Scriblio Installation and Configuration

Terence Wonglbterenc@ust.hk

Systems Senior Technician, HKUST Library

Workshop on Implementing ScriblioThe Next-Generation Library Catalog

25 June 2008The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Library

Last revised: 23 June 2008

1. System Overview and Requirements

2. Suggestions

• Working Procedure

• Installation

• Configuration

3. Demonstration

4. Reference URLs

1. System Overview and Requirements

2. Suggestions

• Working Procedure

• Installation

• Configuration

3. Demonstration

4. Reference URLs

• Scriblio in HKUST Library

• Hardware

• CPU - Intel Core 2 CPU, 2.13GHz

• RAM - 4 GB

• HD - 160 GB

• Network card - 100 Mbps

System Overview & Requirements

System Overview & Requirements

Apache MySQL SphinxWordPress + plugins

Linux OS

• Software

Apache• http://httpd.apache.org/

• Web server

Apache

MySQL

Sphinx

WordPress +

plugins

Linux OS

MySQL• http://www.mysql.com/

• MySQL Community Server

• a relational database management system

• runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases

Apache

MySQL

Sphinx

WordPress +

plugins

Linux OS

Sphinx• http://www.sphinxsearch.com/

• a standalone full-text search engine

• provide fast, size-efficient and relevant full-text search functions to other applications

Apache

MySQL

Sphinx

WordPress +

plugins

Linux OS

WordPress• http://wordpress.org/

• a state-of-the-art blog publishing system

• focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability

• all data is stored in a MySQL database

Apache

MySQL

Sphinx

WordPress +

plugins

Linux OS

WordPress Plugins• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

• extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine

• bSuite

• Scriblio

Apache

MySQL

Sphinx

WordPress +

plugins

Linux OS

bSuite• http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/

bsuite.3.0.5.zip

• a set of tools that improve WordPress' tag management

• make it easier to build dynamic pages

Apache

MySQL

Sphinx

WordPress +

plugins

Linux OS

Scriblio• http://about.scriblio.net/

• OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress

• free and open source

Apache

MySQL

Sphinx

WordPress +

plugins

Linux OS

1. System Overview and Requirements

2. Suggestions

• Working Procedure

• Installation

• Configuration

3. Demonstration

4. Reference URLs

Working Procedure• Installation procedure

• Install.txt

Suggestion - Installation

• Software packages (RPM)

• WordPress

• php-mbstring

• Compile Sphinx from source code

• mysql-devel

Suggestion - Installation

• MySQL

• character set: utf8

• collation: utf8_unicode_ci

• CREATE DATABASE wordpress character set 'utf8' collate 'utf8_unicode_ci';

• MySQL 5.1.24 + Wordpress 2.3.3 install script ==> Error establishing a database connection

Suggestion - Configuration

• MySQL

• my.cnf, stopword.txt

• Sphinx

• sphinx.conf, conf_sphinx.php

• WordPress

• wp-config.php, setting screen capture

Screen Capture• WordPress setting

1. System Overview and Requirements

2. Suggestions

• Working Procedure

• Installation

• Configuration

3. Demonstration

4. Reference URLs

Demonstration

• Installation

• WordPress

• bSuite, Scriblio plugin and theme

• Sphinx

1. System Overview and Requirements

2. Suggestions

• Working Procedure

• Installation

• Configuration

3. Demonstration

4. Reference URLs

Reference URLs• Installing and configuring Scriblio

• http://about.scriblio.net/wiki/installing-scriblio

• Scriblio ten minute installation screencast

• http://www.viddler.com/misterbisson/videos/1

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Thank You!