VuFind

Introduction

This wiki page documents the installation and configuration of VuFind on an Ubuntu server.

See: https://vufind.org

Installation

Step 1

Install the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 Bit server software.

When asked for additional software, select OpenSSH and LAMP Stack.

For our test server we used a 100GB virtual machine, 20GB was used for the root partition, 1GB for swap and the rest mounted on the /var folder.

We are using http://search.sun.ac.za as the hostname and the service will be advertised as SUNSearch.

Step 2

Login to the server remotely and setup the software sources for the server. See: http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Repositories-12.04-LTS then update the software.

Step 3

Download the VuFind software to the /tmp folder and create an installation folder as follows.

cd /tmp
wget http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/files/vufind/vufind-2.2.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf vufind-2.2.1.tar.gz

References

• https://vufind.org/wiki
• https://vufind.org/wiki/vufind2:installation_ubuntu
• https://vufind.org/wiki/vufind2:using_vufind_as_the_site_root