EPrints 3.4.4 Docker Image

A modified version of the original by Justin Bradley, with the following improvements:

• No unmet dependencies
• Updated to use AlmaLinux base image
• Uses EPrints v3.4.4 RPM
• Includes fix for Apache segmentation issue caused by XML::LibXSLT
• Includes a directory for ease of moving files to and from the container (/var/shared directory within the container)

Built-in User Details

User: admin

Password: admin123

Building the Repository

1. Copy the contents of this repository into /home/eprints
2. cd into /home/eprints
3. Build the Docker container by typing docker compose up --build -d in a terminal. This will take a little time to complete, as Docker is creating the volumes and acquiring everything EPrints needs to run.

Completing setup

In order to ensure that EPrints is set up correctly:

1. Ensure that the terminal prompt is in the eprints folder
2. Open the Docker container in the terminal: docker compose exec eprintshttpd bash​​​​​​​
3. Run chown -R -c eprints.eprints /usr/share/eprints/ to ensure that the eprints user owns all files in the eprints directory
4. Switch to the eprints user with: su eprints
5. Run /usr/share/eprints/bin/generate_static pub to ensure that there are no broken links on the homepage
6. Run /usr/share/eprints/bin/epadmin update pub to ensure the admin user is added to the database
7. Run /usr/share/eprints/bin/epadmin reload pub to reload the archive's configuration
8. Type exit to switch back to the root user
9. Run httpd -k restart to restart the web server

Starting the session

1. Check that Docker is running okay with service docker status
2. Navigate to the folder that eprints is installed in (home/eprints)
3. Run eprints with docker compose up -d
4. Open a browser window and go to http://localhost to see the front-end interface​​​​​​​

Ending the session

1. Close connection to the Docker container by typing exit twice (first is to logout the eprints user, second is to logout the root user)
2. Quit the EPrints app with docker compose down