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mutanthumb
mutanthumb

Reputation: 161

Is it possible to have mulitple front-ends for a single DSpace instance?

Is it possible to have multiple front-ends for a single instance of Dspace? For example, have an instance of Dspace but have 4 different front-ends (newsxmlui.xml) one for each campus pointing to it.

I am running DSpace 5.2 with Mirage 2 on CentOS 6.

This doesn’t seem possible with the current architecture, but I just wanted to check to see if I was missing something.

Thanks, susan

Upvotes: 0

Views: 184

Answers (1)

Jacob Brown
Jacob Brown

Reputation: 7561

As @terrywb notes, creating separate themes per community/collection might be sufficient for your needs.

Although I've never used it, I believe you can use themes.xmap and the xmlui.theme.allowoverrides config setting to mount specific themes at specific mount points (URL paths). See ThemeMatcher.java and themes.xmap for more information. You could place a block in themes.xmap like:

<map:match type="ThemeMatcher">
  <map:mount uri-prefix="dept1/" src="Dept1Theme"/>
  <map:mount uri-prefix="dept2/" src="Dept2Theme"/>
</map:match>

Upvotes: 2

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