On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 06:02:32PM +0200, Matthias & Melanie Kasimir <wahr@epost.de> said:
Hi Chris,
Hi Matthias
I do very much appreciate your help. Since I am new to koha (just had it installed for us), it will take some time for me to chew on your answer. You can be sure that I will try it and report as to the effect of any changes I make.
Excellent thats great.
Does it make sense to wait and install koha 2.0.x once it is out? Or will it be as difficult as installing 1.2.3, so I should stick to what is already installed? Or is it easy normally an I just screwed up and made it more complicated than it is? I did not expect a point- and-click installation, but something like extract *.tgz and run configure-script, then make and make-install and go.
Id wait and go for 2.0 when it is out, it has a lot of new features, and quite a few bug fixes from 1.2.3. And should be as easy as tar xzvf koha-2.0.0.tar.gz cd koha-2.0.0 ./installer.pl (Thats the plan anyway:-))
One other thing to consider is, wether the migration of data entered in 1.2.3 to 2.0.x will be straightforward for unxeperienced users. If not, we better refrain from entering any data and wait till 2.0.x.
We will write a script to migrate the data. The actual data that is in 1.2.3 doesnt change structure for 2.0.0 but there are a whole lot of new tables to populate. Mostly the MARC tables. So we will have the upgrade script do this for you automatically.
Koha will check for basic http authentication as well as for a cookie. So you can set up http authentication anyway you like.
Aha?
1) This still seems not to explain why koha does not accept one authentification in one session.
2) Or does it explain, because my browsers reject koha's cookie in some way unknown to me, although it is configured to accept cookies.
3) Or is the cookie not sent to the browser in the first place?
Its either 2 or 3 :-) If I get a chance over the weekend ill install a 1.2.3 install from scratch and check it out for you.
What we do at HLT is use Apache::AuthDBI to authenticate against table in the koha database. Heres the code in the httpd.conf
Can I just paste the code into httpd.conf and expect it to work?
Ahh nope, You will need to make the users table, and populate, and install the Apache::AuthDBI module for it to work. What I would do is just try it out with a simple .htaccess , .htpasswd and .htgroup files .. I can step you through setting that up if you like?
Btw: Does koha generate barcodes for printout on labels or do I need a special program to do this?
Ahh nope Koha wont do this, lots of people have recommended Kbarcode as a good program to do this.
Greetings from northern Germany,
And Kia Ora, from about the middle of NZ :-) Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz