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[EP-tech] Re: Running EPrints in VirtualBox Localhost

Hi (again) Andrew,
Here's what more or less happens when you set-up EPrints on Linux (for the hostname configuration):
1- EPrints writes to archives/<id>/cfg/cfg.d/10_core.pl the hostname(s) you provided (so "eprints.localhost" in your case), something like: 

# This file was created by bin/epadmin
# You can regenerate this file by doing ./bin/epadmin config_core <id>
$c->{host} = 'eprints.localhost';
$c->{port} = 80;
$c->{aliases} = [];
$c->{securehost} = '';
$c->{secureport} = 443;
$c->{http_root} = undef;
2- From that file, the EPrints set-up runs the bin/generate_apacheconf script which generates ... well... the relevant apache configuration from 10_core.pl
The main file is in cfg/apache.conf - and repository-specific conf is under cfg/apache/
3- Then EPrints tells you to add the following line to your main apache conf (e.g. in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf - could be in another directory depending on your version/distr. of linux) 

4- Then you need to restart Apache (run "service apache2 restart" as root)
Voila, things are more or less set-up on the EPrints side: EPrints will now answer to requests going to "eprints.localhost".
However on your computer, you need to do the DNS resolution since "eprints.localhost" is not a valid DNS entry. On Linux, you usually edit /etc/hosts and add the hostname/ip address directly. I know there's a similar trick on Windows, you might need to look it up. 

I hope this will get you started,

Seb.
PS: if that works, EPrints contain some test data you can import, have a look in testdata/bin/
PS2: all the paths I used above are relative to where you installed EPrints. By default it's in /opt/eprints3/ but this could be anywhere on disk (/usr/share/eprints3, /var/lib/eprints3 ...). "<id>" refers to the ID of the repository you created. 



On 31/01/14 13:47, Andrew Beeken wrote:

Hello all!


I've recently started at the University of Lincoln as Research Information Services Developer and am currently trying to get to grips with EPrints. To test it out, I've set up a VirtualBox running Ubuntu on my machine and have run through the EPrints setup however I'm not sure how to actually access the site. I'm more accustomed to a Windows development environment and am suddenly feeling woefully out of my depth in Linux! The installation seemed to go okay and I thought I'd set the host to eprints.localhost, however when I try to access that FireFox on Ubuntu is determined to send me to www.eprints.localhost which is, of course, wrong. I'm sure I'm missing a step but if anyone could offer me pointers on getting test data set up for EPrints in a VirtualBox environment, I'd be incredibly grateful!


Best Regards,

Andrew Beeken


Research Information Services Developer

University of Lincoln

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