[Koha-devel] virtual hosting of Koha

Fri Jan 16 12:26:35 CET 2009

I get the digest, so i am only able to respond now. 

I want to report one failure, and an eventual success (using a different route...)

The failure:
i was unable to deploy Koha to my regular account with a shared hosting service (specifically, hostmonster.com). 

i don't remember any problems with the make process, however, i had issues with getting the hosting to work...i don't even think i was using virtual hosts, i wanted to first get at least the INTRANET running, but the only thing i could use was changes to .htaccess files, since i don't get access to Apache's config directly.

Koha had problems finding the Perl modules, specifically it did not pick up environment variables pointing to their location

i was not very smart at that point with different approaches, so after trying for a while, i chose another route...

Success:

Since i was determined to host on the Internet, i basically decided to get my "own server", essentially a slice (at slicehost.com). They use virtualization and give you a choice of OS, ample bandwidth, and for all practical purposes, its like your own box, where you are root and can do whatever you like.

>From then on, it was like a regular Koha install and a few hours later, it was up and running...

i've never gone back and analyzed what went wrong with the shared hosting, but i basically faced one problem after another, so that eventually, i just gave up. But, i think, in theory, it should be possible to do with some changes to the install process.

Regards,
krishnan

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   1. Re: virtual hosting of Koha (Michel Virard)
   2. how to handle the link back to amazon? (Nicolas Morin)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:35:38 -0500
From: Michel Virard <mvirard at videotron.ca>
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] virtual hosting of Koha
To: "Han, Yan" <hany at u.library.arizona.edu>,
	Koha-devel at listes.koha-fr.org
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Hello Yan,

Any luck so far? I, too, am planning to move my Koha to the commercial  
hosting service where our web site is already located and I am interested  
in what to expect with such a move.

Michel

Le Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:07:34 -0500, Han, Yan <hany at u.library.arizona.edu>

a ?crit:

> Hello, All,
>
>
> I have been running Koha on a local server, but am testing to virtual
> host Koha on a commercial server (for example. Bluehost.com). In local
> server implementation, you need to "make install" to install
Koha.
>
>
> In a commercial server, "make install" is not allowed. So does
anyone
> have any luck to run koha in a commercial host? If so, please let me
> know the configuration changes, and the company's name.
>
>
> It seems that <virtualhost> configuration is not allowed in this
> commercial server.  If Apache env is not allowed to change in this case,
> how can we setEnv for "perl5lib" and "Koha_conf"?
>
>
> # KOHA's OPAC Configuration
>
> <VirtualHost 150.135.239.44:80>
>
>    ServerAdmin
>
>    DocumentRoot /data1/koha/opac/htdocs
>
>    ServerName kobol
>
>    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/koha/ "/data1/koha/opac/cgi-bin/"
>
>    Redirect permanent index.html
> http://150.135.239.44:80/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl
>
>
>    ErrorLog /data1/koha/log/opac-error_log
>
>    TransferLog /data1/koha/log/opac-access_log
>
>    SetEnv PERL5LIB "/data1/koha/intranet/modules"
>
>    SetEnv KOHA_CONF "/etc/koha.conf"
>
> </VirtualHost>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Yan
>

-- 
Michel Virard

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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:59:13 +0100
From: "Nicolas Morin" <nicolas.morin at biblibre.com>
Subject: [Koha-devel] how to handle the link back to amazon?
To: "koha-devel at lists.koha.org" <koha-devel at lists.koha.org>
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Hi there,
I want to gather opinions about a possible small change in the way the
Amazon covers are handled in the opac on the detailed view of a
record.
Currently we show the Amazon cover and link back to the product's page
on Amazon's web site from the cover itself. Some librarians I talk to
are uncomfortable with the idea that their public library will show a
link to a (monopolistic (online-only (us-owned
(insert-yr-own-fears-here)))) bookseller in such a prominent way :
using the whole cover image as a link.
At least some of them would be assuaged, I think, by a more discreet
link between their opac and Amazon : removing the link from the image
itself and providing it through a tiny text just below the image,
saying "source : Amazon", might be a solution. See example at
http://www.libfly.com/je-suis-une-legende-livre-25918.html
What do you think?
Nicolas
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