Hi Dan,
I'm looking forward to newb instructions too.....
We'll hopefully be using OlenILS(Evergreen) in the next year or so...I
hope...
I tried the Ubunto image and it works great but I can't figure out the
setings to access it from outside of the image - From a workstation
running the client nor a browser to the OPAC.
Cheers
Grant Johnson
Systems Coordinator
Robertson Library, UPEI
Dan Wells wrote:
Hello Karen,
I'd like to start by lavishing extreme amounts of praise for your extremely
clear and thorough set of instructions.
Thanks, but I cannot take all the credit. About half of the instructions were
completed by someone else (Dan Scott, I think, before he jumped the Ubuntu ship
for Gentoo), and I completed/refined what he had started.
As for option 1, I actually started out with release 1.0.6.3, ran into some
connection problems, and started over with the newer version in the hopes
that I wouldn't encounter those problems with the newer version.
The rate of change on this project is incredible. My most recent build with
these instructions was less than a month ago (1.0.5.something), and I made a
few small edits at that time to make sure the instructions were as perfect as
possible. 27 days later and they are hopelessly out of date! :o
I skipped because there is no bootstrap.conf, when in reality, I probably
should have made those changes in some other configuration file. Um...
Either opensrf_core.xml or opensrf.xml?
bootstrap.conf is thankfully dead and gone. The settings are pulled from
opensrf_core.xml, but I do not think there is anything really special that needs to be
done in there to make it work. Some of the conf files seems kinda large and scary at
first, but I would suggest reading the main ones over line-by-line, doing your best to
understand what they are doing, and trying to find any "obvious" errors (like
an incorrect username or hostname or password). Once you have an understanding of what
is inside of them, it is almost easier to just go though and make the needed changes than
to follow the specific wiki instructions for editing them.
The list has actually been pretty quiet regarding install errors lately, but
with 2 or 3 people now popping up with problems, I think I will try to find
time tomorrow to install 1.2.0 and see what all the fuss is about :)
Finally, feel free to make edits to the Wiki, but be thick-skinned enough to
not feel bad if I eventually end of changing your changes in some way :)
That's the wiki way I suppose.
Thanks,
DW
