[Koha-win32] A Successful Installation of Koha 3 on Windows

[Raphael Muonga]

Sorry to get you a bit backwards.
I am  new to the Koha system.
I stumbled on Koha 2.9 which I have successfully installed on Windows
XP, but I have a problem to add members.  The system is producing a
blank Member Record page after filling in all the details in the
Member Personal Details form and clicking Save button at the bottom.
But each time I retry to enter the details which are showing as not
being entered are appearing as you start typing them in the boxes. So
what is causing this.

I am aware that there is Koha 3.0 but I wanted to start with Koha 2.9
which looked to me to be easy to do.  And by the way when I downloaded
Koha 3.0 it has got .tar.gz extension, how do I execute this kind of a
file. Or in short what step-by-step procedure can I follow to install
Koha 3.0 on Windows XP?

Thanking you in anticipation.


Raphael Chisanga Muonga

On 9/8/10, Mazen Abdulaziz <mazen.abdulaziz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I apologize for not following up, things went really busy down here.
>
> Testing the new installation of Koha 3 under Windows went smooth. Everything
> worked correctly except for batch-importing MARC records, which didn't work
> at all.
>
> Technically, the problem arouse when executing "stage-marc-import.pl," and
> Koha logged a "Premature End of Script Headers." -- I'm not sure if this is
> the correct list to be discussing technical and down-to-the-code problems.
>
> I have also talked to chris_n, who also successfully ported Koha 3 to
> Windows (surely before I did), and he said that he didn't have problems in
> the batch-marc importer tool, however he said that the performance of Koha
> is sluggish when provided ~7K of records.
>
> I'll come back once I get the batch-marc importer running.
>
> Best Regards,
> Mazen Abdulaziz
> IT Consultant
> Hadhramout University, College of Medicine
> Mukalla, Hadhramout, Yemen
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Mazen Abdulaziz
> <mazen.abdulaziz at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> *Hello everyone*,
>>
>> I'm new to this mailing list (hi there).
>>
>> I've spent my last three days trying to deploy Koha 3 on Windows, and
>> through out my searches I could see that no one had reported a successful
>> installation of Koha 3 on Windows (or at least that event hasn't yet been
>> indexed by Google!)
>>
>> I'm not sure where you guys are currently, but I have been able to
>> successfully install Koha 3 on Windows.
>>
>> I just finished the installation and testing, so what I am considering now
>> is to re-install it again and write down the (rather simple) steps.
>>
>> For the impatient: I used the latest version of Strawberry perl
>> (5.12.10.0), which includes LibXSLT by default (biggest problem
>> resolved!).
>> I also could compile Net::Z3950::ZOOM correctly by modifying the makefile,
>> linking it to the libraries of the latest version of YAZ (4.0.12). I only
>> made minor changes to the source code of two files in Koha directory:
>> koha-conf.xml and Installer.pm. I also installed Koha in a directory that
>> contains no spaces along its path.
>>
>> Hope that interests somebody.
>> *
>> Mazen Abdulaziz,
>> Hadhramout University, College of Medicine*
>>
>


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Shikulu mpundu - Raphael Chisanga Muonga