Installing a server?

paulinemak

Hi,

Is it possible to install my own zotero server? I can only find information about clients.

Cheers,

-Pauline.

ajlyon

Not yet. The Zotero team has indicated that they will eventually release the server code, but that hasn't happened yet.

My uninformed, non-team-member guess is that they want to make sure that the client-server protocol is cleaned up and stable before opening the floodgates. It would be hard to make significant changes to the protocol once institutions start installing their own Zotero servers.

paulinemak

Ah, ok. Thanks for the impressively quick response :)

So... the follow on question would is... Would this protocol will be published?

ajlyon

Well, releasing the code is tantamount to publishing the protocol. For that matter, the current client code is likely sufficient to work out the protocol, if you care to try.

pjalet

Not yet. The Zotero team has indicated that they will eventually release the server code, but that hasn't happened yet.

I guess (hope?) it should happen soon, since it was mentioned here that We[the development team]'re planning to release the code once 2.0 is final. And as far as I know, 2.0 is final. Looking forward to it!

alexuw

It would be hard to make significant changes to the protocol once institutions start installing their own Zotero servers.

I'm not a developer either, but I'd like to point out that this is not a problem as long as server and client release cycles are synchronized.

What would be a problem is that the client update process is quasi-automatic and the server's would not be, but anyone running their own server would probably want to manage client updates themselves anyhow.