Re: [dspace-tech] DSpace 6.x Build Java Version

2021-09-30 Thread Shaun donovan
Ooops. My bad. I see I was building version 7. On 2021/09/30 11:27, Shaun donovan wrote: Hi All. I am building DSpace 6_x. The documentation states that one should use JDK 8 and that DSpace version 6 is not yet compatible with JDK 11. However, when I try to build using JDK8, I get an error

[dspace-tech] DSpace 6.x Build Java Version

2021-09-30 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi All. I am building DSpace 6_x. The documentation states that one should use JDK 8 and that DSpace version 6 is not yet compatible with JDK 11. However, when I try to build using JDK8, I get an error "Detected JDK Version: 1.8.0-302 is not in the allowed range 11". Pom.xml is set to only

[dspace-tech] Error with thumbnails not being created

2021-06-21 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi All. I am running version 6.x. I had to move up to it so that I could move my statistics cores from the old id to uuid, and 6.x is the only one that had the tools to do it. Now I have come across something strange. When I run filter-media, the output I get is: "FILTERED: bitstream

Re: [dspace-tech] Dspace 5.2 MVN package error on centos

2021-02-28 Thread 'Shaun donovan' via DSpace Technical Support
Hi Ghazi. Your issue is now too broad to simply give an answer. You need to start looking for clues in the Tomcat as well as the DSpace logs. It sounds like a Tomcat configuration error but I cannot be sure. On 2021/02/26 16:01, Ghazi Anwar wrote: Hi Shaun Thanks for your update . it helped

Re: [dspace-tech] Dspace 5.2 MVN package error on centos

2021-02-25 Thread 'Shaun donovan' via DSpace Technical Support
Hi Ghazi. I remember having this same issue. It is due to enhanced security on the repos. If memory serves, I had to go through all of the pom files and change http to https. Then, you need to disable old protocols for java. You can find this information at

Re: [dspace-tech] garbage collection in tomcat

2020-11-16 Thread 'Shaun donovan' via DSpace Technical Support
Hi Joshua. Garbage Collection in the JVM happens automatically and can be controlled by the switches that we use to start the JVM (in this case DSpace). It is a very complex and individual process. What I mean by this is that what works well on one installation will not necessarily work on

Re: [dspace-tech] dspace admin login certificate requirement

2020-06-29 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Dennis Add a new administrator by running "[dspace]/bin/dspace create-administrator" as the user that runs tomcat. Login to DSpace as that newly created administrator and go to the "People" link within the "Administrative" block of the navigation panel (I am assuming that you are using

Re: [dspace-tech] dspace import csv MalformedSourceException error

2020-05-25 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Humberto. The "import" function is for importing via the "Simple Archive Format", not from a csv file. You would need to take the CSV file and build a SAF structure, and then import it. You can get this information from

Re: [dspace-tech] Re: metadata element="identifier" qualifier="handle" is missing in pageMeta or DRI

2020-05-20 Thread Shaun donovan
I will add that it is also present in v5.5 and v6.3 but on Mirage (don't know about Mirage2). On 2020/05/20 16:15, 'Bill Tantzen' via DSpace Technical Support wrote: Well, I can't specifically answer your question, but I can verify that this element exists in v5.10 in the ! On Tue, May 19,

Re: [dspace-tech] Filter-media on encrypted files

2020-04-28 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi All. Answered my own question. Disabled pdftoolkit and re-enabled XPDF. Works with files that are set to prevent copying and seems to do a better job with the text extraction. Kind Regards. Shaun. On 2020/04/24 13:39, Shaun donovan wrote: Hi all. I am receiving the following error

[dspace-tech] Filter-media on encrypted files

2020-04-24 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi all. I am receiving the following error when trying to run filter-media on certain pdf files: java.io.IOException     at org.apache.pdfbox.filter.FlateFilter.decode(FlateFilter.java:108)     at org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSStream.doDecode(COSStream.java:379)     at

Re: [dspace-tech] authentication methods to use for swordv2 different from xmlui

2020-04-16 Thread Shaun donovan
Shaun donovan <mailto:sha...@teqcle.co.za>> wrote: Hi Jose. To accomplish the same thing in 6.3, I had to add two new methods to dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/authenticate/AuthenticationServiceImpl.java: Line 74 @Override public int authenticateSwor

