[Koha] Koha on NT/2000/XP - Update/Thoughts/Ideas

[Andrew Hooper]

Hi All,

I tinkered with getting Koha (1.0/1.1) working on NT/2000 using IIS
(instead of Apache) but using downloadable versions of Perl and MySQL
for NT.

I was making progress on the challenges of moving the html files to IIS
from Apache style - major issues were:
1. Root relative referencing is different (ie what having a slash /url
means) on NT/IIS it would be preferable to have it all (including OPAC)
structured a little differently
2. Because the html's have insert statements, we either need to change
the extensions to .htms and do some messing with IIS config to using the
.include .DLL parser (fairly simple, but if missed nothing works).

PERL & MySQL seemed to work fine, but I was hampered by some of the
"bugginess" in 1.1 of Koha and a total lack of info on the database and
how to populate it.

I managed to get an ODBC connection going from NT to the MySQL database
which meant I could use familiar Database tools to access the database
but still no real clue how to populate. So, the project somewhat
stopped.

I'd like to have a go again now that I see a new version of Koha is out
- and I understand it has a better install script and sample database?

Some advise from folks on how smoothly new versions of Koha are running
on Linux (and what versions please).

Best Regards

Andrew Hooper



-----Original Message-----
From: koha-admin at lists.katipo.co.nz
[mailto:koha-admin at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Larry Currie
Sent: Friday, 9 August 2002 3:43 a.m.
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Cc: Stan Blum
Subject: [Koha] Koha status

My systems administrator is trying to set up our Apache server from
scratch, and he has run into difficulties as outlined below.  Can anyone
give him a hand with some troublshooting?  I am also going to give him
instructions for getting onto the koha support irc channel, so he may be
going online to seek further assistance that way.  His name is Stan Blum
and his email address is sblum at calacademy.org.

Larry Currie


I did all the setup stuff for apache, but can't get it to start.  I'm 
trying to run it on the second network card, which is 198.31.79.74 and
has 
the name informatics.calacademy.org.  There should be no other
applications 
using this address.

The apache error_log gives the following :

getpeername: Socket operation on non-socket
getsockname: Socket operation on non-socket
Error getting local address

I think this might mean that the second card is not "registered" in the 
appropriate configuration file for the operating system (it hasn't been 
used before).  However, it does appear to be functioning because I can
ping 
the IP address successfully from another machine (although I haven't yet

tried unplugging the network cable and seeing if that disables
ping-ability 
-- something I should probably test to ensure this ping response is from

the right source.)

When I run netstat -tnlc, I don't get any listings for the 198.31.79.74
IP 
address; just ...73 and the localhost.   I'm not sure that's the right 
thing to check, but I thought I'd try it.  BTW, no one will be able to
see 
...74 from the outside, or ping anything else, because of the firewall.

If you could pass this info on to someone with redhat - apache
experience, 
I think we could sort it out pretty quickly -- or at least get to the
next 
step, the apache configuration file, which confuses me because it has 
separate entries for
Listen (IP address:port)
BindAddress, and
Port

I'm also not sure about the inetd versus standalone setting and the
owner 
and group settings.


-Stan
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