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@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@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.