[Koha-devel] virtual hosting of Koha

Sat Jan 17 00:01:18 CET 2009

I am testing the migration through a commercial vendor. This takes a little longer than I thought, but I believe that I should be able to do so soon. (in 1-2 months? I hope). I will keep you posted if I have success. 

Yan Han

From: koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha.org [mailto:koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha.org] On Behalf Of Krishnan M
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 4:27 AM
To: koha-devel at lists.koha.org
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] virtual hosting of Koha

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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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

>

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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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