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I'm back
by Tonnesen Steve 07 May '01

07 May '01

Okay, after a lengthy hiatus on other projects, I'm back working on Koha for a bit. I have two libraries now that are nearing completion of the data entry stage and will be wanting to start circulating. To facilitate this in my situation, I am populating the borrowers database with the accounts the school already uses for accessing school file servers, email and authenticating proxy servers. I've also created a new table called borrowergroups where I list the groups that borrowers are in in our account administration system (ie Grade 6/7, Kindergarten, etc.) so that the librarians can print out overdue lists for each teacher's class. I also have a session with the district's Librarian association where I think I'm going to get grilled about Koha. They had made a decision to use a program called Alexandria universally throughout the district. The problem is that not all schools can come up with the funds to actually use Alexandria. That's where I came into the picture with Koha. Wish me luck. Steve Tonnesen Coast Mountains School District

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Re: [Koha] includes not obious to me...
by Chris Cormack 30 Apr '01

30 Apr '01

Hi Benedykt, Ah yep this is another glitch in the install. Basically the intranet-html includes are the superset, and opac-html are the subset, that is all the includes ud need are in the intranet-html. So you can point your includes path to be where they are. Sorry about the confusion Chris On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:55:29PM +0200, Benedykt P. Barszcz said: > The INSTALL file says > --- > 6/ Here you need to decide where your scripts and html are going to live. > And edit C4/Output.pm to reflect that. > Set $path= where your includes live, eg. > $path="/usr/local/www/koha/htdocs/includes"; > --- > But there are two sets of includes. > [root@biblioteka koha-1.1.0]# ls opac-html/includes/ > CVS/ join-top.inc members-top.inc opac-bottom.inc opac-top.inc > [root@biblioteka koha-1.1.0]# > > And > [root@biblioteka koha-1.1.0]# ls intranet-html/includes/ > CVS/ circulation-top.inc opac-bottom.inc > aquisitions-bottom.inc issues-bottom.inc opac-top.inc > aquisitions-top.inc issues-top.inc reports-bottom.inc > budgets.inc members-bottom.inc reports-top.inc > cat-bottom.inc members-top.inc > cat-top.inc menus.inc > [root@biblioteka koha-1.1.0]# > > And they are not in ONE directory... how do you guys so easily configure it > to work? > > Benedykt > > > > > -- > uwaga: dobre ksiazki: PHP4. Aplikacje - Visual Basic w Bazach Danych > Jezyk C. Szkola Programowania i inne kupisz: http://www.robomatic.pl > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > Koha(a)lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris(a)katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz

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Re: [Koha] installation question
by Chris Cormack 30 Apr '01

30 Apr '01

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:45:25AM -0500, Jian Liu said: > Hello, > > Before starting, I'd like to know if I can install it in an environment > where I have no access to /etc where koha.conf should be, nor setting up > the virtual host. Basically, I have an account on the web server (apache), > where I can execute cgi scripts but no access to root, and I have access > to mysql on another machine. > Sorry about the late reply. But yes you probably can get this to work. What you can do is edit C4/Output.pm See this line open (KC, "/etc/koha.conf"); (its about line 47) You can make that be your homedir/koha.conf and put the conf file there if you like. You will also have to edit C4/Database.pm line 57: open (KC, "/etc/koha.conf"); to reflect your changes above. Then in your conf file you can set it up to use a remote database. Hope this helps Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris(a)katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz

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on the Cdk perl module...
by Dante D. Dinawanao 29 Apr '01

29 Apr '01

X-Sulat-MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology-IP: 202.78.82.7 Hi, I'm using RedHat 7.0 for my Koha installation. My problem is, I can't get the Cdk perl module working. The README tells me to rebuild the PERL source. Is there any other way to install Cdk perl module without rebuilding the PERL itself? BTW, my PERL installation is not from source. It's from RedHat's RPM PERL installer. Any info is appreciated. Thanks ,~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~, | Dante D. Dinawanao | | Systems/Network Administrator | | Computing and Network Center | | MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology | | A. Bonifacio Avenue | | 9200 Iligan City, Philippines | | | | Email: cc-ddd(a)sulat.msuiit.edu.ph | | URL: http://home.msuiit.edu.ph/~ddd | | Telephone #: +63 (63) 221-4071 | | Cellphone #: +63 09195549699 | |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | "Don't just spout fire-just do it, | | and when it's done, show the world" | | -Linus Torvalds | `~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~' _______________________________________________________________________ This mail was sent through IMP-powered: http://sulat.msuiit.edu.ph/ Are you an MSUan? Join MSU Reunion 2001 http://www.msu-sanjuan2001.com/

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installation question
by Jian Liu 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

Hello, Before starting, I'd like to know if I can install it in an environment where I have no access to /etc where koha.conf should be, nor setting up the virtual host. Basically, I have an account on the web server (apache), where I can execute cgi scripts but no access to root, and I have access to mysql on another machine. Thnaks Jian

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mailing lists
by Glee & Raleigh 14 Apr '01

14 Apr '01

Please add me to your mailing list.

