Comments on: EasyDeposit – SWORD deposit tool creator

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:41:48 +0000

Hi Anita,

It sounds like you might not have mod_rewrite installed or functioning. You could either trying enabling it, or run it without mod_rewrite. See the bottom of this page: http://easydeposit.swordapp.org/instructions/mod_rewrite/

Thanks,

Stuart

By: Anita

Anita — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:34:35 +0000

Sorry… here is the continuation of the comment..

I must be doing something very basic mistake.

By: Anita

Anita — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:33:19 +0000

I am experimenting with Sword and came across EasyDeposit Client.. Seems like a wonderful idea. I did follow your instructions which seem to be pretty simple and straightforward. But obviously I did miss something since the index page shows fine but clicking on either the start deposit here link or the admin gives me a 404 page. I must be doing something very

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By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:05:22 +0000

Hi Nick,

Thanks for your feedback. Yes – installation is slightly tricky at the moment, but hopefully not too bad if the instructions are followed. I’ve taken on board your comments about being able to install it via FTP – I’ll have a think about that and see what can be done about it.

I’m hoping to make an administrative interface to it also, so that once it is installed you can edit the settings via a control panel rather than having to have access to the server directly (or via FTP etc).

Thanks for the feedback,

Stuart

By: Nick Sheppard

Nick Sheppard — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:51:58 +0000

Hi Stuart

This sounds like a brilliant idea and I would really like to have a go at installing it myself – I’ve had a look at your installation instructions and found them a little beyond me which is a reflection of my limited technical knowledge rather than any lack of clarity on your part. I can just about manage FTP and use Dreamweaver to access an institutionally managed test-server but from what I can glean from your instructions you are referring to installation on a local machine using the command line (as a child of Microsoft I’m a little afraid of the command line!)

As I mentioned on Twitter, I do have a colleague who can probably help me out but he’s very busy (mostly doing web-dev stuff for me!) and I do enjoy tinkering myself and wondered if there might be a way of installing EasyDeposit on my institutionally managed server using FTP?

Apologies for my installation-naivety; as you identify, one of the reasons that SWORD has not been more widely adopted is due to technical barriers for repository administrators.

Any help or advice greatly appreciated!

Cheers

Nick