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knut on "Configuration file is missing for hostname ..."

knut — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:41:47 +0000

Followed your advice, but no improvement. define("__CA_WEB_ROOT_DIR__", "/usr/lib/sphereconf/apache"); define("__CA_URL_ROOT__", "collectiveaccess");

knut on "Configuration file is missing for hostname ..."

knut — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:38:54 +0000

Followed your advice, but no improvement. define("__CA_WEB_ROOT_DIR__", "/usr/lib/sphereconf/apache"); define("__CA_URL_ROOT__", "collectiveaccess");

seth on "Configuration file is missing for hostname ..."

seth — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:31:40 +0000

Ok, so change __CA_WEB_ROOT_DIR__ to the proper root and change __CA_URL_ROOT__ to be /collectiveaccess and (hopefully) it'll work.

knut on "Configuration file is missing for hostname ..."

knut — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:30:22 +0000

Found this. Server Root /usr/lib/sphereconf/apache PATH /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin

seth on "Configuration file is missing for hostname ..."

seth — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:06:23 +0000

Most likely the value for __CA_WEB_ROOT_DIR__ is not the actual value of your web root. Check what the root server path is in phpinfo(). Or cd into the directory and run pwd (assuming you're on a Unix-ish machine).

knut on "Configuration file is missing for hostname ..."

knut — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:19:16 +0000

I tried to install CollectionAccess 0.6 on the same server as we have our website (/public_html/folder/collectiveaccess)and get the error message: Configuration file is missing for hostname "www.mywebsite.de" I made following settings: setup.php define("__CA_WEB_ROOT_DIR__", "/public_html/folder"); define("__CA_URL_ROOT__", ""); define("__CA_SITE_HOSTNAME__", "www.mywebsite.de"); define("__CA_APP_NAME__", "my_first_collectiveaccess_system"); define("__CA_APP_DISPLAY_NAME__", "My First CollectiveAccess System"); define("__CA_DB_HOST__", 'localhost'); define("__CA_DB_USER__", 'dbuser'); define("__CA_DB_PASSWORD__", 'password'); define("__CA_DB_DATABASE__", 'db000000'); define("__CA_DB_TYPE__", 'mysql'); global.php site_protocol = http site_hostname =__CA_SITE_HOSTNAME__ site_host = <site_protocol>://<site_hostname> What is wrong in my settings? Best regards, Knut

beda on "Upgrade 0.60 to the newest version"

beda — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:04:38 +0000

Thank you. I followed the steps in the page you mentioned and it worked fine. Beda

dlowman on "Koha Integration"

dlowman — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:30:57 +0000

Thank you, that does clear things up a bit. When I googled CA and Koha I had come across an IT pdf done in February 2010 addressing this issue and followed up with a phone call. Do you have any public libraries that host genealogical/archive data on CA? If so, do they use CA as a standalone and then just link it in through their website or how is it handled? I really like the organization of Collective Access and I think from the user standpoint it is very accessible. As a public library though, we would have to catalog in two places, a definite drawback. However,I don't see any other programs out there that do integrate.

stefan on "Downloading with SVN from a Mac"

stefan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:18:39 +0000

MacPorts is a great application but I wouldn't recommend installing Subversion this way. If you have MacPorts up and running odds are that you have XCode and other related development tools installed (otherwise MacPorts wouldn't be able to invoke C or C++ compilers). XCode, however, ships with Subversion - so once you have Xcode installed you should have a "svn" binary in /usr/bin/svn. Also, on testing/developments systems you should always run "svn checkout" (not "export"). This way it's easier to update the code base using "svn update". On production systems, however, you don't want the svn metadata in a web-accessable directory (this is in fact a security risk that has been abused before) - which is why you should use "export". Stefan

seth on "Koha Integration"

seth — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:54:53 +0000

I'm surprised to hear that the Alpine Club was expecting Koha integration. It has never been on our roadmap and I don't recall discussing it with them (or anyone else for that matter). Further, I'm not really sure it's something that is really critical for the primary user base of CollectiveAccess (museums, special collections and archives). Where was the Alpine Club touted as being a user of CA? We were aware they were considering it, but they were never listed on the CA site (am I missing something?). If USC is no longer using it we'll take them off the list – we rely on users to tell us about the status of their systems, and we heard from USC back at the end of March with tech questions. So to be clear: no work has been done on Koha integration and we have no plans at present to start. Perhaps a user will choose to develop this at some point, but for now it is not in the cards, at least from us. Sorry, seth

