usability and let Pazpar2 do what it does best -- metasearch.
</para>
<para>
- If you wish to connect to commercial or other databases which do not
- support open standards, please contact Index Data on
- <email>info@indexdata.com</email>. We have a
- proprietary framework for building connectors that enable Pazpar2
- to access
- thousands of online databases, in addition to the vast number of catalogs
- and online services that support the Z39.50/SRU/SRW protocols.
- </para>
- <para>
Pazpar2 is our attempt to re-think the traditional paradigms for
implementing and deploying metasearch logic, with an uncompromising
approach to performance, and attempting to make maximum use of the
</para>
</section>
+ <section id="connectors">
+ <title>Connectors to non-standard databases</title>
+ <para>
+ If you wish to connect to commercial or other databases which do not
+ support open standards, please contact Index Data on
+ <email>info@indexdata.com</email>. We have a
+ proprietary framework for building connectors that enable Pazpar2
+ to access
+ thousands of online databases, in addition to the vast number of catalogs
+ and online services that support the Z39.50/SRU/SRW protocols.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
<section id="name">
<title>A note on the name Pazpar2</title>
<para>
<chapter id="installation">
<title>Installation</title>
<para>
- The Pazpar2 package is very small. It includes documentation as well
+ The Pazpar2 package includes documentation as well
as the Pazpar2 server. The package also includes a simple user
- interface test1 which consists of a single HTML page and a single
+ interface called "test1", which consists of a single HTML page and a single
JavaScript file to illustrate the use of Pazpar2.
</para>
<para>
</para>
<section id="installation.unix">
- <title>Installation on Unix (from Source)</title>
+ <title>Installation from source on Unix (including Linux, MacOS, etc.)</title>
<para>
The latest source code for Pazpar2 is available from
<ulink url="&url.pazpar2.download;"/>.
- Only few systems have none of the required
- tools binary packages.
- If, for example, Libxml2/libXSLT libraries
- are already installed as development packages use these.
+ Most Unix-based operating systems have the required
+ tools available as binary packages.
+ For example, if Libxml2/libXSLT libraries
+ are already installed as development packages, use these.
</para>
<para>
- Ensure that the development libraries + header files are
+ Ensure that the development libraries and header files are
available on your system before compiling Pazpar2. For installation
- of YAZ, refer to the YAZ installation chapter.
+ of YAZ, refer to the Installation chapter of the YAZ manual at
+ <ulink url="&url.yaz.install;"/>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Once the dependencies are in place, Pazpar2 can be unpacked and
+ installed as follows:
</para>
<screen>
- gunzip -c pazpar2-version.tar.gz|tar xf -
- cd pazpar2-version
+ tar xzf pazpar2-VERSION.tar.gz
+ cd pazpar2-VERSION
./configure
make
- su
- make install
+ sudo make install
</screen>
<para>
The <literal>make install</literal> will install manpages as well as the
</section>
<section id="installation.win32">
- <title>Installation on Windows (from Source)</title>
+ <title>Installation from source on Windows</title>
<para>
Pazpar2 can be built for Windows using
<ulink url="&url.vstudio;">Microsoft Visual Studio</ulink>.
processed by the NMAKE utility part of Visual Studio.
</para>
<para>
- Ensure that the development libraries + header files are
+ Ensure that the development libraries and header files are
available on your system before compiling Pazpar2. For installation
- of YAZ, refer to the YAZ installation chapter.
+ of YAZ, refer to
+ the Installation chapter of the YAZ manual at
+ <ulink url="&url.yaz.install;"/>.
It is easiest if YAZ and Pazpar2 are unpacked in the same
directory (side-by-side).
</para>
<para>
The compilation is tuned by editing the makefile of Pazpar2.
The process is similar to YAZ. Adjust the various directories
- <literal>YAZ_DIR</literal>, <literal>ZLIB_DIR</literal>, ..
+ <literal>YAZ_DIR</literal>, <literal>ZLIB_DIR</literal>, etc.,
+ as required.
