Koha-gitify

Koha-gitify will convert an existing Koha package install to use source code located in a git repo.

Koha installation and Setup

These instructions will help you get a Koha up and running to use with koha-gitify. We will only go over using Ubuntu desktop edition to install Koha, doing this in a virtual machine on Windows or Mac should not be much different, but is left as an exercise for the reader.

Dependencies

we will need apache2 and mysql-server installed

sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo apt-get install apache2

and then enable Apache rewrite

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

Installing

These steps will install the Koha package from the current stable package available from the Koha Community

Type the following into your terminal:

echo deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha squeeze main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list

install the key (to keep apt-get happy)

wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt-key add -

update and install

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install koha-common

NB: If you get a prompt saying something along the lines of 'if you are upgrading, run /usr/sbin/koha-upgrade-to-3.4.sh' you can safely ignore this as we are doing a 'clean' install and not an upgrade

Install the Koha package site template

wget http://segfault.net.nz/koha-academy/koha-sites.conf
sudo mv koha-sites.conf /etc/koha/

Create your first Koha instance

sudo koha-create --create-db mykoha

In this case, "mykoha" is the name of our instance. You can name your instance whatever you like, but do make a note of the name for later.

Run the following command

echo 127.0.0.1 mykoha.localhost mykoha-intra.localhost | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

If you have named your instance something besides 'mykoha' - be sure to put that instance name in place of mykoha. if you are lucky (and you probably are), then you should be able to visit your new Koha instance, open your browser and try navigate to mykoha.localhost.

This is where most libraries stop. We have a few more tasks before we are done.

Transforming our Koha instance into a Developer instance

Now we take our Koha instance and make it developer friendly, for this we need git, you can see if you have git installed by typing

git

you may have to install it with

sudo apt-get install git

Find a place you want to store Koha, your home directory works nicely.

git clone git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git

now we have a fresh copy of the Koha codebase (in our Koha folder) Next, we need to get the koha-gitify script and make it executable From another directory (the same place we put our Koha directory could be nice)

git clone git://github.com/mkfifo/koha-gitify.git
cd koha-gitify
chmod +x koha-gitify

now we run koha-gitify to convert our Koha instance we created above to use the Koha git repository we just cloned above

sudo ./koha-gitify mykoha ~/koha

now we restart apache (our webserver that is hosting Koha)

sudo service apache2 restart

and then we can visit our Koha instance again, in a browser navigate to mykoha-intra.localhost

Logging in for the first time

We are first going to log in with the Super superlibrarian. This is the DB user and password.

db user is: koha_mykoha

(do recall that if you named your instance something other than mykoha, you will use that instance name in place of mykoha)

to get the db password, execute the following:

sudo xmlstarlet sel -t -v 'yazgfs/config/pass' /etc/koha/sites/mykoha/koha-conf.xml

(again, if you changed your instance name, replace 'mykoha' with your instance name)

Step through the Koha Installer

Now we are going to step through Koha's web installer. Please specify the following options:

Step 1: En -> Next
Dependencies ok -> Next
Database settings ok -> Next
Confirm -> Next
Step 3: -> Next, wait a tick
Success -> Next
Click the link "install basic configuration settings"
MARC Flavor: Tick Marc21 -> Next
Now: Tick all the boxes!
Click import, wait a tick
Success! -> Finish

If you now see a Koha login page, celebrate!

Log in with your credentials

You will see a yellow box alert saying "You're logged in with the database administrator..."

Click the link for "create a patron"
Give it a surname, a OPAC/Staff login and password, and click "Save"
This should bring you back to a patron detail.
Click More
Click Set Permissions
Tick the box for "Superlibrarian"
Click Set Flags
Click Log out in the upper right hand corner
Log in again with your new username and password. Now we are ready to rock with an installed Koha.