[Dspace-general] Internal System Error by ingest a new item in demo collection

[Claudia Jürgen]

Hi Robin,

you need a valid email configuration. At various points registration, 
ingest etc. DSpace will send emails.

Check these settings in dspace.cfg:

##### Email settings ######

# SMTP mail server
mail.server=YourMailServer

# SMTP mail server authentication username and password (if required)
# mail.server.username = myusername
# mail.server.password = mypassword

# SMTP mail server alternate port (defaults to 25)
# mail.server.port = 25

# E-Mail-Adresse Eldorado, die fuer alles  ausser OAI benutzt wird
mail.general = valid email address
...


You can use the email server of the Fernuniversität Hagen providing your 
central user account, which any of the FU members (students/staff) got.
Seems as if for smtp they use the port 465, the instructions can be 
found at your site:
http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/zmi/service/infrastruktur/internetdienste/email/mailstore.shtml

As for the permissions, check step 5 of the installations:

5. Create the directory for the DSpace installation (i.e. [dspace]). As 
root (or a user with appropriate permissions),
run:
mkdir [dspace]
chown dspace [dspace]
(Assuming the dspace UNIX username.)

It is assumed that your servlet container runs as your dspace user.


Claudia Jürgen


Robin Wang schrieb:
> Hallo Claudia,
> 
> I need your help again. I know that i have asked the same question in
> the mailing of dspace before. At last time you suggested me, that i
> chould change the dspace.cfg for mail server under /dspace/config.
> 
> 1.   Because i have an other instance of dspace unter my ubuntu , so
> i writed the programm before with my dspace instance. But now my job
> is almost done, so i must switch the test instance to our dspace
> server at safran fernuni hagen. I changed the dspace.cfg just as you
> and my teacher suggested and restart the tomcat. But i got the error
> still.
> 
> 
> # SMTP mail server mail.server=localhost # From address for mail 
> mail.from.address = dspace-noreply at localhost # General site
> administration (Webmaster) e-mail mail.admin = dspace-help at localhost
> 
> We have no mail server under safran. fernuni-hagen.de. so i can just
> set the mail server as localhost. So i need to know , where can i
> watch the protocol and how can i fix it.
> 
> 2.  You also suggested me that i should check the permissions of the
> /dspace. The question is, what kind of the permission of dspace
> should been set, that i chould kill this error.
> 
> "As you get the error at an earlier stage, check your [dspace] dir
> permissions. The user, under which your servlet container runs, needs
> to write to the upload dirctory and assetstore during ingest."
> 
> I have installed the dspace following the same protocol of installing
> the dspace 1.5 under ubuntu. Why i have the internal error by
> ingesting the files in our safran server. but can ingest the file in
> my dspace without problem. I really really need the help. thank you
> and regards robin
> 
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