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Installation Of Omeka Classic 2.6.1v On Ubuntu 18.10

Omeka Classic is a web publishing platform for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.This video covers the tutorial on Installation of Omeka Classic 2.6.1v On Ubuntu 18.10

Features:

Serious web publishing

simple to use

Cost-effective design

Flexible and extensible

Requirements:

LAMP Stack

php 5.3.2 or greater versions

mysql 5.0 or greater

PHP Modules:

php-mysqli php-exif php-gd php-mbstring imagick

Download Link:

https://github.com/omeka/Omeka/releases/download/v2.6.1/omeka-2.6.1.zip

Configure MariaDb for Omeka classical cms using root password

root@linuxhelp:~# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 58
Server version: 10.1.29-MariaDB-6ubuntu2 Ubuntu 18.10

Copyright (c) 2000, 2017, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.


MariaDB [(none)]> create database omeka character set utf8mb4;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.06 sec)


MariaDB [(none)]> use omeka;
Database changed

MariaDB [omeka]> create user ouser@localhost identified by 'linuxc';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)


MariaDB [omeka]> grant all on omeka.* to ouser@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)


MariaDB [omeka]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)


MariaDB [omeka]> exit
Bye

Change the directory to Apache’s Document Root Directory

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /var/www

Create a directory for Omeka Classic CMS Under the Document root directory

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# mkdir omeka

Change the directory to Omeka to download the Omeka Classic CMS

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# cd omeka/

Download the Omeka CMS using wget

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka# wget https://github.com/omeka/Omeka/releases/download/v2.6.1/omeka-2.6.1.zip
--2019-05-02 23:52:51--  https://github.com/omeka/Omeka/releases/download/v2.6.1/omeka-2.6.1.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.113|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/1981382/5295d252-4e0b-11e8-9f6b-30c4f7f2c952?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20190503%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190503T065219Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=1f78d75a6956f761034def7050a772594fb120e0d2d3199c2b7073ccf01616b6&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Domeka-2.6.1.zip&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream [following]
--2019-05-02 23:52:52--  https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/1981382/5295d252-4e0b-11e8-9f6b-30c4f7f2c952?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20190503%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190503T065219Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=1f78d75a6956f761034def7050a772594fb120e0d2d3199c2b7073ccf01616b6&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Domeka-2.6.1.zip&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream
Resolving github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)... 52.216.164.3
Connecting to github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)|52.216.164.3|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 16400991 (16M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘omeka-2.6.1.zip’

omeka-2.6.1.zip               100%[==============================================>]  15.64M   819KB/s    in 28s     

2019-05-02 23:53:21 (578 KB/s) - ‘omeka-2.6.1.zip’ saved [16400991/16400991]

List the contents to check the downloaded file

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka# ll
total 16028
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 May  2 23:52 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root     4096 May  2 23:52 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16400991 May  2  2018 omeka-2.6.1.zip

Extract the downloaded file using unzip as follows

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka# unzip omeka-2.6.1.zip 
Archive:  omeka-2.6.1.zip
   creating: omeka-2.6.1/
   creating: omeka-2.6.1/admin/
   creating: omeka-2.6.1/admin/themes/
   creating: omeka-2.6.1/admin/themes/default/
   creating: omeka-2.6.1/admin/themes/default/appearance/
   creating: omeka-2.6.1/admin/themes/default/collections/
   creating: omeka-2.6.1/admin/themes/default/common/
   creating: omeka-2.6.1/admin/themes/default/css/
   creating: omeka-2.6.1/admin/themes/default/css/media/
   creating: omeka-2.6.1/admin/themes/default/element-sets/
   creating: omeka-2.6.1/admin/themes/default/elements/.
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.
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inflating: omeka-2.6.1/themes/seasons/javascripts/seasons.js  
  inflating: omeka-2.6.1/themes/seasons/javascripts/vendor/modernizr.js  
  inflating: omeka-2.6.1/themes/seasons/package.json  
  inflating: omeka-2.6.1/themes/seasons/simple-pages/page/show.php  
  inflating: omeka-2.6.1/themes/seasons/theme.ini  
  inflating: omeka-2.6.1/themes/seasons/theme.jpg

