[Isis-users] ABCD and PHP5.3

[De Smet Egbert]

Using a virtualhost with e.g. port 9090 is a known solution, but I wonder why not it can be run in an 'alias' instead of virtual host.
WIth an alias, e.g. baptized 'abcd', the URL would be e.g. http://myserver/abcd/site (for ABCD Site, working well), http://myserver/abcd/iah (for OPAC, but not working)  and http://myserver/abcd/ for the Central (working well), which seems more logical than something like http://myserver:9090/site .

In other words : I like the alias approach of WAMP, but we can't use it with ABCD. That is be a problem not too difficult to solve I presume, but some more documentation about the iah.def.php URL definition would be welcome.

Egbert de Smet
Universiteit Antwerpen
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Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 7:49 PM
To: isis-users at iccisis.org
Subject: Re: [Isis-users] ABCD and PHP5.3

We have installed ABCD under
- default package as distributed by Bireme in XP, Windows 7  32&64 bits
- xampp
- wamp
- AppServ
- IIS 6
- Ubuntu 10   32&64 bits
without any problem
As a recommendation we suggest to create a virtual hosts
declare them in the file httpd.conf    near the bottom of the file
# Various default settings
  Include "conf/extra/httpd-vhosts-abcd.conf
also declare the port in this file

and then createn in the directory  extra below a corresponding file   httpd-vhosts-abcd.conf
a virtual host declaration, something like

<VirtualHost *:9090>
     ServerAdmin serveradmin at bvs.br<mailto:serveradmin at bvs.br>
     DocumentRoot "/ABCD/www/htdocs"
<Directory "/ABCD/www/htdocs">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
</Directory>
    DirectoryIndex index.htm index.php homepage.htm
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/ABCD/www/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/ABCD/www/cgi-bin/">
    AllowOverride None
       Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
       Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Ernesto Spinak

El 24/11/2011 16:31, De Smet Egbert escribió:

One more comment on running ABCD with WAMP :
I was successfully of running it with an 'alias' (in the alias-folder), which is very much handy as it can co-exist with other websites under the Apache-server), but except for iah. There I get a complaint that cgi-bin/wxis cannot be found.
The alias-file re-defines the DocumentRoot of Apache as well as the cgi-bin folder as ScriptAlias, referring to resp. /ABCD/www/htdocs and /ABCD/www/cgi-bin.

If anybody succeeded in also running iah (OPAC) with a WAMP-alias, very much interested here...

Egbert de Smet
Universiteit Antwerpen
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Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 5:27 PM
To: isis-users at iccisis.org<mailto:isis-users at iccisis.org>
Subject: [Isis-users] ABCD and PHP5.3

Dear colleagues,

I have been experimenting with running ABCD in a PHP5.3 installation. PHP5.3 is out for quite some time now, comes by definition with any newer Linux installation and is e.g. also part of the newer WAMP-installations in Windows.Therefore we cannot afford sticking with PHP5.2 for long anymore, for sure.
Anybody else has been testing this and if so, with which results ?

I could give a more detailed report, but basically my finding is this : all of ABCD can work well, except the Site, where the metasearch (or the link to the filter-screen) results into empty screens due to a problem with the XML2tree library.
Mostly I had to work on the following, testing with PHP5.3.5 (but more testing will be necessary) :
- replace deprecated functions 'eregi' and 'split' by resp. mb_ereg() and 'explode()' in all scripts (mb_ereg however is also not accepted in all PHP-versions it seems... another example of the problematic PHP development).
- some smaller problems about undefined 'set-offs' (unexisting indexed of arrays) had to be solved or avoided
- php.ini settings are crucial and sensitive but can be transferred from the PHP5.2 one
- only the Site page is still problematic by resulting in empty pages when clicking on 'Search' or 'Filter'. As far as we can see this is due to a different result from the XML-parser in XML2tree.
This last problem is a major one as the Site is probably the most visible part of ABCD - to the end-users that is.
Any help or suggestions on how to tackle that problem would be most welcome...
It would be nice if we could prepare for a version 2.0 which is also PHP5.3 compatible !


Egbert de Smet
Universiteit Antwerpen
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