Hi Brian,
> I inherited a Dspace setup, I don't have much background with Dspace (or
> apache tomcat for that matter) and was wondering if anyone could help me with
> a few issues that I am running into. What I would like to do is just copy the
> existing dspace directories over to the new server.
Welcome to the DSpace community!
> I am trying to migrate our existing Dspace server from windows to a linux
> server. It looks like there are 2 dspace directories one is in the tomcat
> webapps directory named "dspace". The other is named dspace-1.4.1, it
> contains a config directory with the dspace.cfg.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> 1) Are those the only 2 directories I need to worry about?
No. There is one more.
When you read DSpace documentation, you'll often see references to [dspace]
and [dspace-src]:
- [dspace] is where DSpace gets installed, holds the configuration, logs,
item files etc.
- [dspace-src] is where DSpace is downloaded to, and then built. It will
also contain your local customisations if you have any. When it builds, it
creates [dspace], and a dspace.war file which when placed in
[tomcat]/webapps will expand to create the [tomcat]/webapps/dspace directory
containing the web application.
Your folder called dspace-1.4.1 may be either [dspace] or [dspace-src]
[dspace] contains directories such as assetstore, log, and upload.
[dspace-src] contains directories such as src, jsp, docs.
So you have two of the three required.
In theory you can recreate the tomcat/webapps/dspace folder easily from
[dspace-src].
> 2) I assume I put the directory that is in the webapp folder, in the webapp
> folder on the new server. But where do I place the other directory how do I
> make tomcat "aware" of it.
If you just place the 'dspace' directory in the tomcat webapps folder, like
where you got it from, then restart tomcat, it should recognise that it is
there.
You've not mentioned the database at all. Are you happy with how that is
configured, and copying that too (if it is a local database server)?
Thanks,
Stuart
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