[Dspace-tech] One DSpace, multiple domains

2010-04-20 Thread Alan Orth
instance to the new domain (/publications.example.org/), and then use mod_rewrite to 301 old URLs (/dspace.example.org/) to the new URL. Thanks, -- Alan Orth a.o...@cgiar.org Linux Systems Administrator, ILRI-Kenya I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has

Re: [Dspace-tech] One DSpace, multiple domains

2010-04-20 Thread Alan Orth
, Alan Orth wrote: Greetings, I've seen the Multiple DSpace Instances wiki page, but I want one DSpace, multiple domains. I'm using DSpace 1.5.2 on behind Apache httpd with a ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse. The server is Linux/Tomcat 5.5/httpd 2.2. Our DSpace instance is running

[Dspace-tech] Migrating stats from 1.5 to 1.6

2010-11-22 Thread Alan Orth
/dspace.solr -m sudo /home/dspace/bin/dspace stats-log-importer -i /home/dspace/log/dspace.solr -m Thanks a bunch, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my

Re: [Dspace-tech] Migrating stats from 1.5 to 1.6

2010-11-23 Thread Alan Orth
with that: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-460 It has a safer default in 1.6+ -- Peter Dietz Systems Developer/Engineer Ohio State University Libraries On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: All, One of the reasons we were so

[Dspace-tech] Strange browse index errors

2010-12-13 Thread Alan Orth
) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Has anyone seem completely rubbish requests like these? Thanks, -- Alan Orth alan.o

[Dspace-tech] NullPointerException for missing items

2011-02-21 Thread Alan Orth
, and it somehow got into an RSS feed or a search engine... Thanks, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor

[Dspace-tech] XMLUI PageNotFound errors

2011-02-24 Thread Alan Orth
doesn't work. Is there any method to the madness? Peter's DSpace git repository is here: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace Thanks, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can

Re: [Dspace-tech] XMLUI PageNotFound errors

2011-02-24 Thread Alan Orth
. dspace= Thanks! Alan On 02/25/2011 10:29 AM, Alan Orth wrote: Hi, I'm testing some installations of DSpace 1.7.0 (on Debian / Tomcat 5.5) and I had a headache after making a few seemingly-trivial changes to the out-of-the-box configuration yesterday. I had changed the default XMLUI theme

Re: [Dspace-tech] XMLUI PageNotFound errors

2011-02-28 Thread Alan Orth
... perhaps your pipeline/page-not-found issues are related to you sitting on trunk/1.8.dev as opposed to tag/1.7.0 if not, then I'll look into the error log you have. Peter Dietz On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.7.2 Released, fixes XMLUI caching of recent submissions and restores Oracle support

2011-06-06 Thread Alan Orth
your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org I have always wished

Re: [Dspace-tech] Stats on 1.5.1, ERROR: invalid input syntax for type timestamp: 2007

2011-10-07 Thread Alan Orth
')); DSpace expects the value of this field to be in the same format you got in your query for last_modified (eg 2008-12-15 09:08:10.66+01). Once you have fixed the date.accessioned value for this item, your statistics script should go through fine. cheers, Andrea -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http

Re: [Dspace-tech] Stats on 1.5.1, ERROR: invalid input syntax for type timestamp: 2007

2011-10-10 Thread Alan Orth
text_value from metadatavalue where metadata_field_id =11 and text_value '2011-10-01' AND text_value '2011-10-31'; Hope this helps, Jose From: Alan Orth [mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 11:16 AM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech

[Dspace-tech] Regenerate monthly reports

2011-10-11 Thread Alan Orth
-tech@lists.sourceforge.net/msg15295.html -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C

Re: [Dspace-tech] Memory isues on Java

2011-10-12 Thread Alan Orth
of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http

Re: [Dspace-tech] bin creation was not successful

2011-10-17 Thread Alan Orth
Sisay, What are the permissions of the directory where you're installing DSpace? $ ls -ld /home/dspace I'm assuming there's a permissions problem, as you're running `ant fresh_install` as your user, and you're installing to a directory outside your home folder (where you probably don't

Re: [Dspace-tech] Regenerate monthly reports

2011-10-17 Thread Alan Orth
the historical log files are there... Thanks! Alan On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, We noticed recently that our monthly stats hadn't run for the month of September.  As it turns out, a batch import had imported some items with malformed