List the contents to check the extracted files

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka# ll
total 16032
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root     4096 May  2 23:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root     4096 May  2 23:52 ../
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root     4096 May  2  2018 omeka-2.6.1/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16400991 May  2  2018 omeka-2.6.1.zip

Rename the newly created directory to final

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka# mv omeka-2.6.1 final

Change the directory to final

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka# cd final/

Assign Ownership permissions to the final directory

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka/final# chown -R www-data. ./

Assign Writable permissions to the Final directory

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka/final# chmod -R 775 ./

List the contents in the final directory

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka/final# ll
total 96
drwxrwxr-x  8 www-data www-data  4096 May  2  2018 ./
drwxr-xr-x  3 root     root      4096 May  2 23:53 ../
drwxrwxr-x  3 www-data www-data  4096 May  2  2018 admin/
drwxrwxr-x 13 www-data www-data  4096 May  2  2018 application/
-rwxrwxr-x  1 www-data www-data  5592 May  2  2018 bootstrap.php*
-rwxrwxr-x  1 www-data www-data   532 May  2  2018 db.ini*
drwxrwxr-x  7 www-data www-data  4096 May  2  2018 files/
-rwxrwxr-x  1 www-data www-data  1702 May  2  2018 .htaccess*
-rwxrwxr-x  1 www-data www-data   597 May  2  2018 index.php*
drwxrwxr-x  6 www-data www-data  4096 May  2  2018 install/
-rwxrwxr-x  1 www-data www-data 35147 May  2  2018 license.txt*
drwxrwxr-x  5 www-data www-data  4096 May  2  2018 plugins/
-rwxrwxr-x  1 www-data www-data  1225 May  2  2018 README.md*
-rwxrwxr-x  1 www-data www-data    32 May  2  2018 robots.txt*
drwxrwxr-x  5 www-data www-data  4096 May  2  2018 themes/

Configure the database file as follows:

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka/final# vim db.ini
host     = "localhost"
username = "ouser"
password = "linuxc"
dbname   = "omeka"

Create a customised configuration file for Omeka CLassic CMS

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka/final# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/o.conf
<virtualhost *:80>
servername www.linuxhelp1.com
documentroot /var/www/omeka/final/

<directory /var/www/omeka/final/>
allowoverride all
allow from all
</directory>
</virtualhost>

Disable the access for default sites

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka/final# a2dissite 000-default.conf 
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl reload apache2

Enable the omeka classic cms site

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka/final# a2ensite o.conf 
Enabling site o.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl reload apache2

Enable the rewrite module

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka/final# a2enmod rewrite 
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl restart apache2

Restart the service Of Apache

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/omeka/final# systemctl restart apache2

Open the Browser and enter the servername that had set inside the virtual hosting of Apache server for omeka classic CMS 2.6.1v snap1

Provide the site information details and click install snap2 snap3 snap3 snap5

After the completion of Omeka Classic CMS installation,click Admin DashBoard to login to the backend office snap6

Installation Of Omeka Classic 2.6.1v On Ubuntu 18.10 Snap7

Therefore,Installation of omeka CMS 2.6.1v On Ubuntu 18.10 comes to end. snap8

Thus concludes the Installation Of Omeka Classic 2.6.1v On Ubuntu 18.10.

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Frequently asked questions ( 5 )

Q

IS there any tagging functionality to items in Omeka classic CMS?

A

Yes, An item can have an infinite number of tags, which is possible in Omeka Classic CMS.

Q

Does Omeka CMS support Unicode?

A

Yes, Omeka Classic CMS supports unicode.

Q

What is the use of Unicode in Omeka Classic CMS?

A

Unicode allows users to build sites with non-roman characters, including scientific symbols that display properly in web browsers.

Q

What are the Data Migrations tools used in omeka Classical CMS?

A

OAI-PM-H harvester and CSV EAD and Zotero are the migration tools used in omeka classical cms.

Q

Can we modify the pre-packaged designed themes in Omeka Classical CMS?

A

yes, you can modify the pre-packaged designed themes in omeka Classical CMS.

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