1 Koha - award-winning GPL Integrated Library System
3 Koha aims to be a full-featured Integrated Library System. Developed
4 initially in New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd and first deployed
5 in January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust, it is currently
6 maintained by a team of software providers and library technology staff
13 Koha 3.0 has been restructured from Koha 2.2 to use Zebra,
14 a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and
15 retrieval engine. Zebra speaks Z39.50, building on one of Koha's most
18 General library data is held in MySQL, and Koha 3.0 supports MySQL 5,
19 using foreign keys and other recent features.
21 Apache 2 is the recommended web server and VirtualHost configuration
22 files are generated for it.
28 Koha 3.0 comes with a new installer, based on MakeMaker, the tool that
29 is usually used to install CPAN modules. This means that if you know
30 how to customise CPAN-installed modules, the same things should work
31 for you with Koha. If not, don't worry. If you want to customise the
32 installation more than described below, run "man ExtUtils::MakeMaker"
34 You need to have a server running MySQL 5, Zebra and some webserver
35 (preferably Apache) before installing Koha. Create a database in
36 MySQL called koha, owned by a kohaadmin user, with a password set.
38 Default installation instructions:
40 0. export MYSQL_PASS=thePasswordYouChose
44 4. ln -s /usr/share/koha/etc/koha-httpd.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/koha
45 5. a2ensite koha && /etc/init.d/apache reload
46 6. zebrasrv -c /usr/share/koha/etc/koha-conf.xml
47 7. Browse to http://servername:8080/ and answer the questions
49 OR if you want to install all dependencies from CPAN and are root, you can
50 replace steps 1-3 with "perl install-CPAN.pl" but this is non-standard and
51 may not be safe. Nevertheless, it's pretty cool when it works.
53 The defaults will install Koha to places that follow relevant standards,
54 such as the File Hierarchy Standard. If you want to install Koha to a
55 different directory like /opt/koha, then replace step 1 with:
56 1a. export PREFIX=/opt/koha
57 1b. export CGI_DIR=/opt/koha/cgi
58 1c. export LOG_DIR=/opt/koha/log
59 1d. perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/opt/koha
61 You can change most of the defaults in a similar way, such as MYSQL_HOST.
62 For full instructions on how to override the default settings, run
63 perldoc rewrite-config.PL
69 IF THIS IS A PRE-RELEASE TREE: please contact developers by email via
70 http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
72 http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.education.libraries.koha.devel
74 IF THIS IS A RELEASED VERSION: please see the support pages at
77 Released versions usually have three-digit numbers, like 3.00.01,
78 while other version number styles are usually snapshots or previews.
84 For instructions on how to package releases, run perldoc Makefile.PL