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confusing sudo a2enmod rewrite command
by vimal kumar 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Dear Friend, Our server OS is Red Hat EL-5. EL-5 has not Apache 2. Our system admin confused with the command "sudo a2enmod rewrite" while Koha 3 installation. He says that this command work only with Apache 2. How can we manage this command with EL-5? Any equivalent command available? or any other way to execute this command? With thanks, Vimal Kumar Asst. Librarian Asian School of Business Technopark Trivandrum-695 581 http://www.asb.edu.in/vimal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -Patrick White

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Finding Imported Records
by John S. Moss 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

I have Koha installed on a Win XP system. I used the bulk import script by typing this at the command prompt: C:\usr\koha229\scripts\misc\migration_tools\bulkmarcimport.pl -file F:\work\marcfile_dat\marcfile.dat I type in Intranet in Firefox and login. I perform a search for a term I know is in the many of the records, but get no hits. I do the same search after typing OPAC in Firefox and still get no hits. How do I confirm that the records were sucessfully imported? Is this the correct script? Thanks for any help, John

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Koha3 beta 2 on debian
by mohamed megahed 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi to all i install koha 3 beta 2 on debian sarge 4.0 r3 etch I follow the installation guide to install koha and everything is default setting: 1. perl Makefile.PL (you will be prompted to answer a number of questions) 2. make 3.(optional) make test 4. sudo make install 5. sudo ln -s /etc/koha/koha-httpd.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/koha (note that the path to koha-httpd.conf may be different depending on your installation choices) 6. sudo a2enmod rewrite 7. sudo a2ensite koha && /etc/init.d/apache2 reload 8. sudo zebrasrv -f /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml (note that you will want to run Zebra in daemon mode for a production system) 9. Browse to http://servername:8080 step 9 did not get any connect and i get error : “servername” refused the connection. The server may be busy or you may have a network connection problem. Try again later. please help me thnks _________________________________________________________________ Explore the seven wonders of the world http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

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Koha Joomla and LDAP
by Siju George 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hi, I have an Existing College website running on Joomla. I plan to authenticate users using LDAP soon. Can I Install Koha in such a way that the Koha implementation uses the above said LDAP server to Authenticate users? Is there any HowTo Available on Koha LDAP Integration? Thanks Siju

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Nifty Article
by BWS Johnson 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Salvete! The New York Times ran a cool article here: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html entitled "The Web Time Forgot" which lends further credence to my theory that Francophones named Paul are in fact indispensable. (Not, of course, meant to mean that other French speakers are less loved!) It's a good read from a design perspective, and you can kill a couple minutes when the boss isn't looking over yer shoulder. Cheers, Brooke

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Replacing Logo's in the Intranet
by Gautam John 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

Hello: We've been trying to replace the Koha logo in the Intranet/Staff Client but have been unsuccessful. We've replaced: /intranet-tmpl/prog/img/koha-logo.gif /intranet-tmpl/prog/img/koha-logo-medium.gif But it doesn't seem to work. Are we doing this wrong? Thank you. Best, Gautam -- Please read our new blog at: http://blog.prathambooks.org/

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Investigating Koha: import formats
by Lucy Pearson 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

Hi all, I'm new to the list, and have only just begun investigating Koha, so apologies if I ask any silly questions! I'm at the stage of investigating Koha to see if it is suitable for my needs, and I'd really appreciate it if I could draw on your collective expertise. I have a specific question about Koha, but I'll also give a bit of detail on my circumstances, in case anyone has any more general ideas which can help me. *A bit of background:* I work for a new archive which has a relatively substantial book collection (c. 20,000 items). Up until last year, these were completely uncatalogued and unlisted, so we've been working on a project to list our holdings. The plan is that once we have a handlist we can assess the collection, weed substantially and then put in place a formal cataloguing strategy. This last will include identifying a suitable LMS - we use DServe's CALM for the archive material, and may also put the books on there, but as it's primarily a museums / archive platform we have some reservations about that. To get a handlist quickly, we've catalogued using Readerware <http://www.readerware.com/> , which lets you scan barcodes and searches the web for the data associated with those ISBNs. Now we're at a point where we would really like to make it easy for people outside our library site to access this list, even though it's not a proper catalogue. So, we basically need a web OPAC - Readerware is not at all equipped to supply this. In the long term it would be really good to be using a standards-compliant library catalogue. so if I can migrate my data over to Koha that would be great for forward-planning. *My Koha question: *Is it possible to import data to Koha in CSV or tab-delimited format? Unfortunately, none of my existing data has MARC records - I can export into those tewo formats, so I need a database which can accept those. I strongly suspect the answer is no, but I wanted to be absolutely sure before I abandoned Koha completely. In addition, I'm hoping that if this * isn't* possible, this list of tech-savvy librarians might have good advice on alternatives. At this stage, I don't actually need a full-scale LMS - I just want a web app I can import my data to and which will allow users to seacrch by title, author, etc. (I've already explored LibraryThing, but for various reasons it's not really suitable.) It needs to be free software or very cheap, because we're so low on funds and this is an interim project.If I *could* get my data into Koha,a it would be perfect, because the full-scale LMS features are there if we need them, and the organisation would be able to buy in support if they found themseves without enough tech-savvy in house. Any advice? I'll be most appreciative of any and all help! Thanks! Lucy

