If you have multiple libraries or branches on the same Koha installation, you might want to use the multiple OPAC interfaces feature of Koha.
We use this feature to:
Create a customized OPAC interface for each library
Each OPAC interface can have its own logo, colors, fonts, and so on.
Search is limited to the particular library
Here are the steps to doing this:
Edit the Apache2
koha-httpd.conf
file and create a virtual host block for each library or branch.You will need domain names for each branch, for example,
branch1.mykohalibrary.org
,branch2.mykohalibrary.org
.In each virtual host, repeat this stanza, change the values of environment variables
OPAC_CSS_OVERRIDE
andOPAC_SEARCH_LIMIT
appropriately.SetEnv OPAC_CSS_OVERRIDE branch1.css SetEnv OPAC_SEARCH_LIMIT branch:branch1 SetEnv OPAC_LIMIT_OVERRIDE 1
Create the corresponding style sheet files in the folder:
/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en/css/branch1.css
If we had two branches, we would have two Apache2 virtual hosts as...