Try out Xerxes with XAMPP
With this little package you can try out Xerxes on your Windows machine with normal or even quite restricted user privilegies.
1. Download xampp.zip.
Unzip and move the catalog to yor root folder on your harddrive. The catalog has to be named xampp.
Make sure that there are no nested xampp catalogues. The path to xampp-control.exe should be C:\xampp\xampp-control.exe and nothing else.
2. Start XAMPP
Find xampp-control.exe and klick it.
On the XAMPP Control Panel Application, click the start buttons next to Apache and MySQL. If everything is ok, there should be a text that says Running on green background next to each of the buttons.
XAMPP will not work as desired if you already run a web server or a MySQL database. Shut down these services when playing with XAMPP!
3. Edit config.xml
Open C:\xampp\htdocs\xerxes\demo\config\config.xml with your text editor of choice. Notepad will do.
I edited this file in the package. If you find it cluttered you can replace it with the file attached to this article.
To try out the basics of Xerxes you only have to fill out the fields metalib_username, metalib_password, metalib_institute och ip_address.
metalib_username och metalib_password is a valid Metalib /M/-user. Try the credentials on Metalib before you fill in the fields.
ip_address is most likely the external address of your library. If you don't know, go to http://www.ip-adress.com/ and try with that address.
4.Polpulate Xerxes with categories and Databases
Double click the file populate_local_kb.bat in C:\xampp. Allow half a minute for the program to run. If there is just a lot of unreadble text that clutters the screen, then something is wrong in your configuration file.
5. Try it out
Open your web browser type in http://localhost/xerxes/demo/.
Search.
6. Configure, Customize put Xerxes into production...
This is just the quick version to get you started. There so much more to Xerxes...
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