User manual

Chapter 13

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Setting up a public Z39.50 server

With Koha you can publish your catalog records to the outside world via the Z39.50

protocol. This will allow any Z39.50 compliant client software to search and copy

records from your catalog. Some applications of this feature are:

Allow other libraries to copy records from your catalog

Include your catalog data in results of a Z39.50 compliant federated search

tool in use in your organization

Configuring your Koha to be a Z39.50 server is not that hard; we cover the steps below.

We edit the koha- conf . xml file to configure the public Z39.50 server:

koha @li190 -245: -/kohaclone$ vi /etc /koha -dev /etc /koha- conf.xml

Configuring the listen directive

The listen directive controls the network protocol, the IP address and the port that

our public server will be available on.

To set up the listen directive for the public server, remove the comment tags on the

listen directive for the public server:

<! -- public server runs on tcp -->

The @ symbol signifies all IP addresses, so the public Z39.50 server will listen on any

and all IP addresses on the machine. You can set up a specific IP address here if you

like, something like:

<! -- public server runs on tcp - ->

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