</para>
<para>
Compile Pazpar2 by invoking <application>nmake</application> in
</section>
<section id="installation.test1">
- <title>Installation of test1 interface</title>
+ <title>Installation of test interfaces</title>
<para>
- In this section we outline how to install a simple interface that
- is part of the Pazpar2 source package. Note that Debian users can
- save time by just installing package <literal>pazpar2-test1</literal>.
+ In this section we show how to make available the set of simple
+ interfaces that are part of the Pazpar2 source package, and which
+ demonstrate some ways to use Pazpar2. (Note that Debian users can
+ save time by just installing the package <literal>pazpar2-test1</literal>.)
</para>
<para>
- A web server must be installed and running on the system, such as Apache.
+ A web server, such as Apache, must be installed and running on the system.
</para>
<para>
..\bin\pazpar2 -f pazpar2.cfg
</screen>
This will start a Pazpar2 listener on port 9004. It will proxy
- HTTP requests to localhost - port 80, which we assume will be the regular
+ HTTP requests to port 80 on localhost, which we assume will be the regular
HTTP server on the system. Inspect and modify pazpar2.cfg as needed
- if this is to be changed. The pazpar2.cfg includes settings from the
+ if this is to be changed. The pazpar2.cfg file includes settings from the
file <filename>settings/edu.xml</filename>
to use for searches.
</para>
+
<para>
- Make a new console and move to the other stuff.
- For more information about pazpar2 options refer to the manpage.
+ The test UIs are located in <literal>www</literal>. Ensure that this
+ directory is available to the web server by copying
+ <literal>www</literal> to the document root,
+ using Apache's <literal>Alias</literal> directive, or
+ creating a symbolic link: for example, on a Debian or Ubuntu
+ system with Apache2 installed from the standard package, you might
+ make the link as follows:
+ <screen>
+ cd .../pazpar2
+ sudo ln -s `pwd`/www /var/www/pazpar2-demo
+ </screen>
</para>
-
+
<para>
- The test1 UI is located in <literal>www/test1</literal>. Ensure this
- directory is available to the web server by either copying
- <literal>test1</literal> to the document root, create a symlink or
- use Apache's <literal>Alias</literal> directive.
+ This makes the test applications visible at
+ <ulink url="http://localhost/pazpar2-demo/"/>
+ but they can not be run successfully from that URL, as they submit
+ search requests back to the server form which they were served,
+ and Apache2 doesn't know how to handle them. Instead, the test
+ applications must be accessed from Pazpar2 itself, acting as a
+ proxy to Apache2, at the URL
+ <ulink url="http://localhost:9004/pazpar2-demo/"/>
</para>
<para>
- The interface test1 interface should now be available on port 8004.
+ From here, the demo applications can be
+ accessed: <literal>test1</literal>, <literal>test2</literal> and
+ <literal>jsdemo</literal>
+ are pure HTML+JavaScript setups, needing no server-side
+ intelligence;
+ <literal>demo</literal>
+ requires PHP on the server.
</para>
<para>
- If you don't see the test1 interface. See if test1 is really available
- on the same URL but on port 80. If it's not, the Apache configuration
- (or other) is not correct.
+ If you don't see the test interfaces, check whether they are available
+ on port 80 (i.e. directly from the Apache2 server). If not, the
+ Apache configuration is incorrect.
</para>
<para>
In order to use Apache as frontend for the interface on port 80
</section>
<section id="installation.debian">
- <title>Installation on Debian GNU/Linux</title>
- <para>
- Index Data provides Debian packages for Pazpar2. These are prepared
- for Debian versions Etch and Lenny (as of 2007).
- These packages are available at
- <ulink url="&url.pazpar2.download.debian;"/>.
+ <title>Installation on Debian or Ubuntu GNU/Linux</title>
+ <para>
+ Index Data provides Debian and Ubuntu packages for Pazpar2.
+ As of February 2010, these
+ are prepared for Debian versions Etch, Lenny and Squeeze; and for
+ Ubuntu versions 8.04 (hardy), 8.10 (intrepid), 9.04 (jaunty) and
+ 9.10 (karmic). These packages are available at
+ <ulink url="&url.pazpar2.download.debian;"/> and
+ <ulink url="&url.pazpar2.download.ubuntu;"/>.
</para>
</section>