Re: [Dspace-tech] Regenerate monthly reports

2011-10-18 Thread Alan Orth
, in message CAKKdN4Wu-eKf6ff29ruVOCC1EUsQgxevVA6GCPgjPi=bqut...@mail.gmail.com, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Never heard back on this, so I'm re-sending:  We had some bad metadata and didn't realize for a few weeks that our stats scripts were choking.  Now we have a gap in our

Re: [Dspace-tech] Regenerate monthly reports

2011-10-19 Thread Alan Orth
The University of Auckland Library Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand Ph: +64 (0)9 373 7599 x81928 -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace and JQuery

2011-11-06 Thread Alan Orth
-- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace Logs

2011-11-09 Thread Alan Orth
___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come

[Dspace-tech] Monthly stats failing due to items with invalid metadata

2012-01-06 Thread Alan Orth
metadatavalue where metadata_field_id=11 and text_value=''; ... but I'm not sure how to delete those metadata fields from the item? There are several hundred of these items, so it's not practical to get their handles and do it manually... Thanks, Alan -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http

Re: [Dspace-tech] Monthly stats failing due to items with invalid metadata

2012-01-06 Thread Alan Orth
Dietz On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: All, (originally posted in an older thread, but I don't think anyone saw it!)... I've noticed my stats scripts are failing due to incorrect metadata.  It appears some items have been submitted with two

[Dspace-tech] How are people using Solr?

2012-01-18 Thread Alan Orth
visits, popular items, etc. Is there a way to get the same sort of information from Solr? I'm sure the data's there somewhere... Thanks, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Re: [Dspace-tech] How are people using Solr?

2012-01-19 Thread Alan Orth
, Heverlee 3001, Belgium* http://www.atmire.com/www.atmire.com On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, everyone. I'm just curious how people are using Solr stats (DSpace 1.6+). I know they're used automatically by various pages in the XMLUI, but what other

[Dspace-tech] Moving old reports to new server?

2012-02-27 Thread Alan Orth
of reports at: /http://our-dspace.org/statistics/ Am I missing something? Thanks, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use

Re: [Dspace-tech] Moving old reports to new server?

2012-02-27 Thread Alan Orth
Andrea, Ah, you're certainly right. I can now see the historical reports. Thanks a bunch, Alan On 02/28/2012 12:06 AM, Andrea Schweer wrote: Hi Alan, On 28/02/12 02:53, Alan Orth wrote: I'm in the process of moving my DSpace installation to a new server and I'm trying to figure out how

[Dspace-tech] Problems with official git repo?

2012-04-05 Thread Alan Orth
/gitkDSpace_010.png -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C

[Dspace-tech] Log file size and management

2012-04-19 Thread Alan Orth
with these logs? Offline archival? Also, while dspace.log.* are potentially useful if you have to go back and rerun legacy statistics, I'm not sure what cocoon logs are useful for...? Adios, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my

Re: [Dspace-tech] Log file size and management

2012-04-19 Thread Alan Orth
. It's very configurable. Regards, ~~helix84 -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup

[Dspace-tech] git workflow with DSpace 1.8

2012-06-08 Thread Alan Orth
. :) How are other people handling this? -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup

Re: [Dspace-tech] git workflow with DSpace 1.8

2012-06-08 Thread Alan Orth
:44 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Helix, Yeah, I could do that. Maybe something something like dev_modules and prod_modules. I wonder how hard it would be to add an option ant's build script which allowed for the specification of a custom modules location. Maybe something like

[Dspace-tech] next button for collections view?

2012-06-12 Thread Alan Orth
: Community view, showing a large collection: http://i.imgur.com/tArtv.png Inside the collection:http://i.imgur.com/OZclO.png We're using XMLUI. Am I missing some simple config option, or do we need to add something to our theme template? Thanks, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http

Re: [Dspace-tech] next button for collections view?

2012-06-15 Thread Alan Orth
to choose a view from the menu: By Issue Date, Titles, Authors... These views are paginable and display all the results. Regards, ~~helix84 -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my

[Dspace-tech] XMLUI caching, recommended mod_expires settings?

2013-01-29 Thread Alan Orth
ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault A1 /IfModule I'm wondering if Access +1 second is a bit overzealous. Perhaps we should be using the modification time of the file (CSS or GIF, for example). What are you guys using? Thanks! -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http

Re: [Dspace-tech] Private config includes?

