On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 02:21:27PM -0400, Wendy J Bossons wrote: > Essentially then, and to hopefully accurately paraphrase Mark W.'s comments . > . . > > If the server where dsp...@mit currently resides continues to run, > and if we continue using the same database location, then the > handle-server should run. However, if we move the database to a new > location, then the handle-server needs to be configured to use the > new location... How is that done, reconfiguring the handle-server to > use a new location? -- is it the simple setup of the new handle > server and notification to CNRI, or is there something on the dspace > application side besides the handle.dir?
DSpace includes a bit of code which plugs into the Handle server and
fetches Handle information from DSpace's database using the same code
that DSpace uses. So when you change db.url in
[DSpace]/config/dspace.cfg, that reconfigures both DSpace and the
Handle server, because they use the same code to look up Handles.
Change the DSpace database configuration and the Handle server will be
reconfigured at the same time. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear.
> Also, why would I have to update the old installation -- we will be
> retiring that? Again, pardon my newbiness . . . I haven't set up the
> handle-server prior to this.
Because the piece of DSpace that's plugged into the Handle server uses
the DSpace configuration file to find the database. DSpace is
packaged in such a way that, normally, you wouldn't have to know
that. What you're doing with it is quite reasonable but a bit out of
the ordinary.
It's not necessary to keep the old DSpace installation running beyond
the point you have no further use for it. But as long as the old
Handle server is needed, it must have the old DSpace installation's
files available (because it uses DSpace code to look up Handles) and
that DSpace installation must be configured to "know" where the live
DSpace database currently is (because that's where the Handles are
stored).
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