How to install PINT

• Download PINT
• Deploy PINT in a web application server
• Install PINT database

Download PINT

Go to http://sealion.scripps.edu/PINT to get the latest version of the war file pint.war

Deploy PINT in a web application server

Since PINT is a web application, you first have to setup an application server. Web application servers are programs that runs in the web server and allow to deploy a web application, in this case, a Java web application. One of the most popular web application servers is Apache Tomcat. You can go to that link and follow the instructions to install it in your server.

Once you have the web application server installed and running you can copy the pint.war file into the applications folder of the web application server. In case of tomcat, copy pint.war to $tomcat_folder/webapps. Just copying it, will deploy PINT into the server and will be accessible through the URL http://your_server//pint

But first, you need to install the mySQL database that PINT where PINT is going to store the data.

Install PINT database

PINT database is tested in a mySQL database server, but it could work on any other database system.
MySQL can be downloaded and installed for free (in case of the community edition) in your server from here. Using Windows, you can download the Windows-specific installer here which will provide a wizard for its installation. During its installation in Windows it is possible that you need to install some third party resources needed such as Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 and Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015. Just follow the instructions and install them all. Once the installation is finished, you will be able to configure the server specifying the following parameters:

• port,
• user_name,
• password

Then, you need to create the database in the server. To do that, download this SQL script file:

• pint_DB_structure_v1.1.sql and run it. It will create the database in your mysql server.

You can also explore the model of the database from the model file that can be opened from the MySQL Workbench:

• model_v1.1.mwb.

configuration

First thing you have to do it to edit the file web.xml in the server and set the property PINT_HOME_PATH to a folder in which all the information associated with PINT will be stored (not the database).
Example:

<context-param>
		<param-name>PINT_HOME_PATH</param-name>
		<param-value>/home/salvador/PInt</param-value>
</context-param>

Then, you can launch your application server and access PINT at http://localhost/pint (by default).
When you first open PINT you will be asked for setting up a MASTER PASSWORD. This master password will be used for accessing to the PINT configuration dialog.
Then, at the home page, you can click on Configuration to acccess to the PINT configuration dialog, after entering the master password.
From that dialog, you will be able to:

• change the master password
• change or add the OMIM API key
• setup the database connection settings
• setup some other parameters such as the project pre-loading parameters.
• there is one parameter, the PSM-centric that is disabled by default. We don't recommend to activate this parameter in case you have big datasets unless you have a very powerfull server, since it will consume much more resources from it. These parameters will be stored in a file in the server (see next section):

pint.properties file

This file, is located at the PINT_HOME_PATH. You can edit this file in order to setup some parameters. However,