koha-common.README.Debian

Post-installation configuration
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You will want to consider doing the following after installing this
package:

* Install mysql-server, for a local database.

* Alternatively, set up a connection to a remote MySQL server:
  - rm /etc/mysql/koha-common.cnf
  - $EDITOR /etc/mysql/koha-common.cnf

        [client]
        host = some.other.host
        user = mysqlusername
        password = mysqlpassword
        
* Enable the rewrite module: a2enmod rewrite

* Listen on port 8080: $EDITOR /etc/apache2/ports.conf

* Alternatively, configure koha-create, using /etc/koha/koha-sites.conf
  (see /usr/sbin/koha-create for which variables to set).
  
* After that, you can create a new Koha instance:
  - koha-create --create-db name


Koha filesystem layout on Debian
================================

The Debian packaging of Koha puts files in the following places:

* /etc/koha -- system configuration files
* /etc/cron.hourly/koha-common -- cron job
* /etc/cron.daily/koha-common -- cron job
* /etc/cron.d/koha-common -- cron job
* /usr/share/koha -- shared files (HTML templates, Perl code, etc)

Each Koha instance has files in the following places:

* /etc/koha/sites/$name -- confguration files
* /etc/apache2/sites-available/$name -- Apache config file
* /var/lib/koha/$name -- Zebra databases
* /var/log/koha/$name -- log files (Apache, Zebra)
* /var/lock/koha/$name -- run-time lock files
* /var/run/koha/$name -- run-time sockets etc
* /var/spool/koha/$name -- database dumps


Koha and MySQL
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koha-common's postinst script sets up the /etc/mysql/koha-common.cnf,
and all scripts use that to access the MySQL database. By default, it
is a symlink pointing at debian.cnf, and only works on localhost.
If you wish, you can create a file /etc/mysql/koha-common.cnf instead
of the symlink, and point it at a remote server. There is currently
no tool to help you do that, but it should be fairly straightforward.