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Mohamed E. Masoud edited this page Jun 3, 2026 · 1 revision

In general, you can securely host your OME-TIFF image data on any of the Digital Slide Archive(DSA) servers (e.g., Styx) available online.

However, if you need to host your own OME-TIFF data on a local machine or private cluster, installing a DSA platform locally is required. Steps to follow for installation are available with this link.

After successfully installing and running the local instance of DSA, you can configure HistoJS interface to access your images from the Settings form by adding the DSA local platform to the DSA Hosts as shown:

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If local server can't be added and HistoJS shows this message "No response from server"



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This issue is often caused by a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) configuration problem. To verify whether CORS is the cause, open the browser developer console (F12 → Console) and look for CORS-related errors similar to the following:



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In this case make sure to login to DSA as administrator using :

user: admin

and

password: password



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Then go to admin console - Server Configuration - Advanced Settings and properly configure CORS Allowed Origins and set it to *



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