[Koha] Fwd: web based installation documentation?

[Stephen Hedges]

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From: Truth Collins <truths at sbcglobal.net>
Date: Jul 11, 2006 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: web based installation documentation?
To: Stephen Hedges <st.hedges at gmail.com>

Dear Steven,

Does "Koha runs on a web server" mean that Koha runs as a software program
on a computer with Windows or Linux or BSD as the operating system?  Or that
Koha can run on a web server; a web server like one you pay a monthly or
annual subscription to?  If the latter is the case, that it can run on a web
server, like one that supports perl scripts, has a  mysql database, and
meets the other requirements, then I would like the instructions to be more
userfriendly as to how to do that.  I am pasting the install documentation
from Jinzora as an example so that you see what I mean.  After you see the
example, could you please tell me if I can do this with Koha?  Or would you
please forward this question to some who knows and would be willing to
reply?  Thank you.

best regards, Truth Collins

*Standalone Installation*

Installing Jinzora in standalone mode is by far the easiest installation. To
install Jinzora in Standalone mode please follow these steps:

 *Download*  You can get Jinzora from the following

Jinzora Downloads Page <http://www.jinzora.com/download/>



  *Extracting*  Once you've got Jinzora downloaded you'll need to extract
the download to your web server.

*Windows:* On Windows we recommend using Winzip <http://www.winzip.com/> to
extract the downloaded .zip file (assuming that's the file you downloaded).

**NIX:* On *NIX you'll need to do a: tar -zxvf jinzora-X.X.tar.gz
(where X.Xis the version number) to extract Jinzora to the current
directory

*Note*: Jinzora WILL create a subdirectory called "jinzora2"



  *Preparing*  *Windows Users:* You MUST make sure that the Jinzora
directory from above is located with in your webserver's root directory
(c:\inetpub\www by default).

You also need to make sure that the webserver has at least read access to
the directory you've extracted Jinzora to (which it should unless you've
changed things...)

**NIX Users:* To make installing Jinzora on *NIX easier (and for those that
have SSH access) we've provided a script that will setup everything for
Jinzora's installation. Please simply run:

sh configure.sh

Inside the Jinzora directory. This will create the necessary files and setup
the proper permissions so the web based portion of the installation can
complete (if you don't have SSH access don't worry, see FTP
Only<http://jinzora.com/docs/english/ftponly.html>installation for
assistance)



  *GD Libraries*  To take advantage of the image resizing functions in
Jinzora you'll need the Boutell.com GD image
libraries<http://www.boutell.com/gd/>.
To install these (these are ROUGH guidelines)

*Windows Users:*
1. Download the GD Library from
us<http://www.jinzora.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownload&cid=4>(or
get it on the net...)

2. Unzip it to the exact same directory where PHP is installed (c:\php)

3. Edit php.ini (usually in c:\winnt or c:\windows) and edit the following
line:
extension=php_gd2.dll (REMOVE the ; at the beginning of the line)

**NIX Users:* This can be a bit more complicated on *NIX, so we recommend
you view the installation guide located at
Boutell.com<http://www.boutell.com/gd/>for assistance



  *Web Installer*  Now that you've gotten everything ready, browse (in your
favorite web browser) to

http://yoursite/path/to/jinzora/index.php

And you'll be taken through the web based installer. The web based installer
is fully documented and should describe each option that you'll have along
the way.

At the very end the installer you'll be given the option to submit anonymous
stats about your Jinzora installation. We hope you'll submit these stats so
that we can do our best to make Jinzora as powerful as possible. We do not
collect any personal or user specific information of any kind at this step.






*Stephen Hedges <st.hedges at gmail.com>* wrote:

Koha is (technically) web-based -- it runs on a web server using Windows or
Linux or BSD as the server operating system.  But I think what you mean is
what I think is called a web service:  a company or organization actually
hosts the site and the software, and you just add your own records to their
server hardware.  I don't know of any companies that offer that service,
though Liblime might ( www.liblime.com).

Stephen

On 7/8/06, Truth Collins <truths at sbcglobal.net > wrote:
>
> Dear st.hedges,
>
> I request that you coordinate the addition of "web based installation"
> documentation.
>
> I have been attempting to install Koha on a web site for a friend who has
> a non-profit organization http://alexandriawest.org/ and was hoping to
> find documentation for a web based install.  I have installed a couple other
> scripts using web based installation scripts - like Jinzora (http://www.jinzora.com/a media library engine / streamer etc..., script in Php that scans
> directories of a web site for media files and automatically adds them - and
> that has eased process but with Koha I see no documentation for installing
> on a web server.  I see windows and linux and bsd documentation but I don't
> entirely know what that means.
>
> Thank you for considering my concerns,
>
> Truth C.
>
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