DSpace Installation Requirements People Network Hardware Software … and TIME ! Francesco Bergamaschi U.O. Management Control – Università di Parma
People to install the software to maintain the server to modify and maintain the server software. Francesco Bergamaschi U.O. Management Control – Università di Parma
Network Infrastructure Link persistence Francesco Bergamaschi U.O. Management Control – Università di Parma
Hardware Buy a server or Buy a cloud server. Francesco Bergamaschi U.O. Management Control – Università di Parma
Software UNIX-like OS (i.e. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server) or Microsoft Windows Java JDK 7 or 8 (OpenJDK or Oracle JDK) not JRE Apache Maven 3.0.5 or above (3.3.9+)* (Java build tool) Apache Ant 1.8 or later (Java build tool) Relational Database: PostgreSQL or Oracle (i.e. PostgreSQL 9.4 or later with pgcrypto installed) Servlet Engine (Apache Tomcat 7 or later, Jetty, Caucho Resin or equivalent). Francesco Bergamaschi U.O. Management Control – Università di Parma
Installation: The installation involves three steps: Install the server operating system 2. Prepare the server with the Prerequisite Software (for DSpace) 3. Install DSpace. Francesco Bergamaschi U.O. Management Control – Università di Parma
Install DSpace: Download DSpace software Unpack the DSpace software Configure the DSpace software Compile/build the DSpace software Deploy the appropriate Webapps Test the major DSpace components. Francesco Bergamaschi U.O. Management Control – Università di Parma
Just don’t forget the Post Installation tasks like: Handle server Make Secure “logins” Disaster recovery (backups) … Francesco Bergamaschi U.O. Management Control – Università di Parma