Running lorax

lorax can be run via command line with no arguments.

If asynchronous queues are switched on (modes other than development), then redis will need to be started at the address specified by the configuration variable RQ_REDIS_URL. After that, two RQ work queues will need to be started as well:

rqworker treebuilding
rqworker alignment

It is also useful to run a dashboard (via rq-dashboard).

lorax is intended to be run in a trusted environment and contains no authentication. It should be run on ports that are accessible only to trusted hosts. Running lorax on a public port opens the possibility of denial-of-service attacks.

We recommend that lorax be run in a virtual environment if on a shared server. However, the shell scripts will work for real environments as well.