Getting SNORQL to work with Virtuoso

SNORQL is an AJAX SPARQL browser that makes it easy to i) see if your queries work and ii) navigate your linked data. SNORQL comes packaged with D2R server, but one has to make a few modifications to make it work when a) installed in a directory or port that is different than the SPARQL endpoint.

You need 3 things to do the following to make SNORQL work with some host-located endpoint:

1. Download and install SNORQL. SNORQL comes as part of the D2R distribution. Download this and extract the snorql folder from the webapps director into some folder on your host, preferably one that is already accessible by the web server (e.g. in the htdocs directory). If you want to put SNORQL in a folder different than that, you must add an entry to the http.conf file.

Alias /snorql /usr/var/snorql

<Directory "/usr/var/snorql">

Options None

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

2. Configure the Apache server as a proxy to the endpoint. If the port of the apache server and the endpoint are different, you need to make them appear the same for the AJAX to work. Add this to your http.conf file

ProxyRequests Off

<Proxy *>

Order deny,allow

Allow from all

</Proxy>

ProxyPass /sparql http://localhost:8890/sparql

ProxyPassReverse /sparql http://localhost:8890/sparql

3. Configure SNORQL to use the endpoint.

Edit the snorql.js file and replace

this._endpoint = document.location.href.match(/^([^?]*)snorql\//)[1] + 'sparql';

with

this._endpoint = 'http://localhost/sparql';

4. Open your browser to the SNORQL URL (e.g. http://localhost/snorql) to query and navigate the results :-)