Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour

[Greenstone D. L. T. <gre...@wa...>]

Hi Amadou,
Thanks for your various emails. Did you try all the things I mentioned in my previous email?

It is fine to install greenstone in C:\BNGS312,  And it is also fine to copy in collections from previous greenstone installations.

But GLI may be confused about which greenstone collect folder it is working with.
When you start up GLI do you get a warning about non-standard collect home? - This means GLI is using the wrong collect folder, its using one set up for a previous greenstone. (Note I'll be working on fixing this for the next release)
Did you check the file->preferences->connection settings? Is the collect folder specified the one in BNGS312? If not, change it to the correct one. C:\BNG312\web\sites\localsite\collect

If that doesn't fix the problem, then next:
Find the C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI folder. I think different versions of windows sometimes use a different path. eg it could be AppData instead of Application Data.  Note, this is NOT where you install greenstone, but instead where GLI stores some config files for when its running.
There should be a gonfi3.xml in there. Shut down GLI, then delete the config3.xml file.

Restart GLI - do you see your collection? does it have the newly added documents in it? If not, re-add them, rebuild - does it work this time?

You can also check the collection folder on the file system - does the import folder contain the new documents you added using GLI?

If, after you have tried all the above, you are still having trouble, then do the following:
Please put GLI into expert mode, rebuild the collection, and send me the log. The log you sent was using librarian mode, so doesn't have any useful information in it.

Regards,
Katherine




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From: Amadou K. Tall <tal...@gm...>
Sent: Tuesday, 5 May 2026 11:06 pm
To: Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...>
Subject: Re: [Greenstone-users] Retour

Hello Katherine,
Based on your various responses, I'm wondering if I've installed it correctly. I've attached a screenshot of my hard drive.

I installed GS312 in several folders (for testing purposes).

The current folder is C:\BNGS312, which already contains GS3.09 collections.

I installed GS312 there.
The existing collections are displayed.

However, GLI isn't working; that is, newly added documents don't appear after the build process is complete.

The error message I sent you is displayed.


Is it a problem if I install GS312 in a different folder than this one (C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI)?

Please excuse me for sending the screenshot; I think it might be helpful.


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Le mar. 5 mai 2026 à 00:19, Greenstone Digital Library Team <gre...@wa...<mailto:gre...@wa...>> a écrit :
Hi,
expert mode won't fix the problem, but I was hoping you might get more messaging around what went wrong.

If you restart your greenstone server, does the collection appear? This might happen if the collection has built ok, but GLI had trouble activating it in the library.

Check the file->preferences->connection settings - do they look valid. eg is the right port number set, the right site and servlet name. is the web folder specified the right one.
If you used to build with an older version of greenstone, and now you have installed a new version, GLI might still be using some old settings. Close GLI, Look for a GLI folder eg Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Greenstone\GLI
and delete config3.xml.
then restart GLI. does this help your build to work?

When you built in expert mode, at the end of the output were there any error messages? You can try setting verbosity to 5 in build options and rebuild.

If you like, you could change GLI to english, set the verbosity to 5, rebuild and then send me the build log. you can find the build log in greenstone3/web/sites/<sitename eg localsite>/collect/eau01/log - choose the one with the latest timestamp.
(you could delete all the logs, then rebuild. then you can be sure you have found the latest log file)

Alternatively, you could build on the command line
cd to your greenstone3 directory.
gs3-setup
full-rebuild.pl<http://full-rebuild.pl> -site <sitename> eau01 > build.out 2>&1

then send me build.out

Regards,
Katherine
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From: Amadou K. Tall <tal...@gm...<mailto:tal...@gm...>>
Sent: Monday, 4 May 2026 11:09 pm
To: gre...@li...<mailto:gre...@li...> <gre...@li...<mailto:gre...@li...>>
Subject: [Greenstone-users] Retour

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Hi Khaterine, after several attempts in "expert" mode, the problem persists. I'm not comfortable with Perl; I feel more at ease with other languages.