SDSS SkyServer Website Download Page

This page provides a link to the SDSS SkyServer Web Interface download and instructions for installing it, for SDSS Catalog Archive Server (CAS) mirror sites.

Download Website:

Instructions for installing the SkyServer Website:

1. Unzip the Website that you downloaded from the link above into a location in the C: drive on your Webserver machine.
2. Important: Ensure that your IIS configuration has the "Enable Parent Paths" option turned on.
3. Create a Virtual Directory that points to the top level of the directory where you extracted the website to. This should be the directory that is one level above the "en" subdirectory in the Website directory tree. The URL to your site will then be http://localhost/<vdirname>, where <vdirname> is the name (alias) of the virtual directory you create. To create a virtual directory, you need to
   • right-click on "My Computer" in the Start menu and select the "Manage" option.
   • In the Computer Management browser, you then need to open the IIS ("Internet Information Services") tab.
   • Under IIS, right-click on the "Default Web Site" or "Web Sites -> particular website" tab and select "New -> Virtual Directory".
   • In the first Virtual Directory window, click Next to get the Alias window and set the alias to the name you want the site to have.
   • Click Next to go to the path that this virtual directory points to. Click Browse to select the top of the web tree that you extracted the SkyServer Website to (the level above the "en" subdirectory.
   • Click Next once more and then Finish to create the Virtual Directory.
   • If you want to restrict access to your site, you can later right-click on the new virtual directory and open the Properties. The Directory Security tab contains options for restricting access to the site.
4. Copy the globals.inc.cvs file at the top level of the website tree to globals.inc in the same directory.
5. Edit the globals.inc file as necessary to set the local parameters and paths for your mirror site. In particular, set at least the values of the access, releaseNumber, userpwd and server variables.
The remaining variable values can be set on an as needed basis for your local configuration. If you have a local version of the CasJobs or ImgCutout services, then you will need to modify the URLs for those.
6. Try the new site by opening a browser and typing the URL "http://localhost/<vdirname>". You may replace "localhost" with the name of the server.

That's it ... your SkyServer mirror site is ready to go! If you have problems with the installation, please contact the SkyServer helpdesk.

(Note: If you want to mirror the ImgCutout Web service also, you can download it here).