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Re: [Koha] Koha 3.0 Stable Release Plan
by selma aslan 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

Hi Thnaks to the Development Team for their hard work on fixes. It would be nice if the strings done could be accepted immediately --if it isn't a time taking process--, and the the string freeze date could be postponed to 23 June allowing us a WEEKEND TO WORK, apart from the two weeks which will be allowed after the stable release. We have completed the translation of the staff file into Turkish in addition to OPAC file, but would like to make some corrections and fill gaps which occurred during move from Alpha to Beta. Below is the list of team members for translation into Turkish for record. Cheers Selma Aslan Kutuphane ve Dokumantasyon Muduru TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi Selma Aslan Asir Doganer Doc. Dr. M. Emin Kucuk Mehmet Ali Yar İlkay Holt Haydar Yalcin S. Cihan Dogan Adem Aydemir Message: 6 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:01:34 -0400 From: "Joshua Ferraro" <jmf(a)liblime.com> Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha 3.0 Stable Release Plan To: "koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org" <koha-devel(a)lists.koha.org>, koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz Message-ID: <2dfa91e40806161301p264bca72ha6f10bc837f819b1(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi folks, Well, here we are: Monday June 16th. Based on the feedback to my last post announcing a proposed release date I've decided to hold off for a week and aim for Friday the 20th as the RC1 / string freeze date. I'm still hopeful that we'll have the final release ready for July 1st. In terms of statistics, we're down to 35 bugs marked blocker, major or critical (down from 39 on May 21): http://tinyurl.com/5hysmf There are now 159 marked 'normal' (up from 157 on May 21): http://tinyurl.com/3lmp67 So in summary, we had a lot of new bugs added, and fixed, so though there has been activity, it doesn't look like it on paper :-). The entire LibLime development team will be working exclusively on bugfixing this week and I'm hopeful we'll be in a position to release on Friday. Feel free to join the effort, we'll be on IRC all week! Thanks again to all the contributors to this release. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE CEO migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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installation Error on Linux
by shriram pandey 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

Hello List, I got an errot during installtion of koha 2.2.5 at Creating database level.Althought i checked that , it is creating database by named Koha.At the end it is also giving successfully installed message.But main problem is that it is not opening in browser.Is i need to configure our apache web server or any othe files. I am giving deatil of error during installation.hope anybody will help me to solve this problem.-- ---------------- CREATING DATABASE Creating the MySQL database for Koha... ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 1: Duplicate entry 'localhost-kohaadmin' for key 1 256ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 1: Duplicate entry '%-Koha-kohaadmin' for key 1 synch'ing borrowers creating column textmessaging creating column password creating column flags creating column userid creating column homezipcode creating column zipcode creating column sort1 creating column sort2 synch'ing items creating column itemcallnumber synch'ing biblio synch'ing biblioitems creating column place ------......... at the end ------------------ INSTALLATION COMPLETE Congratulations ... your Koha installation is complete! You will be able to connect to your Librarian interface at: http://localhost:8080/ use the koha admin mysql login and password to connect to this interface. and the OPAC interface at: http://localhost:80/ Regards, Shri Ram Pandey Information and Knowledge Management Trainee NCSI,Indian Institute Of Science,Bangalore(INDIA)

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Koha 3 with zebra - no search results
by Paul Landers 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

We're evaluating Koha 3 with zebra. Both the OPAC and Intranet searches stopped returning any results once we successfully enabled LDAP support in koha-conf.xml per the man page for Auth_with_ldap.pm. The added stanza in koha-conf.xml is:  <server id="ldapserver" listenref="ldapserver"> <hostname>our_ldap_server</hostname> . . . </server> The logged errors seem to imply zebra is choking on this stanza: Errors logged in koha-zebradaemon-output.log - 15:49:03-13/06 [warn] Non-existent listenref 'ldapserver' in server config element 15:49:03-13/06 [fatal] Unknown element 'hostname' in config /etc/koha/ koha-conf.xml Errors logged in koha-zebradaemon.err - 20080613 15:47:02 koha-zebra-ctl.koha: client (pid 19682) exited with 1 status 20080613 15:47:02 koha-zebra-ctl.koha: client (pid 19683) exited with 1 status 20080613 15:47:02 koha-zebra-ctl.koha: client (pid 19684) exited with 1 status 20080613 15:47:02 koha-zebra-ctl.koha: terminating too quickly, waiting 30 seconds As a side note, l also noticed errors in koha-opac-error_log about a non-existent directory: [Fri Jun 13 15:12:15 2008] [error] [client my_ip_address] File does not exist: /usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs/intranet-tmpl Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks!

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