[Koha] Koha 3.20 and Plack Server

[Craig Butosi]

Hi all,

I'm tinkering with Plack on Koha 3.20.04 (Ubuntu x64 14.04 LTS). I followed the (somewhat outdated) instructions here: http://www.generalthreat.com/2013/04/serving-koha-common-with-plack/ and made sure that my pathways were corrected in the scripts. I'm using the port 5000 option rather than the unix socket option. After restarting koha-common, I received the following output:

root at vps43351:~# service koha-common restart
 * Restarting Koha ILS koha-common
Stopping Zebra server for library
Stopping Plack servers for library
Servers stopped
SIP server for library not running.
Starting Zebra server for library
Starting OPAC Plack server for library

/usr/share/koha/misc/plack/unlock-opac-plack.sh: 3: /usr/share/koha/misc/plack/unlock-opac-plack.sh: Syntax error: "&" unexpected
/usr/share/koha/misc/plack/opac-plack.sh: 5: /usr/share/koha/misc/plack/opac-plack.sh: Syntax error: "&" unexpected
The above looks as if Plack is up and running, but the syntax warning for opac-plack.sh is puzzling. I'm not entirely sure whether there is a syntax error in the code; everything looks correct, but I could be missing something here. Does anyone have any suggestions or advice on how to proceed? I'd love to get Plack up and running to see the performance difference. If there's a better way to install Plack or configure it for 3.20, I am all ears too!

My opac-plack.sh file is as follows:

#!/bin/sh
# --max-requests = decreased from 1000 to 50 to keep memory usage sane
# --workers = number of cores on machine

test ! -z "$1" && site=$1 && shift
dir=`dirname $0`

export KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/sites/$site/koha-conf.xml
export OPACDIR="$( xmlstarlet sel -t -v 'yazgfs/config/opacdir' $KOHA_CONF | sed 's,/cgi-bin/opac,,' )"
export LOGDIR="$( xmlstarlet sel -t -v 'yazgfs/config/logdir' $KOHA_CONF )"

export MEMCACHED_SERVERS=localhost:11211
export MEMCACHED_NAMESPACE=$site

PIDFILE=/var/run/koha/$site/opac-plack.pid

#SOCKET=/var/run/koha/$site/opac-plack.sock
PORT=5000

# uncomment to enable logging
opt="$opt --access-log $LOGDIR/opac-access.log --error-log $LOGDIR/opac-error.log"
opt="$opt -M FindBin --max-requests 50 --workers 2 -E deployment"

if [ $SOCKET ]; then
    opt="$opt --listen $SOCKET -D --pid $PIDFILE"
elif [ $PORT ]; then
    opt="$opt --port $PORT -D --pid $PIDFILE"
fi

/usr/bin/starman $opt $dir/koha.psgi

Many thanks!

Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, B Mus (Hons.)
LIBRARY SERVICES MANAGER
the royal conservatory
TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
273 Bloor Street West Toronto, ON  M5S 1W2
416.408.2824 x338
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