2013-02-25 Thread Alan Orth
, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: We currently use git to manage our development / production DSpace instances. Because our github repository is public we don't keep our configs under version control (to protect database passwords, etc). This is a bit of a kludge

[Dspace-tech] Strange issue with DSpace 3.0

2013-03-11 Thread Alan Orth
' parameter is required for list items. Full Java stack trace is here: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=9Mu5EQUU Anyone have an idea what's wrong? My platform is Debian 6, Sun Java 6 1.6.0_18, Tomcat 6. Cheers, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always

Re: [Dspace-tech] Strange issue with DSpace 3.0

2013-03-11 Thread Alan Orth
, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Re: [Dspace-tech] Strange issue with DSpace 3.0

2013-03-11 Thread Alan Orth
PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Helix, Ah, so you're right. For the record, I had been comparing our configs to those in the dspace-3.0 release in preparation for upgrading from 1.8. I pulled over some new syntax changes, including what I thought were defaults in the new config

[Dspace-tech] Export archive restricted?

2013-04-16 Thread Alan Orth
I've presumably misconfigured? helix84? ;) Thanks! -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne

Re: [Dspace-tech] Export archive restricted?

2013-04-17 Thread Alan Orth
Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my

Re: [Dspace-tech] Export archive restricted?

2013-04-17 Thread Alan Orth
Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure

Re: [Dspace-tech] Export archive restricted?

2013-04-19 Thread Alan Orth
for that particular community/collection? Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer

[Dspace-tech] Aggressive XMLUI cache

2013-04-19 Thread Alan Orth
prohibited via mod_headers in our httpd reverse proxy, so I'm positive it's not a browser issue. Can anyone shed insight on this? Adios, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has

Re: [Dspace-tech] Aggressive XMLUI cache

2013-04-20 Thread Alan Orth
quite a bit, browsing a number of other themes, etc, and still no cache corruption persisting across this particular theme which was so often affected before. Fingers crossed! [1] https://gist.github.com/alanorth/5426188 On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Dspace-tech] Aggressive XMLUI cache

2013-05-07 Thread Alan Orth
/ www.atmire.com http://atmire.com/website/?q=servicesutm_source=emailfooterutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=braml On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, So for now I *seem* to have found a work around: setting

[Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-21 Thread Alan Orth
/89e508170e4878ec4f88f43a01b5ebf86a7b82de/gistfile1.txt -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-21 Thread Alan Orth
between when the email last worked and now? Also attach your mail.* properties from dspace.cfg. We're looking for an inconspicuous problem here. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-21 Thread Alan Orth
Ok, I've just reverted to our all in one dspace.cfg and emails work fine. Sounds like there are some issues with my build.properties (dev.properties and production.properties)... Alan On 05/21/2013 03:32 PM, helix84 wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Orth
not useful to us. Thanks, Alan On 05/21/2013 04:45 PM, Alan Orth wrote: Ok, I've just reverted to our all in one dspace.cfg and emails work fine. Sounds like there are some issues with my build.properties (dev.properties and production.properties)... Alan On 05/21/2013 03:32 PM, helix84 wrote

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Orth
comment out mail.server.username and mail.server.password, it works, but if you leave them empty, it doesn't work (presumably because it sends empty values). On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: If I comment out the mail.* settings in my production.properties

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-25 Thread Alan Orth
, or look into using authenticated SMTP. Alan On 05/23/2013 12:54 PM, Alan Orth wrote: Helix, Correct; if I comment out the mail.server.username and mail.server.password in the generated / final dspace.cfg sending email works. Also, I was mistaken before regarding `dspace test-email

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-25 Thread Alan Orth
/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-26 Thread Alan Orth
? Cheers, Alan On 05/25/2013 01:58 PM, helix84 wrote: On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for doing that for me. I'll make sure to keep an eye on DS-1561. I maked you as the reporter and added the issue to your watchlist, so you will receive any

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-26 Thread Alan Orth
can unearth any corner cases and or side effects. Cheers, Alan On 05/26/2013 04:26 PM, helix84 wrote: On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: I will comment on the Jira bug. I'm not sure how DSpace releases go, but is this type of fix a candidate for 3.1.x

Re: [Dspace-tech] SMTP Authentication failed

2013-05-26 Thread Alan Orth
, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Helix, I hear you about changing past behavior, but something to consider: The move to build.properties and Maven filtering broke the setup we've been using since DSpace 1.5! This may merit

