Installing BACA

If you have any problems installing BACA, please don't hesitate to contact us. If you install the server-side components on Windows, our ability to help is limited, but we will do our best.

Requirements

BACA was tested on GNU/Linux. All the software required is available most common Unixes and Windows On the server-side BACA requires:

BioPerl (and, thus, Perl).
The Perl SVG Module
Typical Unix tools like bash, sort, grep, ... For Windows these can be found on the Cygwin package.
A web server. Apache is recommended.

Instalation

After downloading and unziping the file, you need to know 5 things before you begin:

The path where you can put CGI scripts (in our example we will use /usr/lib/cgi-bin)
The path where you can put the HTML files visible to the web server(we will use /var/www)
The directory where you downloaded BACA. We will use /home/user/baca
The email address of BACA administrator (you?). Will will use somebody@acme.com
The URL where BACA will be visible. Example: http://your.host.edu/baca

Please note that if you don't use a webserver and do command-line usage only, installation is much simpler There is a script on the top directory, called install.sh, with the parameters above, go there and edit the relevant parts at the top (there are comments on the script to help you make the changes). In our case you would use /usr/lib/cgi-bin, /var/www, /home/user/baca, somebody@acme.com and http://your.host.edu/baca.
Important: You have to have read/write/execute permission on the CGI directory and read/write permission on the HTML directory. The web-server user will have to be able to execute the code on the directory you have downloaded BACA.

Now, just run install.sh.