dlowman on "Koha Integration"

dlowman — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:21:49 +0000

I have been following CA for a bit now and called a few places that were touted to have been using CA. One was USC in the Warner Collection but they said they only used it as a class project and didn't maintain. Another was a Colorado based climbing club. The librarian there said that she had discussed with Seth Koha integration but when a year later that didn't happen, they chose to go with someone else. We are a public library and have 22G of unsorted, uncategorized images that we are beginning to digitize, tag and sort. However, I don't want to do things multiple times, or even twice if I don't have to. Ultimately, I want to be able to make an entry either on Koha or CA and link it to the other. Have you worked more on Koha compatibility and what is the status?

jtalbert22 on "Downloading with SVN from a Mac"

jtalbert22 — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:38:35 +0000

Spent a couple days finding out what Subversion was and how to download the CA installs with it. Here are the steps to do it using the Mac Terminal application from OSX10.6: # 'Terminal' Output of the steps used to download CollectiveAccess. # Install MacPorts (<a href="http://www.macports.org/)" rel="nofollow">http://www.macports.org/)</a>, a web service for installing various Unix programs (ports) for the Mac. # Install Subversion (SVN) using MacPorts. ~ Admin$ sudo port install subversion Password: ---> Computing dependencies for subversion ---> Dependencies to be installed: apr apr-util db46 sqlite3 cyrus-sasl2 neon serf ---> Fetching apr ---> Attempting to fetch apr-1.4.2.tar.bz2 from <a href="http://apache.mirror.rafal.ca/apr" rel="nofollow">http://apache.mirror.rafal.ca/apr</a> ---> Verifying checksum(s) for apr ---> Extracting apr ---> Applying patches to apr ---> Configuring apr ---> Building apr ---> Staging apr into destroot ---> Installing apr @1.4.2_1 ---> Activating apr @1.4.2_1 ---> Cleaning apr ---> Fetching db46 ---> Attempting to fetch patch.4.6.21.1 from <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.6.21/" rel="nofollow">http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.6.21/</a> ---> Attempting to fetch patch.4.6.21.2 from <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.6.21/" rel="nofollow">http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.6.21/</a> ---> Attempting to fetch patch.4.6.21.3 from <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.6.21/" rel="nofollow">http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.6.21/</a> ---> Attempting to fetch patch.4.6.21.4 from <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.6.21/" rel="nofollow">http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.6.21/</a> ---> Attempting to fetch db-4.6.21.tar.gz from <a href="http://distfiles.macports.org/db4/4.6.21_6" rel="nofollow">http://distfiles.macports.org/db4/4.6.21_6</a> ---> Verifying checksum(s) for db46 ---> Extracting db46 ---> Applying patches to db46 ---> Configuring db46 ---> Building db46 ---> Staging db46 into destroot ---> Installing db46 @4.6.21_6 ---> Activating db46 @4.6.21_6 ---> Cleaning db46 ---> Fetching sqlite3 ---> Attempting to fetch sqlite-3.6.23.1.tar.gz from <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sqlite.org/</a> ---> Verifying checksum(s) for sqlite3 ---> Extracting sqlite3 ---> Configuring sqlite3 ---> Building sqlite3 ---> Staging sqlite3 into destroot ---> Installing sqlite3 @3.6.23.1_0 ---> Activating sqlite3 @3.6.23.1_0 ---> Cleaning sqlite3 ---> Fetching apr-util ---> Attempting to fetch apr-util-1.3.9.tar.bz2 from <a href="http://apache.mirror.rafal.ca/apr" rel="nofollow">http://apache.mirror.rafal.ca/apr</a> ---> Verifying checksum(s) for apr-util ---> Extracting apr-util ---> Configuring apr-util ---> Building apr-util ---> Staging apr-util into destroot ---> Installing apr-util @1.3.9_2 ---> Activating apr-util @1.3.9_2 ---> Cleaning apr-util ---> Fetching cyrus-sasl2 ---> Attempting to fetch cyrus-sasl-2.1.23.tar.gz from <a href="ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail" rel="nofollow">ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail</a> ---> Verifying checksum(s) for cyrus-sasl2 ---> Extracting cyrus-sasl2 ---> Applying patches to cyrus-sasl2 ---> Configuring cyrus-sasl2 ---> Building cyrus-sasl2 ---> Staging cyrus-sasl2 into destroot ---> Installing cyrus-sasl2 @2.1.23_2+kerberos ---> Activating cyrus-sasl2 @2.1.23_2+kerberos ---> Cleaning cyrus-sasl2 ---> Fetching neon ---> Attempting to fetch neon-0.29.3.tar.gz from <a href="http://distfiles.macports.org/neon" rel="nofollow">http://distfiles.macports.org/neon</a> ---> Verifying checksum(s) for neon ---> Extracting neon ---> Configuring neon ---> Building neon ---> Staging neon into destroot ---> Installing neon @0.29.3_2 ---> Activating neon @0.29.3_2 ---> Cleaning neon ---> Fetching serf ---> Attempting to fetch serf-0.6.1.tar.bz2 from <a href="http://serf.googlecode.com/files/" rel="nofollow">http://serf.googlecode.com/files/</a> ---> Verifying checksum(s) for serf ---> Extracting serf ---> Configuring serf ---> Building serf ---> Staging serf into destroot ---> Installing serf @0.6.1_1 ---> Activating serf @0.6.1_1 ---> Cleaning serf ---> Fetching subversion ---> Attempting to fetch subversion-1.6.12.tar.bz2 from <a href="http://distfiles.macports.org/subversion" rel="nofollow">http://distfiles.macports.org/subversion</a> ---> Verifying checksum(s) for subversion ---> Extracting subversion ---> Applying patches to subversion ---> Configuring subversion ---> Building subversion ---> Staging subversion into destroot ---> Installing subversion @1.6.12_1 ---> Activating subversion @1.6.12_1 ---> Cleaning subversion # SVN unix commands were installed into location /opt/local/bin ~ Admin$ cd /opt/local/bin bin Admin$ ls # Change to the directory where OSX puts its localhost website files. bin Admin$ cd /Library/WebServer/Documents # Run a Subversion EXPORT of the CollectiveAccess SVN download address into the 'ca' folder created above. ca Admin$ /opt/local/bin/svn export <a href="http://collectiveaccess.svn.whirl-i-gig.com/CollectiveAccess/trunk" rel="nofollow">http://collectiveaccess.svn.whirl-i-gig.com/CollectiveAccess/trunk</a> A trunk A trunk/app A trunk/app/locale A trunk/app/locale/de_DE A trunk/app/locale/de_DE/messages.mo A trunk/app/locale/de_DE/messages.po … ... A trunk/js/ca/ca.utils.js A trunk/js/ca/ca.browsepanel.js A trunk/js/jit A trunk/js/jit/jit.js A trunk/js/jit/jit-yc.js Exported revision 4725. # Take a look in /Library/WebServer/Documents/trunk. Change the directory name to something more appropriate.

