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Automate DSpace 8 Installation with a Script
Step 1: Copy the script below to your server and save it as install_dspace.sh Step 2: Update the variables section in the script Step 3: Make the script executable Step 4: Run the script as superuser
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Install DSpace 8 on Ubuntu 24.04
This guide shows how to quickly install dspace 8 on Ubuntu 24.04 server for testing purposes. If you follow this guide to install a production server, please MAKE SURE to change the default passwords and other necessary security requirements for your system. Hardware requirements: This guide was developed using a VPS server with the following…
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Run solr 8 on localhost only
It is a bad practice to expose your solr instance to the public, your data could be manipulated or worse, deleted. Apart from blocking solr’s port 8983 using the firewall, it is also good practice to run solr on localhost only if the service that consumes solr services is running on the same host, eg…
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DSpace 7 UI Customization: Enable New Custom Theme
Prerequisites Step 1: Copy custom theme and rename to a different name Step 2: Register the new theme as shown below in angular.json
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Install DSpace 7.6 on Ubuntu 22.04
PREREQUISITES Update and upgrade packages sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
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DSpace 6.x Backup Guide with an Automation Script
Making backups of your DSpace is an essential task to ensure that you can recover from any disaster that might occur, such as hardware failure or data corruption. This guide assumes a dspace 6.x or older setup. Here are the steps you can follow to perform a backup of the repository.
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DSpace mail.extraproperties working settings for gmail smtp
mail.extraproperties = mail.smtp.socketFactory.port=465, \ mail.smtp.socketFactory.class=javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory, \ mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback=false, \ mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true, \ mail.smtp.auth=true, \ mail.smtp.ssl.protocols=TLSv1.2, \ mail.smtp.ssl.trust=smtp.gmail.com