Re: [dspace-tech] authentication methods to use for swordv2 different from xmlui

2020-04-15 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Jose. To accomplish the same thing in 6.3, I had to add two new methods to dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/authenticate/AuthenticationServiceImpl.java: Line 74 @Override public int authenticateSword(Context context, String un, String pw, String realm, HttpServletRequest request) {

Re: [dspace-tech] pool error Timeout waiting for idle object -- EVEN WHEN TOMCAT IS OFF

2019-12-11 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Carolyn. Try setting "db.maxidle = 10" in your local.cfg or dspace.cfg. By default is is set to -1 (unlimited), but this used to lock up my databases as well as it did not release the pool connections and did not re-use them. Kind Regards. Shaun. On 2019/12/11 20:38, Carolyn Brown

Re: [dspace-tech] Idle in transaction issue

2019-11-18 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Nada. I have hit the same issue with db.maxidle = -1. I set it to 10 and the problem is resolved. Kind Regards. Shaun. On 2019/11/17 10:43, Nada Aboueata wrote: Hi, We have been experiencing recently the issue of filling all the database connections in the pool, by “idle in

Re: [dspace-tech] Dspace Harvest Error

2019-11-07 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Ashlin What version of DSpace are you using? Your question brings to mind a similar problem that I had long ago, wherein I had to change DateUtils.java. This is what i did if it helps: vi ./dspace-oai/src/main/java/org/dspace/xoai/util/DateUtils.java  34   //Changed by Shaun:

[dspace-tech] Registration token

2019-11-05 Thread Shaun donovan
Morning all. Can anyone tell me for what period of time the token that gets sent for a registration is valid please? And is it adjustable? Thanks you. Shaun. -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct:

Re: [dspace-tech] Handle not Found

2019-10-29 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Carolyn. A quick test against your server on both TCP and UDP port 2641 (used for handle resolution) gives me connection refused: [shaund@roller ~]$ ncat dspace.muhlenberg.edu 2641 Ncat: Connection refused. [shaund@roller ~]$ ncat -u dspace.muhlenberg.edu 2641 dsdfsdf Ncat: Connection

Re: [dspace-tech] Change the default tomcat port 8080 to 80

2019-08-19 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Thiago. Change tomcat's server.xml to use port 80 instead of port 8080. Remove the 8080 in you local.cfg (or dspace.cfg). Grep through your dspace/config directory for 8080 and change them all to 80 (or remove them). Remember to make sure that these changes are also made in your source

Re: [dspace-tech] Log explanation

2019-07-30 Thread Shaun donovan
space-tech@googlegroups.com on behalf of Shaun donovan *Sent:* Monday, July 29, 2019 1:56 AM *To:* DSpace Technical Support *Subject:* [dspace-tech] Log explanation Hi All. I am receiving a lot of the following lines in my dspace.log files: 2019-07-29 08:41:52,222 WARN org.dspace.content.packager.Pa

[dspace-tech] Log explanation

2019-07-29 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi All. I am receiving a lot of the following lines in my dspace.log files: 2019-07-29 08:41:52,222 WARN org.dspace.content.packager.PackageUtils @ DSpace Object (ID='59', type ='COLLECTION') no longer exists -- translating COLLECTION_59_DEFAULT_READ to

Re: [dspace-tech] Error while running "filter-media" command

2019-07-03 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Office Thing. This sounds like it could be a rights problem. Have you checked that the files exist? Check the rights on them and make sure that the owner and group are the same as the user that you run DSpace as. You also need to run the command line commands as that same user (including

Re: [dspace-tech] Options for rebuilding indexes

2019-07-03 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Deborah. Just a thought and a common problem that I have seen that causes index-discovery to take a long time, is that for the command line, one does not assign enough resource to the JVM. By increasing the amount of memory assigned to the JVM, you could speed up the indexing. Looking at

Re: [dspace-tech] Re: Submission page error

2019-05-28 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Suman. You need to add the keys (like xmlui.Submission.Submissions.completed.column1) to the messages.xml file. See https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Localization+L10n Kind Regards. Shaun. On 2019/05/28 08:39, suman gupta wrote: kindly reply asap. On Tue, May 28, 2019 at

Re: [dspace-tech] Re: Dspace limitations and low performance, or just wrong implementation?

