Dear all developers,
Thanks for this seemingly neat solution, but so far I have only been able to look around as I am on an Windows XP environment.
What are the hurdles towards an XP installation of omeka?
Looking forward to your advice.
With regards
/Gobezu
Hi Gobezu,
If you are asking if it is possible to install Omeka and run it on your local PC with Windows XP, unfortunately the answer is no. You could try getting an account with Dreamhost: http://dreamhost.com/ or another service as noted by other Omeka users.
Once Omeka is installed and is running on a Linux system, the admin interface--where you add and edit items, build exhibits, et al--is accessible through any web browser on any operating system.
We plan to offer a hosted version of Omeka by 2009, if you can wait that long.
Below are the system requirements, just as a reminder.
* Linux operating system
* Apache HTTP server
o make sure mod_rewrite is enabled
* PHP scripting language
o 5.2.x or greater
* MySQL relational database management system
o 5.0 or greater
* ImageMagick image manipulation software
o installation is mandatory for resizing images in Omeka
Hello!
I was able to install Omeka on Windows XP using XAMPP.
However, I am having problems with the display on my browser, CSS and Javascript is not working. I believe that it is caused by the backslash \ used as directory separator on Windows. I used web developer firefox extension to view the source. Here is the portion I think which is causing the error:
<!-- Stylesheets -->
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="http://localhost/om\themes\default\css\screen.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="http://localhost/om\themes\default\css\print.css" />
<!-- JavaScripts -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost/om\shared\javascripts\prototype.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost/om\shared\javascripts\prototype-extensions.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="http://localhost/om\shared\javascripts\scriptaculous.js?load=effects,dragdrop" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost/om\shared\javascripts\search.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Here is the portion when I view the generated source:
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="http://localhost/om%5Cthemes%5Cdefault%5Ccss%5Cscreen.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="http://localhost/om%5Cthemes%5Cdefault%5Ccss%5Cprint.css"><!-- JavaScripts -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost/om%5Cshared%5Cjavascripts%5Cprototype.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost/om%5Cshared%5Cjavascripts%5Cprototype-extensions.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="http://localhost/om%5Cshared%5Cjavascripts%5Cscriptaculous.js?load=effects,dragdrop" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost/om%5Cshared%5Cjavascripts%5Csearch.js" charset="utf-8"></script><!-- Plugin Stuff --></head><body>
I am guessing that making the directory separator hardcoded as forward slash may fix this. Could this be edited or changed in the zipped file provided for download?
I am sorry for being hardheaded on installing Omeka on Windows, it is just that I thought I can give it a shot :-)
By the way, I have installed Omeka on Ubuntu 7.10 successfully, side by side with WordPress, and I am currently adding data so I don't have much to show yet. I will post the URL once it is respectable enough.
Thanks!
mon
You're right, it should use '/' instead of a hardcoded DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR for making URLs. My guess is that that is not the only thing that would be broken on Windows, but I'm not sure, since we haven't designed or tested it for Windows.
It sounds like you're serious about getting it to work on Windows, so my recommendation would be to check out a copy of Omeka through our version control system (SVN). If you install SVN on windows, you can check out Omeka with the following command:
svn co https://omeka.org/svn/branches/stable-0.9/
That is our most up-to-date development branch, and you can keep up with bug fixes by updating your copy every once in a while.
If you can hack it to get it to work on Windows, you can then leverage SVN to send us your changes, and we might be able to incorporate that into a future release.
Thanks for all your help!
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