EPrints Directory Structure Tree

EPrints 3 Reference: Directory Structure - Metadata Fields - Repository Configuration - XML Config Files - XML Export Format - EPrints data structure - Core API - Data Objects

A graphical representation of the EPrints3 directory structure after executing the install.pl command. Initially the archives directory is empty, it is populated when executing (as the eprints user) the bin/epadmin create command. The new repository is created using the data in the lib/defaultcfg_zero/ directory if not using an flavour or flavours/FLAVOUR/defaultcfg/ if you are.

perl_lib

[perl routines]

bin

[command line and crontab tools]

cgi

[dynamic (cgi) EPrints web pages]

cfg

[apache configuration for the whole site]

testdata

[tools and sample test data]

tests

[unit tests]

tools

[command line tools]

var

[apache include files plus indexer log]

site_lib

[for customized system lib files or sitewide configuration concurrent to archives/[ArchiveID]/cfg]

lib

cfg.d

[core config files]

citations

[how to render data objects]

defaultcfg_zero

[the content of archives/ID/cfg/ is copied from here]

lang

XX (langid)

phrases

[system-wide phrases]

static

[web pages and icons]

namedsets

[options for namedset fields]

plugins

[extra EPrints plugins]

static

[files to be copied to the html directory]

syscfg.d

[system config files]

templates

[web page templates]

themes

example

lang

XX (langid)

phrases

[theme phrases]

static

[theme language-specific pages]

templates

[theme language-specific templates]

static

[theme CSS and images]

templates

[theme templates]

workflows

[workflows for data objects]

flavours

pub_lib

[see 3.4+ publication flavour]

ingredients

[see 3.4+ ingredients]

archives

ARCHIVEID

[see below]

The content of the "archives/[ArchiveID]/" directory. Any change you make here has effect on the particular repository only.

documents		[uploaded files, extracted words, abstract pages, etc.]
html		[static files for the repository on all languages]
var		[various repository dependent files]
cfg		subjects [used for importing the subject tree]
		static		images		[files to be copied to the html directory]
				javascript		[files to be copied to the html directory]
				style		[files to be copied to the html directory]
		cfg.d		[general configuration files as perl script fragments]
		autocomplete		[data files for the autocompletion feature]
		citations		[directories for citations for different data objects]
		namedsets		[files containing the possible values for different sets]
		workflows		[directories for workflows for different data objects]
		lang		XX (langid)		phrases		[phrases used locally]
						static		[templates for static html pages]
						templates		[default html page template]