[Koha-devel] request bulkmarcimport assistance

Wed Feb 2 11:00:34 CET 2005

Hi Joshua! I have tried to respond below so that you may be able to
figure out where I am in the process. I have tried to be somewhat
detailed; I hope this is appropriate.

-----Original Message-----
From: koha-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:koha-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Joshua
Ferraro
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 11:59 AM
To: koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] request bulkmarcimport assistance

Mark,

The path /var/lib/mysql/"anything" refers to the database itself.

### I understand. [I have /var/lib/mysql/csl and /var/lib/mysql/cslr and
wish to relocate them to /csl/anydir1 and /csl/anydir2 ; see below]

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).

### I have done this. [csl and cslr]

You'll also probably want to use a different admin account for ease of
administration (e.g., kohaadmin1, kohaadmin2).

### I have done this. 

You will also want to keep the koha paths different for those two
installs (e.g., /usr/local/koha1, /usr/local/koha2),

### I have done this. [/csl/koha/csl and /csl/koha/cslr]

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).

### I have done this. [/etc/koha-csl.conf and /etc/koha-cslr.conf as
well as /etc/koha-httpd-csl.conf and /etc/httpd-cslr.conf, pointing
properly, I think, since I can call up both user interfaces and both
admin interfaces on the net at the designated ip adddresses.

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.

### I think I have gotten the initial dual setup done "properly" but, as
you say, some customization remains. For me this appears to entail
getting koha to import marc records to a dir specified by me
[/csl/anydir1 or /csl/anydir2] and getting and koha and/or mysql (maybe
just mysql?) to look for the data in the that location specified by me,
not in /var/lib/mysql/csl or /var/lib/mysql/cslr as the case may be.
There MUST be a config file with these paths or variable to them
somewhere; I'm just not sure where to look.

### There's one other issue that I think is important. When I ran the
bulkmarcimport.pl from the /csl/koha/_"csl"_ directory, the data ended
up in the /var/lib/mysql/_"cslr"_ directory. "cslr" was the _second_ of
the two install routines I did, so this leads me to believe that
bulkmarcimport.pl, no matter the dir in which it is executed, is running
in the same "context" [?]. What files does bulkmarcimport.pl look at?

### Sincere thanks for your assistance. Mark ###

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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