Installing OMERO 5 on Windows

[hflynn]

Kyle Douglass has very kindly shared with us his notes about installing OMERO on Windows. We thought they may be useful to a wider audience.

We'll update our documentation if any clear recommendations for improvement come out of his experience.

Regards,

Helen

[jamesan]

Thanks for posting this. Kyle's guide was very helpful setting up my own Windows installation on Windows 2012 R2 x64.

In particular Kyle's IIS setup clarification regarding disabling 32-bit applications instructions are in conflict with the instructions on the openmicroscopy.org site. My experience was Kyle is correct and 32-bit application support must be disabled to make the web server work.

Like Kyle I was tripped up with installing Python 2.7 first, then having to go back and install Python 2.6.

The final issue I had in setup on Windows was Omero not starting when storing images on a mapped drive to an NFS. The diagnostics reported they had RW access to the mapped drive. I finished setup on a local drive to get Omero running and will bring the issue up in another thread if I can't find a solution.

[manics]

Hi James

We're currently looking into which Python versions we support (this is partly determined by third party libraries such as Ice), so 2.7 is a possibility in the future.

On Windows OMERO defaults to running under a local service account which will not have access to Network drives mapped under the account used to start the server. You can change the system account used by OMERO: http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/supp ... tools.html

However, we've had some problems with networked filesystems in the past, see the warnings on http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/supp ... ote-shares

Simon