Installing koha on window
Hi How it will be possible that we can install koha on Microsoft windows?
Arshad Iqbal schreef op di 09-12-2014 om 08:14 [+0500]:
How it will be possible that we can install koha on Microsoft windows?
Erasing Windows from the computer and replacing it with Debian or Ubuntu GNU/Linux is the best method. Secondarily, you can install Linux inside a virtual machine system, for example VirtualBox. This has the downside that you are still running Windows on your system though. Windows is not a supported platform for running Koha on otherwise, as no one does that, and it's more expensive and arguably less capable than Linux as a server operating system. -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF
Greetings, I think the problem is that some people do not understand the difference between a desktop application and a web-based application. The key difference being where is the processing done, and where does the visual output show up. A desktop application running under Windows, means the program needs to be written specifically to run on Windows, because the processing and display are on that specific desktop computer. Windows is doing the processing, and Windows is doing the displaying. A web application is different. The processing is done elsewhere. To install Koha, you are actually installing the thing that does the processing, not what does the displaying, because any* browser on any** computer can view and use Koha. * there are limitations, but not because of Koha, but rather because some browsers are really awful. ** there are limitations, because to access you actually have to be able to network the server where you installed Koha to the client's computer where the browser is calling from. Just in case this was the conversation that needed to occur. :) GPML, Mark Tompsett
Is it possible, though, to run Koha on a **VIRTUAL**Linux/Debian production server which is actually a windows server? Thanks, Jesse On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Mark Tompsett <mtompset@hotmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,
I think the problem is that some people do not understand the difference between a desktop application and a web-based application. The key difference being where is the processing done, and where does the visual output show up.
A desktop application running under Windows, means the program needs to be written specifically to run on Windows, because the processing and display are on that specific desktop computer. Windows is doing the processing, and Windows is doing the displaying.
A web application is different. The processing is done elsewhere. To install Koha, you are actually installing the thing that does the processing, not what does the displaying, because any* browser on any** computer can view and use Koha.
* there are limitations, but not because of Koha, but rather because some browsers are really awful. ** there are limitations, because to access you actually have to be able to network the server where you installed Koha to the client's computer where the browser is calling from.
Just in case this was the conversation that needed to occur. :)
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* Jesse Lambertson (jlambertson@sqcc.org) wrote:
Is it possible, though, to run Koha on a **VIRTUAL**Linux/Debian production server which is actually a windows server?
Yes Chris -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand
Thank you Chris. It looks like this is what we will need to do. All the pieces are coming together slowly but surely. Best, Jesse On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
Is it possible, though, to run Koha on a **VIRTUAL**Linux/Debian
* Jesse Lambertson (jlambertson@sqcc.org) wrote: production
server which is actually a windows server?
Yes
Chris
-- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand
-- Jesse A Lambertson Librarian Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center 1100 16th St, NW Washington, DC 20036 Ph: (202)-677-3967 Ext. 104 jlambertson@sqcc.org
One more question on the topic of virtual servers running on Windows... What are people finding as good standard available RAM for Koha instances on Virtual Servers? 2, Gb, 4Gb, 6Gb, 8 Gb, etc? Thank you, Jesse On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Jesse Lambertson <jlambertson@sqcc.org> wrote:
Thank you Chris.
It looks like this is what we will need to do.
All the pieces are coming together slowly but surely.
Best,
Jesse
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
Is it possible, though, to run Koha on a **VIRTUAL**Linux/Debian
* Jesse Lambertson (jlambertson@sqcc.org) wrote: production
server which is actually a windows server?
Yes
Chris
-- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand
-- Jesse A Lambertson Librarian Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center 1100 16th St, NW Washington, DC 20036
Ph: (202)-677-3967 Ext. 104 jlambertson@sqcc.org
-- Jesse A Lambertson Librarian Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center 1100 16th St, NW Washington, DC 20036 Ph: (202)-677-3967 Ext. 104 jlambertson@sqcc.org
Hi Jessie
One more question on the topic of virtual servers running on Windows...
What are people finding as good standard available RAM for Koha instances on Virtual Servers?
2, Gb, 4Gb, 6Gb, 8 Gb, etc?
it depends. In my opinion the more indicative values are: -- Your number of bib and auth -- Your circulations requests in 1 minute. If you are under 25,000 biblio and 1 circ every 5 minutes probably with same tuning and attention you can use 1-1,5 Gb of Ram. Bye Zeno Tajoli
Thank you Zeno. On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Zeno Tajoli <z.tajoli@cineca.it> wrote:
Hi Jessie
One more question on the topic of virtual servers running on Windows...
What are people finding as good standard available RAM for Koha instances on Virtual Servers?
2, Gb, 4Gb, 6Gb, 8 Gb, etc?
it depends. In my opinion the more indicative values are: -- Your number of bib and auth -- Your circulations requests in 1 minute.
If you are under 25,000 biblio and 1 circ every 5 minutes probably with same tuning and attention you can use 1-1,5 Gb of Ram.
Bye Zeno Tajoli
-- Jesse A Lambertson Librarian Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center 1100 16th St, NW Washington, DC 20036 Ph: (202)-677-3967 Ext. 104 jlambertson@sqcc.org
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