution:



Here we give you some brief instructions for default installation of a DODS 
  server. We hope that the process is as simple for you as it was on our Linux 
  box running RedHat 7.3. Total time for installation was 10 minutes. These instructions 
  assume that you have LAS compatible netCDF files 
  that you also wish to make available via DODS.


    
  
  1. Get the appropriate DODS 
    server binaries. (I used the RedHat 7.1 binary on a RedHat 7.3 system.)
    2. 
  
  2. Unpack the DODS code under a single directory listing that we call the $DODS_ROOT 
    directory.
    3. 
  
  3. Use the install script, $(DODS_ROOT/etc/installServer, to copy the CGI programs 
    and Perl modules in the etc directory in
    
    the DODS source tree ($(DODS_ROOT)/etc) to one of the directories where the 
    Web server expects to find its CGI
    
    programs. 
    4. 
  
  4.  
    
    Test the installation by pointing your browser to:
    
      http://YOUR_HOST/cgi-bin/nph-dods/version
    
  
    5. 
  
  5. Create a link in your web document directory that points to your data directory.
    6. 
  
  6. Test DODS access by pointing your browser to:
    
    http://YOUR_HOST/cgi-bin/nph-dods/DATA_DIR/ 
    
    
  
    7. 



If you run into problems, you'll need to go to the detailed 
  instructions supplied by the DODS folks.





Jonathan Callahan: Jonathan.S.Callahan@noaa.gov

  Last modified: May 29, 2003