Install Omeka Classic as Subdirectory

Omeka Classic Installing and Upgrading
1

Hello,

Would it be possible to install omeka classic or ~multiple omeka classics~ on different subdirectories?
IE
ournicewebsite.edu/omeka1
ournicewebsite.edu/omeka2
ournicewebsite.edu/collectionbuilder

I have been trying to do this with apache but cannot get it to work with the redirects.

Thank you,

Jonathan

2

I was able to figure it out

by updating the .htaccess file rewrite settings
RewriteBase /omeka1

AND

having the Alias in the virtualhost file

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName ournicewebsite.edu
	DocumentRoot /var/www/omeka1

	<Directory "/var/www/omeka1" >
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride All 
		Require all granted
	</Directory>
	
	Alias /omeka1 "/var/www/omeka1"
</VirtualHost>

thank you for reading. have a nice day.

3

Sorry, I actually have another update. This is not working as I thought it should.
The /omeka1 site is showing up on /
in addition to /omeka1
How can I prevent this from happening or so that my omeka classic site is ONLY appearing at the subdirectory?

4

Hi @kiritharan ,

I can’t provide an answer to this problem, but I’m wondering if you can use subdomains instead of subdirectories.

I’ve never tried to put Omeka in a subdirectory and I would say in my experience, it’s far more common to see

omeka1.ournicewebsite.edu
omeka2.ournicewebsite.edu

Each site could be in a different directory on the server, but you would configure the subdomains to point to the corresponding directory.

5

Typically Omeka works just fine in a subdirectory with no setting of RewriteBase or adding Alias or special VirtualHosts, etc.

It’s quite common for people to have Omeka installed at a location other than the server root.

6

thank you @fackrellj . i can do a subdomain if push comes to shove but this would not work aesthetically with our other domains.

@jflatnes do you have any examples, or documentation, or people I can reach out to who may have some experience in doing this, or suggestions regarding my configuration that i have shared above?

7

I’ll just add that I install Omeka Classic and Omeka S in subdirectories regularly with no additional configuration changes. However, if that root directory is the home of something like WP that has it’s own rewrite rules, it won’t work.

8

The typical situation for hosting an Omeka site, whether in a subdirectory or not, just uses a “normal” vhost, along these lines:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName ournicewebsite.edu
	DocumentRoot /var/www/html

	<Directory "/var/www/html">
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride All 
		Require all granted
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Inside /var/www/html if you have separate folders omeka1, omeka2, collectionbuilder, that should “just work”, and they’d be available at ournicewebsite.edu/omeka1, etc.

Using /var/www as the DocumentRoot directly is also fine, as you had it; I only changed my example to /var/www/html as that’s the more common default DocumentRoot. What matters is: the usual setup would be, just make the parent folder that contains all the subdirectory installs the DocumentRoot, then don’t have any Alias or similar configurations.

9

thank you everyone this helped~
everything is working. i had tried putting everything in /var/www/X instead of /var/www/html/X