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

Further to all that, (and I don't know how good practice this is!) I add a line in my windows host for each virtualbox I've got running. That way I can use a real looking/future url instead of IP. 


David McElroy
Research Data Management Officer

University of East London
Docklands Library
020 8223 6467



-----Original Message-----
From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jan Ploski
Sent: 31 January 2014 14:16
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Re: Running EPrints in VirtualBox Localhost

Here's some tips:

1. Use eprints.localdomain instead of eprints.localhost - makes more sense.
2. Add "127.0.0.1 eprints.localdomain" to your /etc/hosts file, so that the command "ping eprints.localdomain" works as expected. If you want to access the server from outside VirtualBox (i.e. from the Windows host), you should probably use the IP address which is configured on your network interface and is accessible from the host instead of 127.0.0.1 (/sbin/ifconfig eth0).
3. Add $c->{host} = 'eprints.localdomain' and $c->{virtualhost} = '127.0.0.1' (or whatever) to your EPrints configuration, to tell EPrints what it should write to its generated Apache configuration file.
4. Run "bin/generate_apacheconf your-repository-name --replace" to overwrite the generated Apache config file with new settings. I assume you have a symlink from directory /etc/apache2/sites-enabled to this file to make Apache aware of its existence.
5. Restart Apache (apache2ctl restart).
6. If you want the name "eprints.localdomain" to resolve to an IP address on the host, you'll need to edit the Windows hosts file to match the Linux version.

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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> University Library
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