View source for EPrints 3.5.0 Beta 1

This page provides information about the first beta release for EPrints 3.5.0 on Wednesday 18th June 2025.  There will be further beta releases and one or more release candidates before the first official release of EPrints 3.5.0.

== Installation Instructions ==
=== RHEL / Rocky Linux 9 ===
1. Install MariaDB (you may choose to install MySQL instead).
 yum install mariadb-server mariadb
2. Enable MariaDB
 systemctl enable --now mariadb
3. Install prerequite packages and tools. (Some extra packages may be required to build CPAN packages later on). 
 yum install epel-release git libxml2 libxslt httpd mod_perl perl-DBD-MySQL tetex-latex wget gzip tar ImageMagick elinks poppler-utils chkconfig unzip cpan python3-html2text expat-devel libxslt-devel xapian-core xapian-core-devel
4. Add the eprints user
 adduser eprints
5. Add the eprints user to the apache group and vice-versa
 usermod -a -G eprints apache
 usermod -a -G apache eprints
6. For now disable SELinux.  (If you want to make this permanent you will need to configure /etc/selinux/config and change SELINUX=permissive).  An SELinux policy for EPrints  will be provided with the full release of EPrints 3.5.0.
 setenforce 0
7. Make a directory to checkout EPrints and set appropriate permissions:
 mkdir /opt/eprints3
 chown eprints:eprints /opt/eprints3
 chmod 2775 /opt/eprints3
8. Become the eprints user and clone EPrints 3.5 recursively and checkout v3.5.0-beta-1
 su eprints
 cd /opt/eprints3
 git clone https://github.com/eprints/eprints3.5.git --recurse-submodules .
 git checkout v3.5.0-beta-1
9. Become the root user again and install CPAN modules.  (Answer 'y' if prompted whilst running cpan_modules.pl).
 su root
 /opt/eprints3/cpan_modules.pl
10. Be sure to either set a password for the MariaDB root user or create another user (e.g. eprints) that can create new databases and add new MariaDB users
 mysql
 CREATE USER 'eprints'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED by '<CHANGE_ME>';
 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'eprints'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
11. Become the eprints user again and create your new EPrints archive using the 'pub' flavour and then follow the interactive instructions.
 su eprints
 /opt/eprints3/bin/epadmin create
12. Become the root user and create an Apache configuration file at /etc/httpd/conf.d/eprints.conf with the following line:
 Include /opt/eprints3/cfg/apache.conf
13. For now, disable /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf
 mv /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf.disabled
14. Test and start Apache.
 apachectl configtest
 systemctl enable --now httpd

=== Deploying HTTPS using Let's Encrypt ===
'''TO BE WRITTEN'''