[Koha] Fwd: web based installation documentation?
Joshua Ferraro
jmf at liblime.com
Tue Jul 18 14:42:31 NZST 2006
Hi Truth,
You can install Koha on most any subscription-based web service, you can
also pay an existing Koha company to host it for you (see a list of
companies that do this on the Pay for Support site on koha.org). As
far as improving the documentation for how to install Koha on a
subscription-based web service, submissions are welcome.
And just for the record, LibLime does provide fully-hosted solutions
that you can just 'load your records' into. Hope that helps answer
your questions.
Sincerely,
--
Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support
LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS
jmf at liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |2(888)KohaILS
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 08:17:47AM -0400, Stephen Hedges wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
>
>
>
> 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
> 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.X is 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
> installation for assistance)
>
>
>
> GD Libraries To take advantage of the image resizing
> functions in Jinzora you'll need the
> Boutell.com GD image libraries . To install
> these (these are ROUGH guidelines)
>
> Windows Users:
> 1. Download the GD Library from us (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 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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