Deploying and Managing Multiple Islandora Sites

Deploying and Managing Multiple Islandora Sites

Favenzio Calvo (FSU) and Gary Phillips (FLVC)

Florida Virtual Campus

! Established by the Florida legislature to promote collaboration and provide a variety of tools and services to the state’s university and college students and staff.

! FLVC Islandora Implementation: Expected to provide digital repository services to 12 universities and 28 colleges.

! Guiding principle: Finding a balance between ease of maintenance and institutional flexibility.

Fedora Commons Repository

! One common root for Islandora implementation

! One root collection per site

Solr Indexing and Search

! Single Solr Index

! Namespace based site search (Not what we did)

! Solr Index settings -‐> Solr base filter

! Every institution shares same index specifications

! Additional site created to share across all sites

Database Setup (Drupal)

! Single database shared by all sites

! Table Prefix (MySQL) vs Schemas (PostgreSQL)

! Advantages:

-‐  Lower Administration Overhead

-‐  Shared User Tables (dev and test)

Drupal Multisite

! Share single Drupal code base (including core code, contributed modules and themes) among multiple sites.

! Advantages:


-‐  Shared functionality across multiple sites

-‐  Training, Documentation and Troubleshooting

Drupal Roles and Permissions

!  By policy every site has the same roles defined.

!  Each site administrator creates users and associates them with the established roles.

!  Advantages:

-‐  Lower Central Administration Overhead

-‐  Shared roles across multiple sites

-‐  Training, Documentation and Troubleshooting

Islandora Metadata Forms

!  By default Islandora has a different form for every content model.

!  Created two forms: Full and Simple and associated them with every content model.

!  Content Model variations by template.

!  Advantages:

-‐  Lower Central Administration Overhead

-‐  Training, documentation and Troubleshooting

Drupal Custom Theme

! Based on AdaptiveTheme / Corolla

! Custom CSS per site

! Advantages:


-‐  Ability to override default Islandora functionality

New Site Deployment Process

1.  Create PostgreSQL schema (not required for MySQL -‐ instead use table prefix feature).

2.  Create DNS entries (i.e. fsu.digital.flvc.org).

3.  Create Apache Virtual Host -‐ DocumentRoot should be Drupal Core directory for all sites.

4.  Create site subdirectory under ‘sites’ folder.

5.  Configure Drupal Authentication for Fedora.

New Site Deployment Process

6.  Enable Drupal Modules.

7.  Create a root object for the site.

8.  Create roles and configure permissions.

9.  Configure Drupal/Islandora settings.

10.  Install and Associate Forms.

11.  Customize Display Blocks/Theme settings.

Questions or comments?

! Favenzio Calvo – [email protected]

! Gary Phillips – [email protected]

Deploying and Managing Multiple Islandora Sites

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