Re: [Dspace-tech] LDAP permssion

2013-06-20 Thread Alan Orth
___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always

Re: [Dspace-tech] Questions on upgrading from 1.5 to 3.1 and maintaining a live and test instance

2013-06-20 Thread Alan Orth
/sfu/windows-dev2dev ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o

[Dspace-tech] Musings on metadata

2013-07-18 Thread Alan Orth
should use one over the other? Cheers, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup

Re: [Dspace-tech] Musings on metadata

2013-07-18 Thread Alan Orth
and may offer better advice. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Helix, Perhaps it was a poor example. As a sysadmin

Re: [Dspace-tech] Musings on metadata

2013-07-18 Thread Alan Orth
Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because

[Dspace-tech] [RFC] Incorrect Java Vendor in DSpace control panel

2013-08-15 Thread Alan Orth
, not the specification vendor here. If I make an issue on Jira and a GitHub commit, would people appreciate that? Cheers, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can

Re: [Dspace-tech] [RFC] Incorrect Java Vendor in DSpace control panel

2013-08-15 Thread Alan Orth
Ok, I've created a Jira Bug[0] and submitted a patch[1]. Cheers, Alan [0] https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1629 [1] https://github.com/alanorth/DSpace/commit/fba6c5b9771f04374daf10e7b20c288e85b6f715 On 08/15/2013 11:22 AM, Alan Orth wrote: Hi, I've just realized that DSpace tries

Re: [Dspace-tech] PDF Thumbnail Resolution

2013-11-26 Thread Alan Orth
://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup

Re: [Dspace-tech] PDF Thumbnail Resolution

2013-11-26 Thread Alan Orth
List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how

[Dspace-tech] Ansible playbook to deploy DSpace

2013-12-18 Thread Alan Orth
DSpace servers for our environment (since I seem to be setting up a lot of testing/production environments lately, both virtual and physical). Check it out, try it, and send me pull requests. :) [0] https://github.com/alanorth/ansible-dspace [1] https://github.com/DSpace/vagrant-dspace -- Alan

[Dspace-tech] Migrate community with AIP?

2014-01-16 Thread Alan Orth
- dc.date.available - dc.identifier.uri I can't figure out a work flow that doesn't produce this effect... Thanks, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can

Re: [Dspace-tech] Migrate community with AIP?

2014-01-16 Thread Alan Orth
and bitstreams, then meta data cleanup of the resulting community to clean the old URIs and accession dates etc. Thanks for bouncing some ideas around! Alan On 01/16/2014 06:39 PM, Tim Donohue wrote: Hi Alan, On 1/16/2014 9:10 AM, Alan Orth wrote: Hi, I've got a development instance where we uploaded

Re: [Dspace-tech] Migrate community with AIP?

2014-01-20 Thread Alan Orth
these fields are in the database, so I'll have to use SQL to clean them up after importing via AIP? I'm not sure where to look in the DB... Thanks, Alan On 01/17/2014 09:12 AM, Alan Orth wrote: Thanks, both Tim and Helix. Yes, I initially looked into the -r mode, but then realized that, as Tim

Re: [Dspace-tech] Migrate community with AIP?

2014-01-21 Thread Alan Orth
#BatchMetadataEditing-ExportFunction On Jan 20, 2014 8:25 PM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've just decided I will export the metadata (CSV) and clean it up manually, then re-import before I export via AIP. This works great

[Dspace-tech] Heisenbug with item mapping in AIP import

2014-01-22 Thread Alan Orth
only some of the collections they are mapped to, but if you navigate to another collection you can see it there * Some items are mapped to incorrect collections entirely Has anyone else noticed this? Both DSpaces are 3.1 with PostgreSQL 9.1, on Linux of course. Thanks, -- Alan Orth alan.o

Re: [Dspace-tech] Heisenbug with item mapping in AIP import

2014-01-22 Thread Alan Orth
*changes*, attempting to maintain all mappings becomes extremely complex. - Tim On 1/22/2014 10:04 AM, Alan Orth wrote: Hi, I'm trying to migrate a community hierarchy between two different DSpace instances using AIP Import (in -s mode), and I'm seeing unpredictable behavior with mapped

Re: [Dspace-tech] Pxpdf-mediafilter configuration

2014-02-07 Thread Alan Orth
@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my

Re: [Dspace-tech] Pxpdf-mediafilter configuration

2014-02-07 Thread Alan Orth
Also, you will need to enable Xpdf in dspace.cfg... just in case the docs don't make sense, here's my commit which does this for our DSpace: https://github.com/ilri/DSpace/commit/30c1460bb17d5e357a4002503da8cc066c823449 Alan On 02/07/2014 11:12 AM, Alan Orth wrote: Morning from Nairobi, Robert

[Dspace-tech] JAVA_OPTS for cron jobs?

