Jason & Dan, Thanks for your responses. I was able to get the alternate themes working on my site and updated the wiki.
I also did some reading about the difference between forward and reverse proxies and came to the conclusion that as long as ProxyRequests is left Off, maybe it really is secure enough to Allow from all. Whew! And yes, a web form is exactly what I was thinking of. Thanks for running through what the various parameters in the URL mean. Karen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karen Collier Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] OPAC configurations/skins/themes, etc After reviewing the discussion on this list back in July, on customizing the OPAC, I went through and did some experimentation with my test server findit.kentcountylibrary.org and created the previously missing page on the wiki http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-admin:customizations:opac with some basic info on customizing the OPAC. I'm tempted to try some more drastic changes to layout and such, but I think that would require a more in-depth understanding of the OPAC than I currently have. Another option I've considered, since most of the changes I want are to the search page and not the results page, is embedding a search box for the OPAC within the html of our existing Web page set up on another server. Any thoughts on how this might be done and if it's practical with the OPAC as it is? In that discussion from July there was made mention of some major reworking of the OPAC planned for the future. Has that happened? Is it still in the works? Would making some interface and feature suggestions/requests be appropriate at this point? Meanwhile, would someone more knowledgeable on customizing the OPAC mind double checking what I posted on the wiki for errors or omissions? I'm particularly curious about proxy settings to allow the cover images to show up. I was able to get it working with "Allow from all" but from what I've heard that's not too secure so I don't have that set up right now. I've seen suggestions of requiring session cookies to access added content, or using a proxy-pass directive or a mod_perl application to serve the content. Could anybody elaborate on those or other more secure options, for a newbie to server administration? Thanks, Karen -- Karen Collier Public Services Librarian Kent County Public Library 408 High Street Chestertown, MD 21620 410-778-3636
