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Re: [EP-tech] Copy live EPrints to staging server

Yes, I think that's the next step - look at matching the live versions of Ubuntu, Apache and PHP!

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On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:45 AM -0700, "Adam Field" <Adam.Field@jisc.ac.uk<mailto:Adam.Field@jisc.ac.uk>> wrote:

'fraid so :(

I know there were some big issues a while ago with a new version of apache that required some bugfixing.  If you're living in the past with your live EPrints installation, you may also need to live in the past with your dev box.



[Jisc]<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/>

Adam Field
SHERPA services analyst developer


From: <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk>> on behalf of Andrew Beeken <anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk<mailto:anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk>>
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Date: Thursday, 28 April 2016 15:35
To: "eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>" <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Copy live EPrints to staging server

Hnggh,  I think this is going to cause me problems. I’ll need to make sure I’m using the same version of Apache as we are on live, I guess?

From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alan.Stiles
Sent: 28 April 2016 15:12
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Copy live EPrints to staging server

And also see this https://github.com/eprints/eprints/issues/214 as it may be related depending on your eprints / apache versions?

(hat tip to Peter West)

From:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Andrew Beeken
Sent: 28 April 2016 13:58
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Copy live EPrints to staging server

Right – it’s probably not, the system was set up vanilla. I shall try to add it to Apache and see if that helps.

From:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alan.Stiles
Sent: 28 April 2016 13:44
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Copy live EPrints to staging server

CPAN reckons the remote_ip method is in the Apache2::Connection package – is it there on your test system? Is the system actually finding the package to load it?  What version of Apache do you have installed?

From:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Andrew Beeken
Sent: 28 April 2016 13:12
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Copy live EPrints to staging server

Any further thoughts on this?

From:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Andrew Beeken
Sent: 27 April 2016 13:21
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Copy live EPrints to staging server

Okay, the error log is throwing:

[Wed Apr 27 13:19:26.693735 2016] [perl:error] [pid 2876] [client 127.0.0.1:57412] Can't locate object method "remote_ip" via package "Apache2::Connection" at /lirolem-dev/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/LoginTicket.pm line 143.\n

From:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Field
Sent: 27 April 2016 12:07
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Copy live EPrints to staging server

What's in the error log?


[Jisc]<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/>

Adam Field
SHERPA services analyst developer


From: <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk>> on behalf of Andrew Beeken <anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk<mailto:anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk>>
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Date: Wednesday, 27 April 2016 11:56
To: "eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>" <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Copy live EPrints to staging server

Okay, so I’m now done with that but it’s throwing a very unhelpful internal server error. Is there anything I need to run from the command line to rebuild things, or any way of seeing a more helpful indication of where its falling over?

From:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Field
Sent: 27 April 2016 11:36
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Copy live EPrints to staging server

Correct!

[Jisc]<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/>

Adam Field
SHERPA services analyst developer


From: <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk>> on behalf of Andrew Beeken <anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk<mailto:anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk>>
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Date: Wednesday, 27 April 2016 11:21
To: "eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>" <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Copy live EPrints to staging server

Okay, so I can get as far as step 7 – now, I’m running this from the development tree (that I copied from live), rather than the installed tree. Is this right? Likewise, I presume I need to change the 10_core file in the development tree?

From:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Andrew Beeken
Sent: 25 April 2016 14:20
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Copy live EPrints to staging server

Thanks Adam – step 11 is pretty much why I’m doing this :) I did have a dev build on an old Macbook but the VM wouldn’t restore itself on my new Windows machine so, starting from scratch! (yay!)

From:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk> [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Field
Sent: 25 April 2016 13:43
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Copy live EPrints to staging server

1) install a fresh copy of EPrints and configure it to work on the dev server (to make sure all prerequisites are ship-shape).  It'll make things simpler if you use the same database name, username and password as the live repository.  Test that you can raise it in a browser, log in, create a record, etc.  There's a training video for this.
2) Dump the live database into the EPrint tree somewhere (perhaps <eprints_root>/archives/<foo>/db_dump/<timestamped_filename>.mysqldump)
3) Create an tarball of the EPrints tree (tar cvzf live_eprints<datestamp>.tar.gz <eprints_root>)
4) Copy the tarball to dev
5) tar xvzf the file to somewhere appropriate, check file permissions for the apache user on dev
6) undump the database dump (cat filename | mysql -u username -p) -- easy if you have used the same username and password as all the permissions are set up.  Still easy if you didn't and know how to create users and set permissions in mysql.
7) edit the 10_core.pl file in the archive directory to use the URL of the dev server.  Then run generate apacheconf (I think with the --replace flag, but that's from memory).
8) Change your apache configuration to point to where you unpacked the eprint tree.
9) restart apache.
10) Debug the above process and document it on the wiki.
11) Think about getting your repository into source control to make this easier.


[Jisc]<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/>

Adam Field
SHERPA services analyst developer


From: <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk>> on behalf of Andrew Beeken <anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk<mailto:anbeeken@lincoln.ac.uk>>
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Date: Monday, 25 April 2016 12:47
To: "eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>" <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>>
Subject: [EP-tech] Copy live EPrints to staging server

Hi folks,

I’m trying to bring our live EPrints install over to a staging server to do some work on it, but I’m struggling to do this in an elegant way. What’s the best approach? I tried bringing the archive files down and repopulating the database; there are also a few core changes to our install in Perl-Lib which need bringing down however most times I pull all these across and restart apache it screws things over. I’m pretty sure I need to tweak some config settings and possibly run a few things from the command line but I was wondering if anyone could digest the procedure for me or point me in the direction of one if it’s already been written!

Cheers!
Andrew

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