2014-05-20 Thread Alan Orth
of course is to move to a machine with more memory (currently 4GB). Thanks, DSpace version is 3.1, OS is Ubuntu 12.04. -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true

[Dspace-tech] Anomaly in moving collection to new community

2014-05-28 Thread Alan Orth
? :) -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ GPG public key ID

Re: [Dspace-tech] Anomaly in moving collection to new community

2014-05-28 Thread Alan Orth
Stellenbosch 7599 South Africa Tel: +27 21 808 4100 | Cell: +27 84 646 4758 http://scholar.sun.ac.za http://bit.ly/goodir http://library.sun.ac.za http://za.linkedin.com/in/hiltongibson On 28 May 2014 08:36, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [Dspace-tech] JAVA_OPTS for cron jobs?

2014-05-30 Thread Alan Orth
their JAVA_OPTS to in crontab. The long term plan of course is to move to a machine with more memory (currently 4GB). Thanks, DSpace version is 3.1, OS is Ubuntu 12.04. -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer

Re: [Dspace-tech] JAVA_OPTS for cron jobs?

2014-05-30 Thread Alan Orth
-5005 x809 On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Peter, Ahh, that's very interesting. I just looked up the -server flag and it seems on recent Sun/Oracle JVMs -server is implied on 64-bit Linux platforms[0

[Dspace-tech] Batch update of meta data using SQL?

2014-06-13 Thread Alan Orth
records across the whole repository which need to be updated. I assume SQL is the only way? I'm not very familiar with DSpace's PostgreSQL schema, so I really need advice on how to approach this in a safe way. We're on DSpace 3.1. Thanks, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org

Re: [Dspace-tech] Batch update of meta data using SQL?

2014-06-15 Thread Alan Orth
Initiatives jcr...@library.tamu.edu mailto:jcr...@library.tamu.edu On Jun 13, 2014, at 1039, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We've updated some of our controlled vocabularies for new conventions in our organization, like TECHNICAL REPORT - REPORT

[Dspace-tech] Anyone played with G1 garbage collector in JDK7?

2014-07-01 Thread Alan Orth
://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Performance+Tuning+DSpace [1] http://blog.sematext.com/2013/06/24/g1-cms-java-garbage-collector/ [2] http://www.aioug.org/sangam12/Presentations/20155.pdf -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer

Re: [Dspace-tech] IPv4/6 double stack setup and session hijacking prevention

2014-07-02 Thread Alan Orth
Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my

[Dspace-tech] Recommended TLS cipher suite for sites using HTTPS

2014-09-13 Thread Alan Orth
! -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ GPG public key ID

Re: [Dspace-tech] Recommended TLS cipher suite for sites using HTTPS

2014-09-14 Thread Alan Orth
you their recommendations. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke In heaven all the interesting people are missing

Re: [Dspace-tech] Recommended TLS cipher suite for sites using HTTPS

2014-09-15 Thread Alan Orth
Cheers stuart *From:*Alan Orth [mailto:alan.o...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, 14 September 2014 7:39 p.m. *To:* Ivan Masár *Cc:* dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [Dspace-tech] Recommended TLS cipher suite for sites using HTTPS Hi, Hilton. Thanks for your

[Dspace-tech] DS-2220: Always load Google Analytics over SSL

2014-10-27 Thread Alan Orth
I was just poking around and noticed we conditionally load Google Analytics over SSL. We should *always* load ga.js over SSL. Bug here: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2220 Patch and pull request is linked in bug report. Cheers, -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://alaninkenya.org

Re: [Dspace-tech] Using DSpace with https

2014-10-27 Thread Alan Orth
. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- Alan Orth alan.o

Re: [Dspace-tech] DS-2220: Always load Google Analytics over SSL

2014-10-28 Thread Alan Orth
that start with // rather than https:// or http:// ? Or is there an important secondary issue I'm missing? cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 *From:* Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com *Sent:* Monday

Re: [Dspace-tech] DS-2220: Always load Google Analytics over SSL

2014-10-30 Thread Alan Orth
systems to reference checking systems to fancy website thumbnail services just work better and more reliably over http than https. cheers stuart -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://alaninkenya.org https://mjanja.ch In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -Friedrich Nietzsche GPG

[Dspace-tech] HiDPI favicon?

