Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace for online archive system with some management requirements

2013-12-03 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:01:32PM +0800, lei chen wrote: I am new to Dspace and have very limited IT knowledge. Recently my institute decided to develop a online archive to store papers/reports produced, Dspace was suggested. Beside the uploading, searching and downloading function, we have

[Dspace-tech] dspace-tech modification to Messages.properties not visible

2013-12-03 Thread Shazia Sathar
Hello All, I am trying to update text on JSP page by modifying Messages.properties and have tried all methods posted in documentation and FAQs and still no luck. In the Bugs fixed section for release 3.2 I see DSpace's .gitignore wrongly ignores all *.properties

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace for online archive system with some management requirements

2013-12-03 Thread Keir Vaughan-Taylor
Can't resist commenting. The greatest criticism I have of DSpace is the difficulty of installation and upgrade. For the IT team is is big responsibility as each DSpace instance acrues importance. DSpace is a big product. To get going isn't too bad but there is a lot to learn and users always

[Dspace-tech] Block Excessive Downloads ?

2013-12-03 Thread dtpalmer
Our instance of DSpace occasionally gets hammered with excessive requests for downloads of the same item, in a very short time, say 8,000 in one hour. No idea why. Perhaps the bogey was testing his software against our server? Is there any way to detect, and set a limit of x downloads in y

Re: [Dspace-tech] Block Excessive Downloads ?

2013-12-03 Thread Keir Vaughan-Taylor
This is a job for IPtables or whatever the Windows equivalent is. Look up ssh throttling and find some code but change the ssh port to the http port. One example here http://blog.poucet.org/2009/11/setting-up-iptables-to-throttle-incoming-ssh/ I have not used that example code myself but it

Re: [Dspace-tech] configuring Home page title for Mirage template...

2013-12-03 Thread Hilton Gibson
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Re: [Dspace-tech] Block Excessive Downloads ?

2013-12-03 Thread Hilton Gibson
Hi David This depends on how you setup DSpace. I see you use Windows, therefore a lot of Unix based solutions fly out of the window, excuse the pun. If you use Tomcat with Apache, then try finding out how to limit downloads per item of time with Apache2. I am sure there is an Apache2 setting for