SUNScholar/Install Ubuntu/S02

Step 2. Before Installation

Hostname selection

It is assumed you have not yet decided on a hostname (URL) for your server.

At Stellenbosch University we chose http://scholar.sun.ac.za for a purely research outputs repository and http://digital.lib.sun.ac.za for our library digital collections.

For a repository of digitised heritage items, then something like: http://heritage.my.ac.za may be appropriate.

For a repository that will be a general archive of digital items, then http://archives.my.ac.za may be appropriate.

Therefore you have to decide what the function of the repository is, before naming it.

Whatever you decide, it is very important that you do not change it later for the purposes of preventing "linkrot" and web server "error 404, item not found" errors.

Discuss the hostname selection with your repository manager/owner and campus network administrator first, before finalising on a name.

For more information about the reason for our hostname selection, please read the web analytics wiki page.

Do not continue with the installation until you have finalised the hostname (URL) with your repository manager and campus network administrator.

Proceed to the next step