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Dear all<br><br>I am sorry I forgot to thank you all for your help with my (very general) questions about Koha.<br>All your explanations have been very useful already, and I keep on refering to your emails in our initial thinking about the server etc.<br><br>Many many thanks!<br><br>Sonia.<br><br><br><div>> From: chris@bigballofwax.co.nz<br>> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:17:13 +1300<br>> To: ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com<br>> CC: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<br>> Subject: Re: [Koha] What kind of IT skills required...?<br>> <br>> 2011/9/27 Ian Walls <ian.walls@bywatersolutions.com>:<br>> > Sonia,<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > To host your own server, you'll need some level of comfort with Linux<br>> > command line operations. I recommend a Debian Squeeze server. You can<br>> > either purchase a new physical machine, or create a virtual server on an<br>> > existing machine or in the cloud. You can quickly fire up a server in the<br>> > cloud using services like Amazon Web Computing, Rackspace or Linode. This<br>> > saves you from having to install an operating system on a piece of physical<br>> > or virtual hardware.<br>> ><br>> > Once you've got the server up and running, you'll need to install Koha. You<br>> > can do so from the packages, from the git repository or from the<br>> > downloadable tarballs. Personally, I recommend the git installation, but my<br>> > understanding is that the packages are a little more user-friendly at the<br>> > installation phase. Are you going to be developing on Koha at all? If so,<br>> > then a git installation is definitely the way to go, so you can track your<br>> > local changes, and format them in a way to submit back to Koha!<br>> ><br>> > In addition to installing Koha itself, you'll need to install it's<br>> > dependencies. That includes MySQL (with which you said you were familiar),<br>> > Zebra and Apache (Perl is almost always installed by default). The<br>> > installation instructions for Koha will walk you through those steps.<br>> > Further, if you want your Koha install to be able to send email notices,<br>> > you'll want to install and configure an MTA (Message Transfer Agent). I<br>> > recommend Postfix, but exim4 also works. The default SendMail also works,<br>> > but I've found it a bit less flexible and thus a little more frustrating.<br>> ><br>> > You'll also need to be comfortable with the crontab, so you can set up<br>> > nightly jobs like fines, overdue notices, and backups. This is one part<br>> > syntax (knowing how to put an entry on crontab) and one part text editor<br>> > familiarity (vi or nano, typically).<br>> <br>> That's the major bonus with using the debian packages, they pull in<br>> all the dependencies for you, and set up the cron jobs for you also.<br>> <br>> I strongly recommend anyone running a production install of Koha uses<br>> the packages. Running out of version control is fine while you are<br>> developing, but the stability of the packages and ease of deployment<br>> and upgrade make them the natural choice for a production environment.<br>> <br>> Chris<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org<br>> Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<br>> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha<br></div> </div></body>
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