[Dspace-general] Dspace general installation problems

[Tim Donohue]

Amjad,

First off, I'm copying this answer over to the 'dspace-tech' mailing 
list.  The 'dspace-tech' list is the place where we recommend that you 
post problems with installations or just general questions about 
configurations, settings, etc.  More information about the 'dspace-tech' 
list is available here:

http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpaceResources#English_Lists

On 1/19/2010 8:38 AM, AMJAD USMAN wrote:
> I am a new user to Dspace and facing the following problems.
>
> Problem 1.
> (In JSPUI case)
> It properly creates Communities, collections, E-users, Groups, etc.
> but when i try to submit any document like article to the collection,
> then it gives system internal error after "document uploading" step.
>
> Problem 2.
> (In XMLUI case)
> It gives error when i press "complete submission" button during item
> submission in xml user interface.

In your first two problems, it'd be useful for us if you could see the 
error messages from your log files, when you encounter these problems in 
the JSPUI and XMLUI.  In particular, you'd want to look for errors in 
these logs:

[dspace]/log/dspace.log
[tomcat]/logs/*

More information is available on our Wiki page on How to Troubleshoot an 
Error with DSpace:
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Troubleshoot_an_error

>
> Problem 3.
> after properly installing dspace, when i make any changes in the
> config.xml file of the dspace, then they donot apply to dspace instance;
> means those changes donot appear in the dspace user interface.

I'm assuming by 'config.xml' you probably mean the main 'dspace.cfg' 
file.  You should make sure you are editing the dspace.cfg file within 
the Installation directory [dspace]/config/, instead of the Source code 
directory [dspace-src]/dspace/config/

You also will need to restart Tomcat for your dspace.cfg changes to be 
seen within the XMLUI or JSPUI.

There's more information around modifying your dspace.cfg settings in 
the latest DSpace Documentation:

http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/trunk/dspace/docs/html/index.html

You'll also want to specifically look more closely at the 
"Configuration" chapter:
http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/trunk/dspace/docs/html/ch05.html

>
>
> Problem 4.
> tell me something about SRB File Storage in config.xml file, means how
> to set these parameters.
> because all the code in this section is commented.

More information about the SRB File Storage is also in the 
"Configuration" chapter of the Documentation.   It also links off to the 
main SRB (Storage Resource Brokerage) website for more information about 
SRB in general.  Hopefully that will give you some more information on 
this functionality:

http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/trunk/dspace/docs/html/ch05.html

I hope this information is helpful.  Again, send us (on the dspace-tech 
mailing list) some more details on the errors you are seeing in your log 
files.  We'll try to help you figure out what could be going wrong in 
your DSpace installation.

Good luck,

- Tim