[Koha-devel] request bulkmarcimport assistance

[Joshua Ferraro]

Mark,

The path /var/lib/mysql/"anything" refers to the database itself.
The way to distinguish between two koha installs (provided that
you want the database to be different for them) is to specify
a different database name for each of them (for instance, koha1
and koha2).  You'll also probably want to use a different admin
account for ease of administration (e.g., kohaadmin1, kohaadmin2).
You will also want to keep the koha paths different for those two
installs (e.g., /usr/local/koha1, /usr/local/koha2), as well
as have a seperate koha.conf file for each of them (e.g., 
/usr/local/koha1/etc/koha.conf, /usr/local/koha2/etc/koha.conf).

The fastest way to do this is during the initial installation of
Koha, when it asks you those specific questions, though it would
be possible to set it up later on.  Of course, the install is not
really setup to handle multiple installations so you'll still need
to customize some things once you have run both installations.

For instance, afaik Koha will always put the koha.conf file in /etc.
Just copy that file to wherever you want to store it and update your
koha-httpd.conf accordingly.

Hope that helps,

Joshua

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:34:14PM -0500, Stephen Hedges wrote:
> Mark, I could be wrong about this (and if I am, I hope someone corrects me
> quickly!), but if you have two installs, I assume you have two different
> paths to Koha:  something like /usr/local/koha and /usr/local/koha2.  So
> if you change the PERL5LIB environment variable accordingly, you should be
> able to control where the data goes, because Koha will grab the
> appropriate "context" from the path you specify.  You might do:
> # export PERL5LIB=/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules
> to load records in one install, and
> # export PERL5LIB=/usr/local/koha2/intranet/modules
> to load records into the other install.
> You'd need to take out any "use lib "/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules";"
> statement that you might have added to bulkmarcimport.pl
> 
> Stephen
> 
> Bruffey, Mark said:
> > Thanks for your assistance Stephen. The routine ran fine, but, since I
> > have two installs I am trying to keep separate, I need a way to
> > designate where the data will go. It appears that the data path defaults
> > to /var/lib/mysql/variablename. I need to designate two separate data
> > paths, preferably not as a subdir of /var/lib/mysql, and have my two
> > instances of KOHA be able to find the right set of data. Is this
> > possible? If so, what do I need to do to implement this change? Sincere
> > thanks, Mark
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Hedges [mailto:shedges at skemotah.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 8:08 AM
> > To: Bruffey, Mark
> > Cc: koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] request bulkmarcimport assistance
> >
> >
> > Mark, could it be that your perl can't find the Koha C4 directory?
> > (Although that usually produces a different error.)  Try this:
> >
> > Before you run "./bulkmarcimport.pl", export the directory where C4
> > resides: # export PERL5LIB=/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules
> > (that's the normal directory for most installs, change it if yours is
> > different.)
> >
> > Or if you use bulkmarcimport a lot, add this line to the list of "use"
> > statements at the beginning of the script: use lib
> > "/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules";
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> > Bruffey, Mark said:
> >> I'm getting the following error when attempting to run
> >> bulkmarcimport.pl:
> >>
> >> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./bulkmarcimport.pl line 10.
> >>
> >> It seems like I had a similar problem when I imported records some
> >> months ago, but, of course, I do not appear to have documented the
> >> solution to it . . . .
> >>
> >> Sincere thanks for any assistance.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >> L. Mark Bruffey
> >> Director Library Services
> >> Central Baptist Theological Seminary
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> >>
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> >>
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> -- 
> Stephen Hedges
> Skemotah Solutions, USA
> www.skemotah.com  --  shedges at skemotah.com
> 
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