TPP:Windows Cygwin Installation

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1 Windows Installation
2 Next Steps
- 2.1 Using the TPP web interface ("Petunia")
- 2.2 Example Data Analysis
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Windows Installation

Overview

This installation will install a Unix environment (Cygwin) on your Windows system. The installation process is automated and not complicated. If you use BioworksBrowser and SequestBrowser, please download and install these tools prior to installing the SPC software. By default the software installs and uses the Apache2 webserver. The Apache2 webserver is configured to answer only on port 1441, so it should not conflict with an existing instance of IIS (the default Windows webserver).

Downloading and Running the Setup.exe Installation Program

You must be logged on as an Administrator to install these tools.
Download the TPP_Cygwin_Setup.exe installation program.
Follow default installation by clicking "Next" at each installation step, until the installation is completed
Reboot the computer
If everything worked correctly you should be able to now access the TPP web interface

Setup.exe Installation Walkthrough

1. Select to "Install from the Internet"	2. The default installation will install cygwin to c:\cygwin. Note: If your Windows OS is installed on a drive letter other than C:, you must CHANGE the path to c:\cygwin, or the software GUI WILL NOT work! Keep the other options set to default "RECOMMENDED" settings.	3. Select a directory where you want to download the temporary installation files. If unsure the "Desktop" is a good default.	4. Choose "Direct Connection" to the Internet.
5. Select "http://tools.proteomecenter.org" as the Download Site.	6. All default installation packages should be installed along with any automatically selected dependencies. You should not have to select anything manually at this step.

Starting/Stopping Apache

Note: It is not necessary manually start the webserver if the computer was reboot after installation.

Open Control Panel → Administrative Tools → Services
Start the service cygapache2_stop to STOP Apache2 for cygwin
Start the service cygapache2_start to START Apache2 for cygwin
Please allow up to a minute for each service to do its job, these services will finish automatically

Installation Troubleshooting

Reboot the computer. System environmental variables are not reset until this step occurs!
Open Control Panel → System → Advanced → Environment Variables and verify that the following System variables are set:

WEBSERVER_ROOT: Set to "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\"
WEBSERVER_URL: Set to "http://localhost:1441/"
COMETLINKSFILE: Set to "C:\Inetpub\tpp-bin\cometlinks.def"
PATH: Begins with "C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;C:\cygwin\bin;"

Open Control Panel → Administrative Tools → Services and verify that the following Services are present:

cygserver: Startup Type set to Automatic
cygapache2_start: Startup Type set to Automatic
cygapache2_stop: Startup Type set to Manual

(OPTIONAL!) Running with the IIS webserver instead of Apache

If you would prefer to run this software with the IIS webserver, please make sure you open this link so you can follow the installation and system configuration instructions. This page contains very important information which covers most first-time IIS installation issues.