Hello,

I'm fresh DSpace user. I installed the software and wanted to change its 
configuration. I followed this post and ammended the file dspace.cfg 
in dspace/config directory, restarted tomcat, and no effect. Am I missing 
something? 



Thanks,

Peter

On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 9:33:17 PM UTC+1, Thornton, Susan M. 
(LARC-B702)[LITES] wrote:
>
> Here is the process I follow and never have any problems. 
>
> During the initial install/implementation of your DSpace instance, you 
> will make your changes to dspace.cfg in {dspace-source}/dspace/config. 
>  Then once you do a "fresh-install", your /dspace directory is populated 
> with all other sub-directories like /bin  /config   /etc   /lib  /webapps, 
> etc. 
>
> From this point on, the place to make your changes to dspace.cfg is in 
> your dspace installation directory, NOT the source directory.  If you do 
> not make your changes in /dspace/config/dspace.cfg, your changes will not 
> be picked up.  Also remember that you have to stop and start your web 
> server before these changes will be picked up too. 
>
> Hope this helps, 
> Sue 
>
>
>
> Sue Walker-Thornton 
> Software Developer/Database Administrator 
> NASA Langley Research Center|LITES Contract 
> (757) 224-4074 
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: amutsikiwa [mailto:[email protected] <javascript:>] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 7:25 AM 
> To: 'Glenn Little'; [email protected] <javascript:> 
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] modifying config dspace.cfg 
>
> After making changes  to [dspace-source]/dspace/config/dspace.cfg, change 
> directory to [dspace-source]/dspace/ and  then run 
>      mvn -e -o packages 
> Then  change directory to   
>  [dspace-source]/dspace/target/dspace-1.7.0-build.dir 
>  And run 
>   ant -Doverwrite=true update clean_backups 
>
>
> The changes should be effected. 
>
>
> Regards, 
>
> Admire Mutsikiwa 
> University of Zimbabwe 
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Glenn Little [mailto:[email protected] <javascript:>] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 2:00 AM 
> To: [email protected] <javascript:> 
> Subject: [Dspace-tech] modifying config dspace.cfg 
>
> I've got an install of dspace and am now trying to modify the 
> dspace.cfg file.  But I'm confused as to which file to edit.  I 
> thought I was supposed to do this: 
>
> + edit [dspace-source]/dspace/config/dspace.cfg 
>
> + change dir to [dspace-source]/dspace/target/dspace-1.7.0-build.dir 
>
> + ant update_configs 
>
> The problem is that this does not do anything with my new changes. 
> Instead it puts an old copy of my dspace.cfg file over into 
> [dspace]/config/dspace.cfg.new.  As far as I can tell, that *old* copy 
> comes from: 
>
>   [dspace-source]/dspace/target/dspace-1.7.0-build.dir/config/dspace.cfg 
>
> So what is the real intent of the copy in dspace-<version>-build.dir 
> compared to the one higher up in the source tree?  How is one *really* 
> supposed to update the configuration, post-install? 
>
> Thanks... 
>
> -glenn 
>
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