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Orth
I never noticed until I had a HiDPI screen (MacBook Pro with Retina screen), but the default favicon for XMLUI and probably JSPUI is pretty low definition. Right now we're using 16x16 pixels, but we should be using something more like 48x48 or even 128x128, see some examples:

Re: [Dspace-tech] HiDPI favicon?

2014-11-05 Thread Alan Orth
Ah, that's great, helix. They're high-res enough that we could easily get a 64x64 pixel favicon out of them. Tim? Alan On Wed Nov 05 2014 at 4:37:42 PM helix84 heli...@centrum.sk wrote: Hi Alan, we should probably use this one instead:

Re: [Dspace-tech] ant update command!

2014-11-23 Thread Alan Orth
Hi, Nada. Those two commands are the same; it uses config/dspace.cfg by default, which is what most people should use. This is what I do, for example: mvn -U clean package cd dspace/target/dspace-4.2-build ant update Alan On Sun Nov 23 2014 at 4:22:58 PM Nada Abo Eita naboeit...@gmail.com

[Dspace-tech] Issues with OpenSearch sortFields and sorting order

2014-12-02 Thread Alan Orth
Hi, I'm playing with OpenSearch in DSpace 4.2 and I'm having a couple of issues. I see OpenSearch uses the Discovery configuration, so I'm investigating `discovery.xml'. Here are two related issues I'm having: 1- I've added a custom sortField for dc.date.accessioned and added it to my bean's

Re: [Dspace-tech] Issues with OpenSearch sortFields and sorting order

2014-12-03 Thread Alan Orth
Christian, Wow, thank you! I've just managed to create a proper RSS feed for a certain metadata field and sort it by dc.date.accessioned in descending order. Now, the DSpace documentation is 100% wrong in several places with regards to the setup of OpenSearch... for example, I had to define

[Dspace-tech] Character encoding issues in Discovery search results

2014-12-09 Thread Alan Orth
and manually re-run `filter-media' as well as `index-discovery -b' What could I be missing? Thanks! -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://alaninkenya.org https://mjanja.ch In heaven all the interesting people are missing. -Friedrich Nietzsche GPG public key ID: 0x8cb0d0acb5cd81ec209c6cdfbd1a0e09c2f836c0

Re: [Dspace-tech] Character encoding issues in Discovery search results

2014-12-09 Thread Alan Orth
Antoine, In this case the dspace script respects the environment's JAVA_OPTS if it is set; the one in the script is only used if JAVA_OPTS is empty. Alan On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Antoine Snyers anto...@atmire.com wrote: Hi Alan Orth -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 should be added to the bin

Re: [Dspace-tech] Enabling SSL

2014-12-11 Thread Alan Orth
Also, I realized early on there are many reasons to terminate your SSL with something other than Tomcat. We used Apache http for a while, and now I've switched to nginx. For reference, here's our nginx vhost config: https://gist.github.com/alanorth/ddde5e9d6c55b3637513 You'll want the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Character encoding issues in Discovery search results

2015-02-12 Thread Alan Orth
...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alan: Did you solved this issue? And how? If you did. Bender 2014-12-09 13:09 GMT-03:00 Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com: Antoine, In this case the dspace script respects the environment's JAVA_OPTS if it is set; the one in the script is only used if JAVA_OPTS

Re: [Dspace-tech] Character encoding issues in Discovery search results

2015-02-13 Thread Alan Orth
, don't forget to make a back up first. Cheers, Aleksandar Stojanov On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, bender. No, we didn't figure this out. In fact, it's still an open issue on our institution's GitHub issue tracker! https://github.com/ilri/DSpace

[Dspace-tech] Moving collections in DSpace = 4.0?

2015-03-18 Thread Alan Orth
Hi, I'm wondering how to move a collection to a new community in DSpace versions = 4.0. In the past, with DSpace 3.x, I would simply[0] find the resource_id for the collection, its parent, and the new parent, then update the relationships in SQL: UPDATE community2collection SET

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