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http://heliopropa.irap.omp.eu
What
Web Server
Build and serve heliopropa's visualizations.
It's a flask webserver, serving d3.js plots.
It also gathers NetCDF data from AMDA, and serves it as CSV to the plotter.
Rationale

Reading NetCDF from javascript is doable, but still very hacky.
The bridge can handle pagination and collecting multiple NetCDF into one CSV.

How
Source
https://gitlab.irap.omp.eu/CDPP/SPACEWEATHERONLINE
Overview

config.yml : the main configuration file.
web/run.py : the front controller, holding most of the code.
web/run.log : you'll find more information about failures in the log.
web/view/home.html.jinja2 : the HTML template.
web/static/js/swapp.ls : most of the javascript client-side.

Install
Prerequisites
gcc
libncurses-dev
python2
virtualenv
Python venv

  
    virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install matplotlib
pip install numpy==1.8.*
pip install -r requirements.txt

  
CentOs 6 Shenanigans

  
    yum install https://centos6.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
yum install python27*

  
But then virtualenv yields


    File "/var/www/html/HELIOPROPA/web/run.py", line 24, in <module>
[Fri Nov 30 14:30:38 2018] [error] [client 10.10.135.119]     from netCDF4 import Dataset, date2num
[Fri Nov 30 14:30:38 2018] [error] [client 10.10.135.119]   File "/var/www/html/HELIOPROPA/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/netCDF4/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
[Fri Nov 30 14:30:38 2018] [error] [client 10.10.135.119]     from ._netCDF4 import *
[Fri Nov 30 14:30:38 2018] [error] [client 10.10.135.119] ImportError: /var/www/html/HELIOPROPA/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/netCDF4/_netCDF4.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_FromStringAndSize

  
Solution:
Configure Apache to use web/run_ssa.wsgi and use pip2.7 install system wide.
Install libcdf.

  
    wget https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/software/cdf/dist/cdf38_1/cdf38_1-dist-all.tar.gz
tar -xzvf cdf38_1-dist-all.tar.gz
cd cdf38_1-dist
make all OS=linux ENV=gnu
make INSTALLDIR=/usr/local/lib/libcdf install

  
Develop

  
    source venv/bin/activate
DEBUG=true python web/run.py

  
Then, browse localhost:5000.
Troubleshoot
Installing scipy
Getting MemoryErrors ?
Try with the --no-cache-dir option.

pip install scipy --no-cache-dir
Fix permissions problems with the cache

  
    sudo setfacl  -R -m u:apache:rwx -m u:`whoami`:rwx cache
sudo setfacl -dR -m u:apache:rwx -m u:`whoami`:rwx cache