[CWB] [CQPweb] Help and tips for taking the plunge and installing CQPweb on a server

[Scott Sadowsky]

Hi all,

I've been using CQPwebInABox for a couple years now, and it's been great.
But alas, I realized just recently that the total lack of updates in the
last year or more isn't because it's an incredibly stable distro, but
because it's now end-of-life, essentially abandoned. Add to that the fact
that CQPweb updates have failed for me in this environment for some time
now (probably because of deprecated dependencies that can't be updated),
and it's clear that it's time for me to get my act together and get up to
date.

There doesn't seem to be a new CQPwebInABox version, which would be the
easiest alternative by far, so that's not an option. Furthermore, it's
become clear to me that the only way I'm going to get my corpora online is
to use my own server and do the installation of CQPweb myself.

So... with a daunting 100+ page manual awaiting me, I'd like to ask for
everybody's help with collecting and pointing to me/sending me all possible
*up-to-date* and *currently applicable* documentation on installing CQPweb,
be it manuals, papers, your own personal notes, tutorials, lists of
pitfalls or non-obvious packages that must be installed, etc.

I'm going to be doing this on Ubuntu 18.04.2.

I know a lot of that sounds like stuff I should google, but CWB/CQP/CQPweb
has been around long enough that it suffers from the Ubuntu paradox --
there's so much ancient, old or not-quite-up-to-date information out there
that it's sometimes very hard to get the *right *information.

In return, as it were, I plan to script as much of the installation process
as humanly possible, and when I'm done I'll upload the script to GitHub or
somewhere similar so others can benefit from it.

Cheers,
Scott
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