Hi Micheas (and all) I have been working on a port of Koha onto NT/200/XP for a while now Progress was delayed while I waited for Koha 1.2 to be released and for development to generally stabilize. I have been considering starting work on the project again now and have even been able to allocate a spare machine for the task. I will send, as soon as I'm able, an interim report on my experiences to-date. I have made some quite good progress. With: Perl on NT IIS as the web-server My-SQL as the database I have also been tinkering with converting the entire Perl code-base into ASP and converting the SQL-DDL etc over to SQL-Server - progress is a little slower in this area. The versions of Perl and Mysql are so good, that I've been less inclined to tackle this area right now. (<Win/Advocacy>) I happen to work for Microsoft, but this is entirely a private project connected with a 5k+ volume Theological Library with my church. I'm just much more comfortable with the Win32 platform - I did try on RedHat but found the whole platform (esp Apache etc) so different that I was wasting a lot of Library/Koha time on purely platform issues...) Please do write with any experience you've already had - I'd be been to compare notes and start a thread on this topic. All the best Andrew Hooper -----Original Message----- From: koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of micheas Sent: Thursday, 11 July 2002 5:40 p.m. To: Martin Kinyua Cc: 'koha@lists.katipo.co.nz' Subject: Re: [Koha] Installation On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 23:37, Martin Kinyua wrote:
Has anyone out there installed KOHA onto windows 98/2000 etc ? Please let me know.
Not that I've heard of.
Where can I get the installation instructions
I would install: A web server. (http://www.apache.org is what I would go with. You will find other users more able to help you. MySQL http://www.mysql.com CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) http://www.cpan.org ) Perl http://www.perl.org A C compiler. (Visual C++ is probably your best bet. but you might be able to get gcc and cygwin to work.) YAZ http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ (This a library that you must compile yourself according to the website it has only been tested on windows with Visual C++ ) From CPAN you will need to install: Date::Manip DBI Set::Scalar DBD::mysql # or whatever database system you use CDK # Optional AuthenDBI # if you want to use Database based # authentication Net::Z3950 # needed for remote MARC record lookup.
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<advocacy> If you don't have a compelling need to use Windows. Setting up a Debian or FreeBSD box would be _MUCH_ easier. The best help you will get is probably from using Debian. (most of the Developers use it and I use it on my workstation. Once set up you can administer the Debian box from any web browser if you install webmin. If *NIX is uncomfortable to you you can probably find a local Linux Users Group that would be very happy to help you.) On the other hand FreeBSD i Known for it's Stability. 6 of the top ten uptimes listed by netcraft http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html are FreeBSD Servers (It takes an uptime of almost three years to make the top ten.) </advocacy> If you decide to try and get Koha running on a Win32 server please let us know your experience. Good Luck, Micheas