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[EP-tech] Re: Eprints-tech Digest, Vol 68, Issue 3

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• From: "Alexander Ochoa Aguero" <alex.ochoa@elacm.sld.cu>
• Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 18:55:09 +0000

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: EPrints Bazaar down? (Lizz Jennings)


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Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 10:40:12 +0100
From: Lizz Jennings <e.jennings@bath.ac.uk>
Subject: [EP-tech] Re: EPrints Bazaar down?
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
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Thanks - having gone round and round in circles with this, I've finally
found that adding

SetEnv http_proxy [proxy address]

to the archive apache .conf file has done the trick.

Thanks for all your help!

Lizz

On 30/04/2014 14:10, John Salter wrote:
> This might be the best answer:
> http://serverfault.com/questions/248917/configure-apache-to-use-external-proxy-for-internet-connection
>
> There may be other ways to achieve this - on an old Solaris server I used to have an 'envvars' file in my apache/bin directory (e.g. not in the EPrints directory).
> This contained the lines:
> http_proxy= http://wherever.your.proxy.is:3128
> export http_proxy
>
> Looking at the code for EPM (perl_lib/EPrints/EPM/Source.pm), it checks for 'HTTP_proxy' - I'm not sure if the case matters in this instance...
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Lizz Jennings
> Sent: 30 April 2014 13:31
> To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
> Subject: [EP-tech] Re: EPrints Bazaar down?
>
> Have now established with the networks team that we needed to change the
> environment variables to use the web proxy, but while this has enabled
> access when I use wget, EPrints is still not picking it up. Is there
> another setting I need to change in EPrints to get this to work?
>
> Lizz
>
> On 25/04/2014 11:53, Lizz Jennings wrote:
>> Yes, it seems that our networks team made some changes which are causing
>> the problem.
>>
>> They now want to know what ports and protocols the bazaar uses - is
>> there an obvious way of determining this?  I'm sorry if this is a
>> totally silly question...
>>
>> Lizz
>>
>> On 16/04/2014 15:44, John Salter wrote:
>>> Has anything changed on your server recently?
>>> I used to get a similar thing on a dev server that had to go via a proxy.
>>>
>>> Try doing a wget from the server - to see if it can see the bazaar.
>>> If you can, but it's not accessible vie EPrints (therefore Apache), you may need to configure something in the Apache.
>>>
>>> It shouldn't have just stopped for no reason - either something has been updated/enforced on your server; something that was in the network pathway is no longer there (or not open to your server) - e.g. a proxy, or something else...
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> John
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Lizz Jennings
>>> Sent: 16 April 2014 15:03
>>> To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>> Subject: [EP-tech] Re: EPrints Bazaar down?
>>>
>>> Access via Eprints.  The website seems to work just fine.
>>>
>>> On the Available page, there's usually a list of available plugins, but
>>> I'm getting nothing.  Searching is resulting in an error:
>>>
>>> An error occurred while talking to the EPM source EPrints Bazaar
>>> ( http://bazaar.eprints.org/):
>>> http://bazaar.eprints.org/cgi/search?q=Data+Cite&output=EPMI 500 Can't
>>> connect to bazaar.eprints.org:80 (connect: Connection timed out)
>>>
>>> Lizz
>>>
>>> On 16/04/2014 14:55, John Salter wrote:
>>>> Seems to be OK here.
>>>> Are you talking about direct access to it ( http://bazaar.eprints.org/ ), or access via your local install of EPrints (Admin -> System Tools -> EPrints Bazaar)?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Lizz Jennings
>>>> Sent: 16 April 2014 14:39
>>>> To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>>> Subject: [EP-tech] EPrints Bazaar down?
>>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> Is it just me or is the EPrints Bazaar down for everyone?
>>>>
>>>> Lizz
>>>>

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Lizz Jennings BA MSc ACLIP MCLIP (Revalidated 2013)
Technical Data Officer
The Library 4.10, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY UK
Ext. 3570 (External 01225 383570)
E.Jennings@bath.ac.uk



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