seth on "Colleges using Collective Access"

seth — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:22:01 +0000

I will. I suspect they only read the forum when they have problems...

seth on ".55 -.6 conversion utility -- Error Linking Object"

seth — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:21:05 +0000

What profile were you using?

bjm on ".55 -.6 conversion utility -- Error Linking Object"

bjm — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:25:48 +0000

Ach, sorry - before I waste any more of your time I will try to develop an appropriate installation profile. I'm am quite obviously trying to short circuit a process which requires a bit more attention. Sorry for the confusion.

bjm on ".55 -.6 conversion utility -- Error Linking Object"

bjm — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:46:44 +0000

Not at all. A more careful reading would have shown this to be the case. Ok -- I have updated the links but have a new problem. I'm getting a similar error, however now it is throwing a warning on line 1212 (missing argument 6) and also complaining that 'type1 is invalid'. Thoughts? Thanks again for your help so far..error follows: Warning: Missing argument 6 for ca_objects::addRepresentation(), called in /home/tng/webapps/collectiveaccess6/support/import/ca5x/convert.php on line 1212 and defined in /home/tng/webapps/collectiveaccess6/app/models/ca_objects.php on line 472 CONVERSION ERROR: ERROR LINKING OBJECT [243] to MEDIA [/home/tng/webapps/collectiveaccess/media/tng_collectiveaccess/images/1/0/11089_object_representations_media_1099_original.jpg]: Type id 1 is invalid; Type id 1 is invalid; Type id 1 is invalid; Type id 1 is invalid; Type id 1 is invalid; Type id 1 is invalid; Type id 1 is invalid; Type id 1 is invalid; Type id 1 is invalid; Type id 1 is invalid; Type id 1 is invalid TRYING REP: /home/tng/webapps/collectiveaccess/media/tng_collectiveaccess/images/1/1/66504_object_representations_media_1100_original.jpg

