Install the Koha ILS

Preliminary notes on setting up Koha ILS on Google Cloud.

Helpful documentation and demos:

• Koha on Debian
• Install Koha on Google Cloud Platform

Pre-setup

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get autoremove -y 
apt-get install gnupg2

Prep Koha

Add Koha to repos:

echo 'deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list

Use the first one but listing the second just in case:

wget -qO - https://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/koha-keyring.gpg
#wget -q -O- https://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Install Koha:

apt-get update
apt-get install koha-common
nano /etc/koha/koha-sites.conf
# add:
# INTRAPORT="8080"
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
mysqladmin -u root password bibliolib1
a2enmod rewrite
a2enmod cgi 
systemctl restart apache2
koha-create --create-db bibliolib
nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf 
# add:
# Listen: 8080
systemctl restart apache2
a2dissite 000-default
a2enmod deflate
a2ensite bibliolib
systemctl reload apache2
systemctl restart apache2

Get username and password

nano /etc/koha/sites/bibliolib/koha-conf.xml

Run the web installer at:

Be sure to follow instructions.

http://IP-ADDRESS:8080