[Koha] Serving an Intranet WebPAC from a Website

Alvaro Cornejo cornejo.alvaro at gmail.com
Sat Jun 27 03:16:14 NZST 2020


Hi

What about embed opac inside a frame into your IIS?

Regards

Alvaro
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Le ven. 26 juin 2020 à 09:47, asakovich at hmcpl.org <asakovich at hmcpl.org> a
écrit :

> Greetings, Bravismore,
>
> That won’t work — the execution of the scripts is done on the Koha host,
> and would never work on an IIS host. If they were pure HTML files, yeah, it
> might work. But the IIS server would see Perl files via a Samba share, not
> HTML output.
>
> An approach that would work would be to setup a proxy on the IIS host that
> would reroute requests to and from the Koha server. However, setting up a
> proxy is fraught with severe security risks. I would strongly discourage
> that unless you have an IIS expert in house with a lot of proxy experience.
>
> The best solution is to expose the OPAC interface to the Internet, for
> performance, simplicity, stability, and security reasons — that is why most
> libraries do that.
>
> Aaron
> --
> Aaron Sakovich
> Internet and Technology Services Manager
>
> Huntsville-Madison County Public Library
> 915 Monroe Street | Huntsville, Alabama 35801 | https://hmcpl.org/
>
>
>
>
> > On Jun 26, 2020, at 08:10, Mumanyi, Bravismore <bmumanyi at unam.na> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Koha Community
> >
> > I have a Koha site that intends to publish their mature WebPAC to the
> globe.
> > However, they decline to assign a public IP and DN.
> >
> > Their preferred route is to serve KOHA pages via their website hosted on
> Windows/IIS.
> > Koha is on Ubuntu/Apache2 webserver.
> >
> > I had thought of using samba to share the Koha opac DocumentRoot, then
> create a virtualhost equivalent on IIS.
> >
> > Before I labour on this, any Koha geeks out there who can advise if this
> will technically work?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Regards
> > /Bravismore
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