lambta on "Colleges using Collective Access"

lambta — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:17:50 +0000

Maybe you could encourage/nudge them... No responses, so far. It is summer and many academic personnel are on vacations, etc. But I would love to hear from some of them - their experiences, etc. would be of great help to us. Thanks- Tom Lamb Carleton College <a href="mailto:tlamb@carleton.edu">tlamb@carleton.edu</a>

stefan on "fedora"

stefan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:50:58 +0000

Hi Joris, please note that the code that adds repository support still lives in its seperate development branch and is yet to be merged into the trunk. So if your install is based on the "trunk" directory in our source code repository (odds are that it is since the error message you pasted doesn't exist in the repository development branch) there is no support for Fedora (yet). Stefan

Tranas Spietis on "SVN password"

Tranas Spietis — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:58:08 +0000

Sure. No issues with Providence, but Pawtucket seems to have issues. See attached png

seth on "SVN password"

seth — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:10:47 +0000

Hi, Thanks for catching that outdated link. I have just fixed that. You should be able to download without a password. I have no idea why the download is so slow. I know others have downloaded code out of SVN lately without a problem. Can you try again?

seth on ".55 -.6 conversion utility -- Error Linking Object"

seth — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:51:40 +0000

Actually the comment was a note to us that we needed to make those auto-configure at some point :-( Sorry for the confusion.

bjm on ".55 -.6 conversion utility -- Error Linking Object"

bjm — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:56:33 +0000

Many thanks Seth - I noticed these, but i think the comment said that they should auto-configure so I left them alone. I'll give that a shot, and will be back if it explodes again. Thanks again.

Tranas Spietis on "SVN password"

Tranas Spietis — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:50:05 +0000

Sorry, The URL's I used are those shown here - <a href="http://www.collectiveaccess.org/download" rel="nofollow">http://www.collectiveaccess.org/download</a> however, the Pawtucket link under ACCESS VIA SVN is <a href="http://collectiveaccess.svn.whirl-i-gig.com/CollectiveAccess/frontends/Pawtucket/trunk" rel="nofollow">http://collectiveaccess.svn.whirl-i-gig.com/CollectiveAccess/frontends/Pawtucket/trunk</a> but should be "Pawtucket2" ? HTH

Tranas Spietis on "SVN password"

Tranas Spietis — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:40:12 +0000

Hello Seth, pic attached. Using TortoiseSVN - apparently can simply drag and drop the trunk folder on the destination, but the download is extremely slow.

seth on ".55 -.6 conversion utility -- Error Linking Object"

seth — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:47:29 +0000

The paths to your media are wrong. The script you are using requires you change some hard-coded values so it can find the media and resolve the old links for the import. The values that need to change are on line 74 and 76. Before you fix that, however, you might want to consider not using the standard script and compatibility profile. The compatibility profile is just a straight port of the old system's fields into 0.6. Odds are that you don't use a lot of those old fields, and that there are a few fields you'd probably like to have. And, perhaps, you would want to take advantage of some of the new field types in 0.6. So... we would recommend you do what we do when converting a 0.6 install: first design an installation profile tailored to your needs, second modify the existing script to match the profile and third cross your fingers and run it. We can help you with all of this.

seth on "SVN password"

seth — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:38:09 +0000

There is no username or password – you can login anonymously. What URL are you using when you attempt to do your checkout?

