[greenstone-users] Installing Greenstone on an ISP
| From | Christopher Guerrant |
| Date | Fri, 19 Mar 2004 23:45:40 -0800 |
| Subject | [greenstone-users] Installing Greenstone on an ISP |
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Hello,
I want to use Greenstone for a collection of personal
documentation. It consists of about 500 handwritten letters from the
1800's and several hundred other image files.
I would assume that the majority of Greenstone users
are affiliated with an academic institution where there is greater flexibility
over the use of web servers.
I am not affiliated with a university so I need to find
an Internet Service Provider (ISP) on which to run Greenstone and to host the
image files of my collection.
I read only a few postings on the Greenstone mailing
lists regarding installing the software on an ISP. I still am unclear
about how to find an appropriate ISP.
My questions regarding ISP's are as
follows:
Am I correct in my belief that any ISP will have to
manually install Greenstone, just like I would do on my own computer?
If that is the case, isn't it unlikely to find many
ISPs that will go to the trouble? After all, they probably haven't heard
of Greenstone and might be uncomfortable installing something they are not
familiar with.
Is there a way to FTP the software to an ISP's
webserver myself and go through most of the install and then just ask the ISP to
do a few small steps themselves?
Other than pair.com (which was mentioned in the mailing
list but at 17.95/month is too expensive for me), are there other known ISPs
that would be easy to work with in installing Greenstone?
Thanks for any suggestions.
-Christopher Guerrant
Los Angeles, California | |