Getting Started with EPrints 3 - Revision history

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk: Two pages about basically the same thing is confusing. The "Getting Started" page should be fine as no-one uses anything but EPrints 3.x

2023-10-04T11:36:16Z

Two pages about basically the same thing is confusing. The "Getting Started" page should be fine as no-one uses anything but EPrints 3.x

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Ajm: Typo correction in "Running epadmin...Create an initial user...Enter a username" section as follows: The username you will be used -> The username you will use

2023-07-04T13:46:58Z

Typo correction in "Running epadmin...Create an initial user...Enter a username" section as follows: The username you will be used -> The username you will use

Th.lauke@arcor.de: formatting corrected

2019-08-07T14:45:42Z

formatting corrected

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk at 17:43, 13 March 2019

2019-03-13T17:43:50Z

Drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk: Added instructions pertinent to 3.4

2019-03-13T17:43:36Z

Added instructions pertinent to 3.4

Kgoetz: After 10 years I figure its time to update the example output

2018-09-19T03:43:40Z

After 10 years I figure its time to update the example output

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Kgoetz: mention other eprints path

2018-09-19T02:40:49Z

mention other eprints path

Th.lauke@arcor.de: updated

2015-10-09T11:07:11Z

updated

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Th.lauke@arcor.de: updated to 3.2.4

2010-11-18T10:05:33Z

updated to 3.2.4

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Pm705 at 18:08, 13 March 2010

2010-03-13T18:08:37Z

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 * Create database tables - say 'yes' to have epadmin create all the database tables, i.e. initiate the same as with <tt>epadmin create_tables ''archive_id''</tt>.
 * Create an initial user - It's a good idea to create a user account for yourself at this point, but you can start the same process by <tt>epadmin create_user ''archive_id''</tt> anytime ...
-** Enter a username - The username you will be used to log into EPrints on the home page of the new archive.
+** Enter a username - The username you will use to log into EPrints on the home page of the new archive.
 ** Select a user type (user|editor|admin) - There are three user roles in EPrints.  You probably want to be an administrator, so enter 'admin'.
 ** Enter Password - A password for this user.  Remember to choose a password that will be hard for someone else to guess!

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 ==Regular Maintenance==
-EPrints front end web pages and abstracts *are not* automatically updated when you make changes to the repository.
+EPrints front end web pages and abstracts '''are ''not'' automatically updated''' when you make changes to the repository.
 To apply your changes and update the web pages:
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 ===Generate Abstracts===
-   eprints@host$ bin/generate_abstracts yourarchivename
+   eprints@host$ bin/generate_abstracts ''yourarchivename''
 Finally a restart of your apache server is recommended, because a lot of settings will only be read initially!

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   bin/epadmin create
-If you are running EPrints 3.4 or later you will need a further parameter to define which flavour of repository you want.  The common two choices are either '''pub''' or ''zero''':
+If you are running EPrints 3.4 or later you will need a further parameter to define which flavour of repository you want.  The common two choices are either '''pub''' or '''zero''':
   bin/epadmin create pub

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		+	If you are running EPrints 3.4 or later you will need a further parameter to define which flavour of repository you want. The common two choices are either '''pub''' or ''zero''':
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		+	bin/epadmin create pub

	You will get the following prompts (note that when you see something in [square brackets], it's the default value and can be selected by simply hitting <enter>):		You will get the following prompts (note that when you see something in [square brackets], it's the default value and can be selected by simply hitting <enter>):

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 Change to your eprints user (probably ''eprints'').
-Change directory to the eprints directory (<tt>/opt/eprints3</tt> by default) and run
+Change directory to the eprints directory (<tt>/opt/eprints3</tt> by default for a source install and <tt>/usr/share/eprints</tt> for packaged installs) and run
   bin/epadmin create

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 [[Category:Manual]]
 [[Category:Management]]
 ==Creating an Archive==