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koha-installation-ubuntu-packages

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on September 26, 2013 at 1:16:29 pm
 

Install Ubuntu /Xubuntu 12.04 LTS

 

Open a terminal and apply following commands,

 

sudo su

apt-get install leafpad

 

Add Koha package repository

 

wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt-key add -
echo deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha squeeze main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install koha-common

Initial Configuration
Create a new file

leafpad /etc/koha/koha-sites.conf

Add the following lines and save.


DOMAIN=".yourdomain.org"  # Change this to be your domain. Any instance will be a subdomain of this string.
INTRAPORT="8000"  # TCP listening port for the administration interface
INTRAPREFIX=""  # For administration interface URL: Prefix to be added to the instance name.
INTRASUFFIX="-intra"  # For administration interface URL: Suffix to be added to the instance name.
DEFAULTSQL=""  # a value is generally not needed.
OPACPORT="8001"  # TCP listening port for the users' interface (if you skip this, the apache default of 80 will be used)
OPACPREFIX=""  # For users' interface URL: Prefix to be added to the instance name.
OPACSUFFIX=""  # For users' interface URL: Suffix to be added to the instance name.
ZEBRA_MARC_FORMAT="marc21"  # Specifies format of MARC records to be indexed by Zebra. Possible values are 'marc21', 'normarc' and 'unimarc'
ZEBRA_LANGUAGE="en"  # Primary language for Zebra indexing. Possible values are 'en', 'fr' and 'nb'

Adding ports
Open following file and add ports

sudo leafpad /etc/apache2/ports.conf

Add two ports for Koha

Listen 8000
Listen 8001
 

Apply following commands,  

 

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Configuration of  UTF-8 in MySQL and Apache 
Enable UTF-8 at MySQL 
Open a Terminal and type following command, 

sudo su 
leafpad /etc/mysql/my.cnf   

[Under the Basic settings section, add the following,] 
 
# UTF-8 Defaults for Koha 
init-connect='SET NAMES utf8' 
character-set-server=utf8 
collation-server=utf8_general_ci 

leafpad /etc/apache2/conf.d/charset 
[Add the following two lines in] 
 
AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8 
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 

Save the file and close the editor.

Sax parser setup

leafpad /etc/perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini

Cut and paste the following command to the bottom of the file and save it.

[XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser]
http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces=1 

 

 

Instance creation

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

[Put a password for MySQL Root USER]

Apply following commands,
 
sudo apt-get clean

sudo koha-create --create-db library

 

Ubuntu MySQL security Tweak

 

sudo su

mysql -u root -p

 

[Enter the MySQL Root password when it ask]

Execute the following commands,

 

USE mysql;

SELECT host,user FROM user;

DELETE FROM user WHERE user=''; SELECT host,user FROM user;

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
QUIT

Configuring Apache

Execute the following commands in a terminal. 

 

sudo a2dissite 000-default
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo a2enmod deflate
sudo a2ensite library
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Start web installation of Koha

The username to log in with will be koha_library and the password will be near the end of /etc/koha/sites/library/koha-conf.xml

Apply the following command to see the koha login password,

 

sudo xmlstarlet sel -t -v 'yazgfs/config/pass' /etc/koha/sites/library/koha-conf.xml

 

Open following link,

 

http://127.0.1.1:8000  

 

Zebra rebuild command

 

sudo su

koha-rebuild-zebra -v -f library

Reference

http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages#Enable_Modules_and_Site

 

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