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koha setup problems
by Zeki Celikbas 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

hi everybody, i'm working on installation koha. I'm using Mandrake 7.2 on my server. in fact i'm a newbie on linux. first of all I've print of out installation file and I've made all of them step by step but there are some parts which I don't understand. Of course there are some problems. For example all the virtual host are working but when I want to made a query a blank screen came across me on browser. This is the steps I've made: 1/ Create a new mysql database [OK] 2/ Set up a username and password in mysql [OK] 3/ Use the mysql script to create the tables [OK] 4/ Edit koha.conf [OK] 5/ Copy koha.conf to /etc/ [OK] >------------------- IMPORTANT--------------- >the permissions on this config file should also be strict, since >they contain the database password. At a minimum, the apache >user needs to be able to read it, as well as any other user that >runs circ. I would suggest ownership of www-data.libadmins with >no access to others. libadmins contain all users that use koha. (If >you set the owner as www-data u will need to make sure apache >is running as www-data) >------------------------------------------------------- (I didn't understant this paragraph perhaps the problem's reason is at that terms.) 6/ $path="/usr/local/www/koha/htdocs/includes"; [OK] Next copy the C4 directory (in scripts/) to somewhere in ur perl path eg /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux/ Right we are now ready to set up our opac 1/ Set up a webspace for the opac [OK] 2/ In your opac dir make a dir called htdocs, [OK] 3/ Again in ur opac dir make a dir called cgi-bin [OK] 4/ Your virtual host should be set up to use these dirs [OK] 5/ Ok, restart apache [OK] Now we can set up the intranet/librarian interface 1/ Set up another webspace lets call it koha [OK] 2/ In the dir you have just created make an htdocs [OK] 3/ Make sure ur virtual host is set up to use these dirs [OK] 4/ Restart apache point your browser at koha.your.site [OK] Zeki Celikbas Librarian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Istanbul Technical University e:mailto:celikbas@itu.edu.tr Faculty of Aero. & Astro. w:http://www2.itu.edu.tr/~celikbas 80626 Maslak Istanbul Turkey t:(212)2853108 f: (212)2853139 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: Systempreferences table
by glen_stewart＠associate.com 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

Steve, This is a great idea. I'm adding some prefs to control whether Member Numbers and Barcode numbers increment automatically, and this table will fit that need perfectly. May I suggest the following change to enable editing with phpMyAdmin CREATE TABLE systempreferences ( variable char(50) NOT NULL, value char(200), PRIMARY KEY (variable) );

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Tips for Koha 1.10 installation
by glen_stewart＠associate.com 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

As I've been reviewing Koha 1.10 prior to installation, I've found several problems. Here are some tips to help you if you plan to install before the problems are fixed in the next release: 1. find all references to "image src" in the package, and replace them with "img src". This is an old bug from pre-1.07. 2. the front-member.gif in the intranet-html/images folder is corrupt. Get an old copy from a previous release of Koha and use it instead. 3. Koha is still mis-programmed to require Server-Side-Includes from .html files. This puts an undue burden on the server and does not follow standards that say these files should be named .shtml. Fixing this will require a lot of searching and renaming. I'd like to know how many folks run Koha and Opac on the same server. If you do, the Koha 1.10 package will not run as provided, since it assumes at least a <VirtualHost> configuration and 2 domain names. Would you prefer that Koha be provided so it can all run on the same server without this?

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Koha-1.1.0 availiable
by Chris Cormack 26 Feb '01

26 Feb '01

Hi all Koha version 1.1.0 is now available for download from http://www.koha.org/download/ It should be available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/koha/ very soon also. Lots of changes in this version, hence the jump to 1.1.0 The biggest changes are to do with circulation. There is now a comprehensive circulation API which makes building circulation modules to use your chosen interface much much easier. There is also now a web based circulation section that uses this module. Im planning to rewrite the telnet based circ to use slang and the new API. Version 1.1.1 is likely to follow closely on 1.1.0's heels so if bugs are spotted please report them to me and ill fix them before 1.1.1 Thanks Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris(a)katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz

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