Web deployment question

[David Gutman]

So there's also


http://www.ampps.com/

which does have python support built in for windows..


On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert at cs.cmu.edu>wrote:

> On 10/18/2012 10:34 AM, Bob Seifert wrote:
> > I'm a resident pathologist at the University of South Florida and I'm
> > looking to set up a small OpenSlide and OpenSeaDragon webserver to
> > handle weekly cases for review.
> >
> > All we have available to act as a host is a Windows 7 desktop.  In
> > fact we are still struggling to get IT to let us use it as a server,
> > but that is a different problem.
> >
> > I wanted to know how to deploy OpenSlide and OpenSeaDragon on this
> > desktop and I'm struggling to find documentation on the subject
> > online.  Where do the whole slide image files go?  Simple questions, I
> > realize but this isn't my area of expertise.
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> There are two pieces to this.  OpenSlide knows how to read slide files.
>   OpenSlide Python (the interface to OpenSlide from the Python language)
> has some additional code to produce the Deep Zoom tiles needed by
> OpenSeadragon.  You will need both.
>
> Martin Weihrauch recently installed OpenSlide and OpenSlide Python on
> Windows and wrote up a wiki page on how he did it:
>
>
> https://github.com/openslide/openslide/wiki/RunningDeepZoomTilerOnWindows
>
> That document should be a good starting point.  Note that Martin used
> deepzoom_tile.py, which writes Deep Zoom tiles for the *entire* slide.
> In your case, this is a waste of time and storage space -- I assume each
> slide will be viewed only briefly.  Instead, you should look at
> deepzoom_server.py, which generates individual tiles when they are
> requested by a web browser.
>
> deepzoom_server.py also requires Flask, which in turn requires some
> other things.  The best way to get them is to install setuptools:
>
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
>
> and use that to install Flask.
>
> Yes, there are a lot of pieces.  Our software distributions are
> currently tailored more for programmers than for end users.  If you run
> into problems setting everything up, let us know.
>
> Finally, when you run deepzoom_server.py, it will serve you *one* slide.
>   To change the slide, you have to stop and restart the program.  It's
> intended as an example demonstrating how to integrate OpenSlide into a
> website; it's not really intended as a standalone system.
>
> > I was planning on building an interface using an IDE called "Tersus"
> > which is a visual programming language that I have some familiarity
> > with (tersus.com). But I can use XAMPP for windows to host OpenSlide
> > and OpenSeaDragon if need be.
>
> XAMPP doesn't seem to include Python, so it won't help you here.
>
>
> By the way, what format are your slide files?
>
> --Benjamin Gilbert
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-- 
David A Gutman, M.D. Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Senior Research Scientist, Center for Comprehensive Informatics
Emory University School of Medicine
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