2019-05-21 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Andreea. When tracking slow performance, you need to try to discover (on the machine level) what is causing the problem. A tool that I find very useful for this is atop. Running this gives a very good overview of what is happening on your machine. The main things to look for is high

Re: [dspace-tech] access to /feedback

2019-03-05 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Jose. You're assumption is 100% correct. You should set this to your server's hostname. Kind Regards. Shaun. On 2019/03/04 23:23, Jose Blanco wrote: It seems like you can get to the /feedback page without any problems as long as you are on the dspace host, but if you try to access this

Re: [dspace-tech] Re: Hiding communities/collections from unauthenticated users.

2019-02-15 Thread Shaun donovan
wrote: Hello Shaun, it is possible for you to share a code template here or in a public git repository? Many thanks and kind regards, Paul Münch Am 12.02.19 um 12:19 schrieb Shaun donovan: Hi Diego. I have done this with JQuery. It is a simple solution and it works. Let me know if you wo

Re: [dspace-tech] Re: Hiding communities/collections from unauthenticated users.

2019-02-12 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Diego. I have done this with JQuery. It is a simple solution and it works. Let me know if you would like to try it and I will send you the code. Kind Regards. Shaun. On 2019/02/12 09:00, Antti Laurila wrote: Hi! I'll respond on behalf Ilja, we were working on the same project. And the

Re: [dspace-tech] JSPUI Disable user registration

2019-01-22 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Andrea. If you are using the standard password authentication, you can configure authentication.password.domain.valid in dspace.cfg (or local.cfg for DSpace 6.x) and set it to a domain that cannot be used. Kind Regards. Shaun. On 2019/01/21 18:09, andreamancino1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [dspace-tech] update discovery for one item

2018-12-05 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Jose. This is supposed to work, but I have not tried it myself yet. The following command will clear the discovery index of a specific collection (use the collection id, not the handle). curl "http://localhost:8080/solr/search/update?stream.body=location.coll:1136"; Once the collection's

Re: [dspace-tech] Error sending emails through O365 / DSpace v5.5

2018-11-14 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Evelthon. You certainly can. Just set your the SMTP settings in you dspace.cfg file (better in local.cfg if you are on version 6.x). These look like this: # SMTP mail server (allows DSpace to send email notifications) mail.server = smtp.example.com # SMTP mail server authentication

[dspace-tech] ADFS SAML auth plugin

2018-10-23 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi all. We have been trying to develop this authentication pluging using spring-security-saml but have not yet been successful. We have managed to integrate the library into DSpace 6.3, but have not yet been able to get the module to use it (specifically for XMLUI). I would like to know if

Re: [dspace-tech] Re: Authentication Plugin

2018-10-09 Thread Shaun donovan
, Mark H. Wood wrote: On Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 5:19:55 AM UTC-4, Shaun Donovan wrote: I think I have the flow right, but it seems that it is the implementation that is foiling me. Firstly, I forgot to mention that is authenticating against ADFS, and looking at the Shibboleth

Re: [dspace-tech] Re: Authentication Plugin

2018-10-09 Thread Shaun donovan
isplay/DSDOC5x/Authentication+Plugins#AuthenticationPlugins-ShibbolethAuthentication Good luck, Tim On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 9:31 AM Mark H. Wood <mailto:mwoodiu...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 4:29:42 AM UTC-4, Shaun Donovan wrote: I am str

[dspace-tech] Authentication Plugin

2018-10-04 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi All. I am struggling to write a SAML authentication plugin. I have tried to make sense of the documentation regarding this, but cannot get it to work. Basically, I write an implementation of AuthenticationMethod, and configure DSpace to use it. So far so good, I can see that my code is

Re: [dspace-tech] how to make dspace run on port 80 rather than 8080

2018-08-30 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Harry. Last time I ran it on Windows was a long time ago, but the process must still be the same. In the directory where Tomcat is installed (depends on how you installed it), there will be a conf folder, and inside that folder will be a server.xml file. If you edit this file and find the

Re: [dspace-tech]

