Configuration of LCA Collaboration Server 2.3

You can set up the LCA Collaboration Server after the installation. You can find the default admin login credentials below. Please change the password after the first login.

User: administrator
password: Plea5eCh@ngeMe

1. (Required) Specify collaboration server directories and base url

2. Specify mail settings and imprint

3. Enable publishing of data with the ‘Releases’ and ‘Homepage’ feature

See how it looks for the LCA Commons (releases of the US Department of Agriculture): https://www.lcacommons.gov/lca-collaboration/

login > go to admin area (tool icon) > settings > check “Releases” > check “Home page” > go to “Overview” > set home title and welcome text

4. Enable the ‘Change log’ feature

To activate the changelog feature you need to set up server side rendering using nodejs

Requirements: NodeJS installed, libxkbcommon-x11-0, libgtk-3-dev
Run ‘apt install libxkbcommon-x11-0 libgtk-3-dev’ to ensure that the required libraries are installed
Install forever with ‘npm install -g forever’
Extract the content of lca-collaboration-server-ssr.zip
Change to the directory with ‘cd /path/to/ssr-files’
If tomcat is not running on the standard localhost and port 8080 you need to adjust the connection inside server.js in line 29
Run ‘npm install’
Start the SSR server with ‘forever start /path/to/ssr-files/server.js’
Run the above command on startup
In the Collaboration Server administration settings enable the ‘Change log’ feature

Troubleshooting: You might need additional linux packages installed, if so, nodejs will fail creating the changelogs. You can find error logs in ~/.forever

A button “Download change log” will be added to the commits view

And, you’re ready to go! You can find the latest version of the LCA Collaboration Server Manual here: https://greendelta.github.io/lca-collaboration-server-manual