WebVoyage Classic to Tomcat Redirector

Tags: basic , webvoyage , tomcat , classic , url , redirection
Last Updated: Aug 23, 2010 16:32

• Description

  A replacement for Pwebrecon.cgi that redirects the user to Tomcat WebVoyáge and rewrites the parameters for the Tomcat version (as far as possible). This is useful e.g. if you have a lot of canned searches.

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• Author: Ere Maijala
• Additional author(s):
• Institution: None
• Year: 2010

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• License: MPL 1.1 / GPL 2.0
• Short description: Use, modification and distribution of the code are permitted provided the copyright notice, list of conditions and disclaimer appear in all related material.
• Link to terms: MPL 1.1, GPL 2.0

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• Skill required for using this code: basic

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State

In Development

Programming language

Perl

Software requirements

Voyager

Download

Version 1.0

Changes

Version 1.0 28 Aug 2010

• Initial release

Release Notes

The initial version is based on the URL translation php script by E. Paige Weston
(see http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/Voyager/Translating+WebVoyage+Classic+URLs+to+tomcat+URLs).

Installation instructions

1. Make a backup copy of your original Pwebrecon.cgi in directory xxxdb/webvoyage/cgi-bin
2. Copy the attached version over the old one
3. Verify that it works, review the settings in Pwebrecon.cgi if necessary

   Setting	Description
   baseurl	The base url for Tomcat, e.g. 'http://somewhere.com/vwebv'. This can be left as is if Tomcat is on the same server.
   staffView	The view number representing MARC view in Classic WebVoyáge. The script uses this to determine whether the staff view should be shown in Tomcat version.

TO DO list

• Verify that as many as possible of all canned searches work properly.

Known issues

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