Re: [galaxy-dev] Setting up Galaxy without e-mail

2015-07-29 Thread Dannon Baker
Hi Raymond,

Regarding activation, you mean you set user_activation_on = True, right?
You can just leave 'user_activation_on = False', which is the default (and
the value if left commented), which will disable any requirement of having
a local SMTP server for user creation and won't validate the account.

If this instance is going to be a production server, I'd *strongly*
recommend just starting it right now with a Postgresql database.  Porting
data over is not something you'll want to have to deal with.

-Dannon

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Raymond Wan rwan.w...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear all,

 I just started setting up a galaxy instance and I'm a bit stuck with
 user account activation without e-mail.  Is it possible to run Galaxy
 without an SMTP server set?

 For example, for the administrator user, I set:

 admin_users = my e-mail

 in galaxy.ini .  I'd also like to require login (i.e., require_login =
 True) but it seems that I can't do that from the outset.  That has to
 be False and allow_user_creation has to be True.

 Then I can create a user with the same account as above, who will then
 become an administrator.  But, the account has to be validated some
 how and I can't seem to figure out how to do that without enabling an
 SMTP server.

 Am I doing something that wasn't intended?  Perhaps I must have an
 SMTP server set?  Or are there other steps I should do to activate the
 administrator?  The web page
 https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/GetGalaxy makes it look easy...so
 I am concerned I'm doing it all wrong...

 Also, if this instance will be a production system some day, should I
 start using a database (Postgres or MySQL) right away and not bother
 with the default SQLite?  Otherwise, I will have to port the data
 over, which the documentation implies is not an easy thing to do...

 Thank you!

 Ray
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Re: [galaxy-dev] Setting up Galaxy without e-mail

2015-07-29 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Dannon,


On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Dannon Baker dannon.ba...@gmail.com wrote:
 Regarding activation, you mean you set user_activation_on = True, right?
 You can just leave 'user_activation_on = False', which is the default (and
 the value if left commented), which will disable any requirement of having a
 local SMTP server for user creation and won't validate the account.


Thanks for this!  I must have set it to True without keeping a record
of it and was being locked out of the system.  I was going about it
all wrong...I thought I'm supposed to execute some SQL statement on
the back-end to set a flag to 'on' or something to activate users!


 If this instance is going to be a production server, I'd *strongly*
 recommend just starting it right now with a Postgresql database.  Porting
 data over is not something you'll want to have to deal with.


Got it!  Thank you for the advice!  I'll restart now before I get too
far into it...

Thanks for your help!

Ray
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