adjusting_configuration.md

Adjusting cBioPortal

Customize server configuration

To build an image that uses a different log level than the default, modify log4j.properties.

Use a different cBioPortal branch

The default configuration to run containers creates an image based on the latest version of cBioPortal known to work with the Docker setup. The branch used to build the image is specified in the Dockerfile. Download or check out the folder containing the Dockerfile.

To use a different branch, you must know the branch name and the latest commit of this branch that you want to apply to your image, and specify them in the Dockerfile. For instance, if you want to build a cBioPortal image based on commit 6b9356aecdce4068543156e6b1b4509ce89cae66 of rc, you should find this part of the Dockerfile:

#RUN git fetch https://github.com/thehyve/cbioportal.git my_development_branch \
#       && git checkout commit_hash_in_branch

and replace it with:

RUN git fetch https://github.com/cbioportal/cbioportal.git rc \
       && git checkout 6b9356aecdce4068543156e6b1b4509ce89cae66

Build the new Docker image

Once you have made your changes, you can build the image by going to your cBioPortal Docker directory and typing:

docker build -t cbioportal-image .

You could include a version to the image name by using a :. For example:

docker build -t cbioportal-image:1.11.2 .