[Koha] switching from 'standard' to 'dev'

Tue Aug 12 12:54:29 NZST 2008

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Brendan Gallagher <gallabr at biblio.org> wrote:
>
> No Luck --  (after running rebuild_zebra.pl none of my records are
> searchable) - zebra is running, all the files I can think of are pointing to
> the koha-dev and kohaclone, plus making appropriate changes to
> record.abs....
>
> Back to the drawing board in the morning.
>
> Should I see the web-installer page after I have re-installed from standard
> to dev?  just curious because I did not see this happen...
Are you sure your Koha installation is running off of the new filesystem install
and not the old one? Did you remove the old koha httpd.conf and koha-conf.xml
files to be sure?

The web installer wouldn't show up because your database is already created
and running.

Josh

> Thanks,
> Brendan
>
>
> On Aug 11, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Brendan Gallagher wrote:
>
>> All -
>>
>> I have created the new symlink for the koha site  (it appears in the /
>> etc/apache2/sites-available)...
>>
>> I did not see a web-installer when navigating to the koha-
>> intranet....  should I see one when I make the reinstall from standard
>> to dev  (I was already on Koha 3.00.00.107)...
>>
>>
>>
>> Made all my changes in the record.abs indexers and I am now rerunning
>> the zebra-indexer.  (the indexer is showing the correct directories in
>> kohaclone like it did before)
>>
>> --I will let you all know what I see after the indexer completes.
>>
>> Further response in message below.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brendan
>>
>>
>> On Aug 11, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Joshua Ferraro wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Brendan,
>>>
>>> Can you please post your responses to the list, that way they are
>>> archived for
>>> others to see and others may spot stuff I don't.
>>>
>>> First off, are you on debian, and are you running apache2? Are you
>>> familiar with
>>> the apache2 sites-available and sites-enabled paradigm and with the
>>> 'a2ensite'
>>> and 'a2enmod' utilities? These are the best starting places :-)
>>
>> I have some kind of idea --
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Josh
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Brendan Gallagher
>>> <gallabr at biblio.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ln –s /root/koha-dev/etc/koha-httpd.conf /etc/apache2/sites-
>>>> available/koha
>>>> ln: target `/etc/apache2/sites-available/koha' is not a directory
>>>>
>>>> Stuck here...
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 11, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Joshua Ferraro wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Brendan Gallagher <gallabr at biblio.org
>>>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I need a little help...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just recently tried to switch my Koha 3 install from a
>>>>>> 'standard' to a
>>>>>> 'dev' install...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These are the steps that I completed...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. cd kohaclone
>>>>>> 2. git pull  --> (to get the most recent release)
>>>>>> 3. perl Makefile.PL
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you choose 'dev' at this point, and use the same database name,
>>>>> database
>>>>> user name, password, etc.?
>>
>> Yes - same for everything....
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 4. make
>>>>>> 5. make test
>>>>>> 6. make install
>>>>>
>>>>> At this point you should have fines in /home/myuser/koha-dev.
>>>>> Rather than
>>>>> use
>>>>> the koha-httpd.conf from before you want to symlink
>>>>> home/myuser/koha-dev/etc/koha-httpd.conf
>>>>> to /etc/apache2/sites-available/koha and then a2ensite koha. You
>>>>> no longer
>>>>> need that older installation's filesystem /user/share/koha or
>>>>> wherever
>>>>> else
>>>>> the old install files are, everything's now in kohaclone, and
>>>>> /home/myuser/koha-dev.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 7. make changes to the koha-httpd.conf  (navigated to the intranet
>>>>>> homepage
>>>>>> and never got the web-installer screen like I did for all other
>>>>>> upgrades/installs)
>>>>>> 8. export KOHA_DIR and PERL5LIB
>>
>> Those are the directories that I identified....
>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Make sure PERL5LIB is kohaclone, and KOHA_CONF is
>>>>> /home/myuser/koha-dev/etc/koha-conf.xml
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope that helps,
>>>>>
>>>>> Josh
>>>>>
>>>>>> 9.. rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r (from the kohaclone/misc/migration_tools
>>>>>> directory)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I originally made changes to my zebra indexer located here
>>>>>> /etc/koha/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/record.abs
>>>>>>   after all this I know that I must make changes to the zebra
>>>>>> indexer
>>>>>> /etc/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/record.abs  --> but I can
>>>>>> not find
>>>>>> that file... all I can find is this location -->
>>>>>> /root/kohaclone/etc/zebradb/marc_defs/marc21/biblios/record.abs
>>>>>> and I
>>>>>> made
>>>>>> the changes here plus ran my zebra indexer --> no luck
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All of the changes/configs that I made in the standard install have
>>>>>> transferred to my new set up -- but none of my records or index's
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> changed. I realize that I need to reindex but I am stuck since
>>>>>> rebuilding
>>>>>> does not show my records...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All of my item records are in the 949 field and not the 952
>>>>>> field(koha
>>>>>> default).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Brendan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>> Brendan A. Gallagher
>>>>>> Software Services Coordinator
>>>>>> Bibliomation, INC.
>>>>>> Middlebury, CT 06762
>>>>>> http://www.biblio.org
>>>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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