This is an implementation of the OAI Static Repository Gateway Specification. Its OAI-PMH endpoints pass the data provider validation.

Known limitations

• The gateway validates repository XML against the relevant schema. However, this validation is limited to the parts covered by the Static-Repository and OAI-PMH schemata. The payload (essentially <metadata> elements and their contents) is not validated.

Installation

• checkout the repo to within apache's DocumentRoot
• if you are using Apache Alias directives to map the url to a filesystem path, older systems and some deployments on Windows might require additional configuration for the matching filesystem path:

  <Directory /path/to/app>
    ...
    RewriteOptions MergeBase
    RewriteBase /sub/url-path/to/app
  </Directory>
  

  See the apache documentation for details.
• copy .env.sample to .env and make changes within the file to reflect your deployment. These are just environment variables, you may also configure them with your web-server's environment, e.g. with Apache's SetEnv
• run composer install --no-dev
• run composer dump-autoload
• run the setup routine: php bin/setup.php to create the database structure

Depending on your environment, server performance and the size of your data sets, you might have to change some resource limits for php, e.g.

max_execution_time = 1800
max_input_time = 1800
memory_limit = 256M

and for mysql, e.g.

[mysqld]
max_allowed_packet = 64M

Updates

Make sure to run the migrations when updating the code so that changes to the database are propagated to your production system. This is done like so:

cd /path/to/app
php bin/update.php

Development

To get started developing, first install VirtualBox, Vagrant and git. Then make sure the guest additions plugin is installed by running

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

Now to generate the vagrant environment, simply run

vagrant up php5

or

vagrant up php7

depending on the environment you wish to develop on. This step will likely take several minutes. Essentially, a VirtualBox VM is created and configured to run the development environment.

With the VM up and running, the following command brings you to a terminal session within the VM

vagrant ssh

Within the VM, the current directory is mounted at /vagrant so you will probably want to

cd /vagrant

From there, install the dependencies including development and test:

composer install
composer dump-autoload

Then, create databases for the development and test environment as defined in .env.development and .env.test and/or modify those files accordingly.

To start the development server, run

bin/dev.sh

And navigate to http://localhost:3000 with your browser.

Tests

The test suits can be run with bin/test.sh. Make sure the test server and the data server are both running (bin/test-server.sh and bin/serve-test-data.sh).