Installation of Koha on Ubuntu
1.
Adding Koha Channel to Debian
It will install the current (latest) version of
Koha. Apply following commands one by one
Sudo su
Press Enter and type the password (password
will not be visible) and again press Enter.
echo deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha stable main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list
wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt- key add -
echo deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha stable main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list
wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt- key add -
2. Update and upgrade the software
apt-get upgrade
When prompted “Do you want to continue? [Y/n]”, Enter Y to continue.
apt-get clean
3. Installation of Koha package
The following command will
install the latest release of Koha
sudo apt-get install
koha-common
When prompted “Do you want to continue? [Y/n]”, Enter Y to continue
4.
Editing Network Information
Define Koha Staff Interface and OPAC Interface
ports (and domain names if necessary) at /etc/koha/koha-sites.conf
sudo nano
/etc/koha/koha-sites.conf
The
command nanowill open the file in terminal for editing. For Staff Interface we
may use the port 8080 as INTRAPORT and for OPAC Interface default port 80 can
be used as OPACPORT.
So, change like INTRAPORT="8090"
5. Installing MySQL
Server
Install the
Database (on same server); we are going to install mariaDB Server by following
command:
sudo apt-get install
mariadb-server
When prompted “Do you want to continue? [Y/n]”, Enter Y to continue.
sudo apt-get install
mariadb-client-10.1
After completing run the MariaDB server installation again. It will
install now.
sudo apt-get install
mariadb-server
When prompted “Do you want to continue? [Y/n]”, Enter Y to
continue.
6. Creating Apache
Configuration files
sudo
a2enmod rewrite
sudo
a2enmod cgi
sudo
service apache2 restart
7. Creating Koha
Instance
sudo
koha-create --create-db library
8.
Assign password for MariaDB root user
sudo
mysql_secure_installation
The current virsion of maridb comes with no default password. So when
prompt for password, just press Enter and it will ask you to set new password.
Type the password, retype the password for confirmation. Rest of the answers
would be Yes and type Y and press Enter each time.
9. Listeningassigned ports
We have assigned
8080 port for the Koha staff client and 80 for OPAC.
Open the following file and
Listen those ports
sudo
nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf
Include the following line below Listen 80and save the file
Include the following line below Listen
80and
save the file
Listen
8090
Restart Apache Service.
sudo
service apache2 restart
10. Enable modules and
sites
Apply following commands one by one
sudo
a2dissite 000-default
sudo
a2enmod deflate
sudo
a2ensite library
sudo
service apache2 restart
11. Running web
installer
Go to your mozilla
Firefox browser and copy paste the below link
Note:To retrieve Koha SuperUser’s username and password
from koha-conf.xml file, run the following command at terminal.
sudo more
/etc/koha/sites/library/koha-conf.xml
Get the username
and password from below part of the file:
<db_scheme>mysql</db_scheme>
<database>koha_library</database>
<hostname>localhost</hostname>
<port>3306</port>
<user>koha_library</user>
<pass>JkdfgrrowhQTK</pass>
<biblioserver>biblios</biblioserver>
12.
The installer itself prompts you
to choose for setting up few basic configurations which lets you create a
Library, Patron category, Item type, circulation Rule and a Admin user.
13.
For accessing OPAC, copy paste
the below URL
http://127.0.1.1:80 (Online
catalogue)
Note: Do not import any default values while running the
web installer as the configuration must be done based on your requirement.
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