How to setup plugin system in Koha

Koha plugins allow users to add additional tools/features. We have to make some changes in Koha installation. Follow the steps to get ready Koha to facilitate plugins, Open a Terminal and execute following commands,

Create a directory for plugins,

sudo mkdir /var/lib/koha/plugins
cd /var/lib/koha
sudo chmod -R 755 plugins

Open the following file using your default text editor (e.g. Gedit, Mousepad)

sudo mousepad /etc/koha/sites/library/koha-conf.xml

Find the following line in the file (Line number 281),
 
<enable_plugins>0</enable_plugins>
 
Change the value, 0 to 1 
 
<enable_plugins>1</enable_plugins>

Save and close the file. 
Restart Apache,

sudo service apache2 restart

Goto Koha > Tools, and find Plugins.
You can upload and run plugins from here.
Please find few Koha plugins from the following link,
http://bywatersolutions.com/koha-plugins/

Reference
https://koha-community.org/manual/20.11/en/html/plugins.html

2 comments:

  1. Thanks .It works fine .The Plugin system is now enabled in our Koha 3.12 software system.
    Is there any plugin KPZ file available for catalogue card printing ?
    Regards

    ReplyDelete
  2. Very interesting! :) But this doesn't fit with current package koha-common installation, and:
    is very risky to put 777 permissions to a folder, it should be only to koha users (for each instance):
    /etc/koha/sites/INSTANCE/koha-conf.xml
    /var/lib/koha/INSTANCE/plugins
    Alias /plugin/ "/var/lib/koha/INSTANCE/plugins"

    ReplyDelete