[Koha] 1.2.0 Problems

[Shane Williams]

I've been watching Koha's progress for a couple of years now.  I tried
1.04, had some install troubles (with CDK in particular) and put it on
the backburner.

In any case, I decided 1.20 was a good point to reassess things.
Things are looking much better (thank you so much for the web
interface, now I don't have to monkey with CDK).  That said, I've had
a number of problems with 1.20 as well. Looking at the recent list
archive I can see that others are having trouble with 1.2.0 as well.

I just wanted to lay out a few of the problems I've had (some may be
repititions of other's posts).

1) Several links to koha.some.where/cgi-bin/koha/etc. that failed
based on the example <VirtualHost> entries.  My solution was to change
my ScriptAlias entry in httpd.conf to:

   ScriptAlias  /cgi-bin/koha/ /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/
instead of:
   ScriptAlias  /cgi-bin/ /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/


2) On the members/index.html there's a link to members/results-add.html,
but no such file exists.


3) The other problem, which Pete mentioned in his "koha install problems
on RH 7.2 MORE DATA" is that all but one of the scripts in
koha/cgi-bin/admin/ have compilation problems.  For instance, running
perl -cw branches.pl leads to:

Scalar value @biblioitems[$x] better written as $biblioitems[$x] at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/C4/Reserves2.pm line 189,
<KC> line 6.
"my" variable $sth masks earlier declaration in same scope at
branches.pl line 192, <KC> line 6.
Too many arguments for C4::Output::mklink at branches.pl line 262,
near "'')"
branches.pl had compilation errors.


4) A few other notes.  In the INSTALL file, there are a few confusing
spots.  One is that database name in all the mysql commands is Koha,
but in the sample koha.conf file it's koha.  Also, at least with perl
5.005 the -I option must come before the script name, so the command:

perl scripts/updater/updatedatabase -I /pathtoC4
should probably read (and why not point to the pathtoC4 dir):

perl -I modules/ scripts/updater/updatedatabase


All in all though, things are looking good.  Once the admin scripts
get fixed up, I'll start showing it off to the folks here at the
Library and Information Science School.  Thanks for all the hard work.

-- 
Public key #7BBC68D9 at            |                 Shane Williams
http://pgp.mit.edu/                | Systems Administrator UT-GSLIS
=----------------------------------+-------------------------------
All syllogisms contain three lines |         broot at gslis.utexas.edu
Therefore this is not a syllogism  |   www.gslis.utexas.edu/~shanew