Getting started

If you have the Java 1.6.0 SDK (or above) you can build and run a demo server with the following commands:

 git clone git://github.com/hudmol/archivesspace.git

 cd archivesspace

 build/run dist

 java -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xmx256m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -jar archivesspace.jar

This will start the ArchivesSpace application running on:

http://localhost:8080/

and the backend web service running on:

http://localhost:8089/

If you'd like to use different ports, you can run:

java -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xmx256m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -jar archivesspace.jar [frontend port] [backend port]

To set up the application, browse to http://localhost:8080/ and log in using the adminstrator account:

Username: admin
Password: admin

Once logged in, you can create a new repository by selecting "Create a repository" from the drop-down menu at the top right hand side of the screen. Once you have created a repository, you can log out and register new user accounts from the link in the log-in form.

Note: If you have already run the service in demo mode, you may need to remove the existing demo database in order to avoid a 'java.sql.SQLException: Failed to create database' error:

	build/run db:nuke

Running ArchivesSpace with a custom configuration file

ArchivesSpace loads its configuration from a config.rb file, and will look for this file in several locations:

If you're running the archivesspace.jar as above, it will attempt to load the configuration from the current user's home directory: $HOME/.aspace_config.rb
If you're running ArchivesSpace under Tomcat, it will attempt to load $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/config.rb
If you're running in development mode, it will attempt to load /path/to/archivesspace/config/config.rb

To explicitly specify the location of your configuration file, you can run the application with the 'aspace.config' system property set. For example:

 java -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xmx256m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Daspace.config=/path/to/my/config.rb -jar archivesspace.jar

You can also override individual configuration options by setting the corresponding system property. The command line:

 java -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xmx256m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Daspace.config.data_directory=/path/to/my/data -jar archivesspace.jar

is equivalent to adding a config.rb entry like:

 AppConfig[:data_directory] = "/path/to/my/data"

Configuring LDAP authentication

ArchivesSpace can be configured to authenticate against one or more LDAP directories by specifying them in the application's configuration file. When a user logs in, each authentication source is tried in order until one matches or all sources are exhausted.

Here's a minimal example of LDAP authentication:

 AppConfig[:authentication_sources] = [{
                                         :model => 'LDAPAuth',
                                         :hostname => 'ldap.example.com',
                                         :port => 389,
                                         :base_dn => 'ou=people,dc=example,dc=com',
                                         :username_attribute => 'uid',
                                         :attribute_map => {:cn => :name},
 }]

With this configuration, ArchivesSpace performs authentication by connecting to ldap://ldap.example.com:389/, binding anonymously, searching the ou=people,dc=example,dc=com tree for uid = <username>. If the user is found, ArchivesSpace authenticates them by binding using the password specified. Finally, the :attribute_map entry specifies how LDAP attributes should be mapped to ArchivesSpace user attributes (mapping LDAP's cn to ArchivesSpace's name in the above example).

Many LDAP directories don't support anonymous binding. To integrate with such a directory, you will need to specify the username and password of a user with permission to connect to the directory and search for other users. Modifying the previous example for this case looks like this:

 AppConfig[:authentication_sources] = [{
                                         :model => 'LDAPAuth',
                                         :hostname => 'ldap.example.com',
                                         :port => 389,
                                         :base_dn => 'ou=people,dc=example,dc=com',
                                         :username_attribute => 'uid',
                                         :attribute_map => {:cn => :name}
                                         :bind_dn => 'uid=archivesspace_auth,ou=system,dc=example,dc=com',
                                         :bind_password => 'secretsquirrel',
 }]

Finally, some LDAP directories enforce the use of SSL encryption. To configure ArchivesSpace to connect via LDAPS, change the port as appropriate and specify the encryption option:

 AppConfig[:authentication_sources] = [{
                                         :model => 'LDAPAuth',
                                         :hostname => 'ldap.example.com',
                                         :port => 636,
                                         :base_dn => 'ou=people,dc=example,dc=com',
                                         :username_attribute => 'uid',
                                         :attribute_map => {:cn => :name}
                                         :bind_dn => 'uid=archivesspace_auth,ou=system,dc=example,dc=com',
                                         :bind_password => 'secretsquirrel',
                                         :encryption => :simple_tls,
 }]

Further documentation

Latest documentation is published at http://hudmol.github.com/archivesspace/

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Getting started

Running ArchivesSpace with a custom configuration file

Configuring LDAP authentication

Further documentation

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