Tranas Spietis on "SVN password"

Tranas Spietis — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:32:16 +0000

I would like to download release 0.6 via SVN, but the server requires a user name and password. Same as the forum user name and password? - or is there a default? TIA

bjm on ".55 -.6 conversion utility -- Error Linking Object"

bjm — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:33:20 +0000

Hello, Just working on upgrading to .6 from .55. I've run the conversion utility included in the release and everything goes smoothly apart from converting media entities. I get the following error during the conversion (for every media entity in the system): CONVERSION ERROR: ERROR LINKING OBJECT [363] to MEDIA [/web/production/opencollection/web/media/dursthttp://collectiveaccess6.thenewgallery.org/media/collectiveaccess6/images/1/7/72803_object_representations_media_1772_original.jpg]: /web/production/opencollection/web/media/dursthttp://collectiveaccess6.thenewgallery.org/media/collectiveaccess6/images/1/7/72803_object_representations_media_1772_original.jpg does not exist; No media was specified converting object: Artist Trading Cards Poster, June 27, 2009 [ATC.2009.06.03] TRYING REP: /web/production/opencollection/web/media/dursthttp://collectiveaccess6.thenewgallery.org/media/collectiveaccess6/images/1/7/85891_object_representations_media_1773_original.jpg Can anyone give me some insight or where to start digging? Thanks Ben

jorisj on "fedora"

jorisj — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:18:16 +0000

hi, I tried linking CA with Fedora by following the instructions on the wiki page ( <a href="http://wiki.collectiveaccess.org/index.php?title=Fedora_Repository" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.collectiveaccess.org/index.php?title=Fedora_Repository</a> ). My Fedora repository is up and running, but when I try to add a new media object in CA ( for example a JPG file ) I get the following error: * Saved changes to Object * There are errors preventing information in specific fields from being saved as noted below. o Could not create subdirectory for uploaded file () The object isn't showing up in my repository... I really don't have a clue in which direction I should be looking to solve this problem ... So any hints are much appreciated! thanks, joris

seth on "Colleges using Collective Access"

seth — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:22:29 +0000

They're out there. Hopefully some of them will contact you one way or another. (We can't speak for them of course)

lambta on "Colleges using Collective Access"

lambta — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:13:25 +0000

As a metadata librarian at Carleton College, I am working with my colleagues to select a Resource Management and Discovery Tool to organize, manage, and make the resources of our College archives available to our users. I am curious if there are any similar college and/or university archives out there that are currently using Collective Access. Any information would be helpful. Thank you- Tom Lamb Carleton College <a href="mailto:tlamb@carleton.edu">tlamb@carleton.edu</a>

seth on "Search by ID Number"

seth — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:23:30 +0000

Yeah, that's too old. Try updating. The "trunk" is now pretty stable, with all major changes done in a branch and we finally get ready for the proper release. seth

yu on "Support EAD?"

yu — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:29:12 +0000

Thank you very much for the response. I will look into the sample script and see if I can customize it to import our data (though I have little knowledge about PHP and MySQL). I'm very glad to know that the EAD export is in process. I will wait until next release!

marcolino on "Search by ID Number"

marcolino — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:11:51 +0000

Sorry, non I suppose I'm not at he latest SVN version: oper@LinRS:/var/www/doks2$ cd /opt/software/MySQL/collectiveaccess/trunk/ oper@LinRS:/opt/software/MySQL/collectiveaccess/trunk$ svn info Percorso: . URL: <a href="http://collectiveaccess.svn.whirl-i-gig.com/CollectiveAccess/trunk" rel="nofollow">http://collectiveaccess.svn.whirl-i-gig.com/CollectiveAccess/trunk</a> Repository: <a href="http://collectiveaccess.svn.whirl-i-gig.com" rel="nofollow">http://collectiveaccess.svn.whirl-i-gig.com</a> UUID del Repository: ee610dfb-7fa9-4814-a8bb-d709925e34e9 Revisione: 4007 Tipo di Nodo: directory Azione: normale Autore dell'Ultimo Cambiamento: stefan Revisione dell'Ultimo Cambiamento: 4007 Data dell'Ultimo Cambiamento: 2010-04-20 12:49:25 +0200 (mar, 20 apr 2010) I am in production now, and would like to avoid any risk causing problems to the people at the data entry... ;-) Tell me if this version is too old... The account is: username: seth password: seth! One more question: is it possible to add a a category in the Objects, which we forgot about when installing (after "documents", "paintings", "drawings", ... we need to add "installations") ? Thanks in advance!

billey on "Support EAD?"

billey — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:34:10 +0000

Yes, as Seth mentioned we are working on an DACS based profile that can export easily to well-formed EAD XML. This should be rolling out over the next couple weeks!