Book Reader Installation

The Book Reader is a web application running on tomcat installed via apt-get install tomcat6. It's purpose is to extend the Internet Archive BookReader to and call the Book Toolkbox application.

common tasks

start: bhladmin@bhl-test2:/$ sudo etc/init.d/tomcat6 start
stop: bhladmin@bhl-test2:/$ sudo etc/init.d/tomcat6 stop
status: bhladmin@bhl-test2:/$ sudo etc/init.d/tomcat6 status

how to test if it's working

bookreader: http://bhl-test.nhm.ac.uk/bookreader (A blank page)
bookreader: http://bhl-test.nhm.ac.uk/bookreader?pid=<book PID>

location

Github: https://github.com/bhle/bhle/tree/master/portal/bookreader
web-application: /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/bookreader

dependencies

Book Toolbox

modifying config files

login information if necessary

proxy information

bhladmin@bhl-proxy1:~$ sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/bhl-test
- ProxyPass /bookreader http://bhl-test2.nhm.ac.uk:8090/bookreader
  ProxyPassReverse /bookreader http://bhl-test2.nhm.ac.uk:8090/bookreader

Installation

Book Reader

download source from https://github.com/bhle/bhle/tree/master/access/bookreader
and place in /opt/access/bookreader/
cd /opt/access/bookreader
mvn package
deploy target/bookreader.war into /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps

If Fedora is not in localhost:8080/fedora, please modify String fedoraPath in index.jsp