2018-08-23 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Birol. Did you enable the pgcrypto extension on the dspace database, as in: |# Login to the database as a superuser, and enable the pgcrypto extension on ||this| |database| |psql --username=postgres dspace -c ||"CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto;" | |Kind Regards.| |Shaun| || On 23/08/2018

[dspace-tech] ORCID Confidence

2018-08-22 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi all. I have noticed that when an author is added using the ORCID lookup during the submission process (and choosing an Orcid author), a confidence is attributed to that metadata entry (600), but if one edits the metadata after submission and adds an author (also using the ORCID lookup),

Re: [dspace-tech] Orcid v2

2018-08-16 Thread Shaun donovan
2018 at 6:28 AM Shaun donovan <mailto:sha...@teqcle.co.za>> wrote: Hi All. I have searched for a solution to the Orcid v2 problem, but have not found one. This thread https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/dspace-tickets/NUKWQL6gV98 suggests that in version

[dspace-tech] Orcid v2

2018-08-16 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi All. I have searched for a solution to the Orcid v2 problem, but have not found one. This thread https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/dspace-tickets/NUKWQL6gV98 suggests that in version 6.3 and version 5.9, one should be able to use Orcid functionality, but only if one uses the

Re: [dspace-tech] DSpace connection to Google

2017-10-11 Thread Shaun donovan
/DSpace/blob/dspace-5.8/dspace-jspui/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/applicationContext.xml#L38 Then build and deploy as for any other customization. Hope this helps Claudia Jürgen Am 10.10.2017 um 13:25 schrieb Shaun donovan: Hi all. I am trying to implement DSpace 5.8 behind a very

[dspace-tech] DSpace connection to Google

2017-10-10 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi all. I am trying to implement DSpace 5.8 behind a very restrictive firewall / proxy. As such, I have switched off as many outgoing connections as I can think of (like google annalytics). But I find that whenever I try to download a bitstream, an https connection is made to a google server.

[dspace-tech] Solr export an import inconsistencies

2017-04-26 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi all. I have started playing with the solr import and export scripts on DSpace 5.6, and have found the following: Running "dspace solr-export-statistics -i authority -d /solr-backups/ -l'd' " will back up the authority core as well as the statistics core. This is unexpected behavior.

[dspace-tech] Solr on HTTPS

2017-03-23 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi All. I have configured DSpace (5.6 with xmlui Mirage 1) to run on https, and forced a re-direct from http to https in tomcat/conf/web.xml. The problem with this is the solr server which is accessed on localhost, and as such gets re-directed to https on localhost, but then the certificate

Re: [dspace-tech] Re: Change color from Green to Blue : Jspui interface see image

2017-03-03 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Letwale. I think what you are trying to do here is change the background colour of a class. I assume that you mean the heading bar that has "WIReDSpace Development" written in it. If that is the case, you need to change your: .btn-success { background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom,

Re: [dspace-tech] Re: Dspace Handle Server error

2017-02-28 Thread Shaun donovan
Sorry, pressed send by mistake :-) You can do the same test for TCP using: nc -t uir.unisa.ac.za 2641 and you can also test for port 8000 (TCP only) nc -t uir.unisa.ac.za 8000. You must run these commands from outside of your network. If you give me your URL, I will run them for you. Now

Re: [dspace-tech] Re: Dspace Handle Server error

2017-02-28 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi Ahmet. There are a few things to consider. Firstly, when you create the sitebundle.zip file, you must do it using the public IP address, as this is what CNRI use in their configuration. Then, because you are using a private IP address behind a firewall, you must go and change the IP

Re: [dspace-tech] multiple instances on one server

2017-01-06 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi all. Just an observation. Will following the instructions provided not cause problems on the solr server which listens by default on localhost? On 06/01/2017 10:34, helix84 wrote: See https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/MultipleDspaceOneServer Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory

[dspace-tech] XSL file for discovery search output

2016-04-14 Thread Shaun donovan
Hi all. I am trying to find the XSL file that defines the results of a discovery search in Mirage 1. Logically, this would be "xmlui/themes/Mirage/lib/xsl/aspect/artifactbrowser/item-list.xsl" but while this controls all of the normal item listing, it has no effect on the result of a search.