Installing, configuring and maintaining an ArchivesSpace instance

This documentation will provide implementers and administrators with the information needed to install, configure and maintain an ArchivesSpase instance. Additional documentation is available for developers and to provide a technical overview of ArchivesSpace for evaluating technical requirements and capabilities.

If you discover errors in the documentation, or would like to suggest or contribute additional documentation, please submit an issue or pull request as appropriate.

Installation and configuration

• Getting started (All Versions)
• Configuring ArchivesSpace (All Versions)
• Running ArchivesSpace against MySQL (All Versions)
• Running ArchivesSpace with external Solr (Version 3.2+)
• Running ArchivesSpace as a Unix daemon (All Versions)
• Running ArchivesSpace as a Windows service (All Versions)
• Adding support for additional username/password-based authentication backends (All Versions)
• Configuring LDAP authentication (All Versions)

Customization and theming

• ArchivesSpace Plug-ins
• Customizing text in ArchivesSpace
• Theming ArchivesSpace
• Managing frontend assets with Bower
• Creating Custom Reports
• ArchivesSpace XSL stylesheets

Maintenance

• Re-creating indexes
• Resetting passwords
• Upgrading
• Backup and recovery
• ArchivesSpace releases and database versions

Advanced configuration

• Tuning ArchivesSpace
• Running ArchivesSpace with load balancing and multiple tenants
• Serving ArchivesSpace over subdomains
• Serving ArchivesSpace user-facing applications over HTTPS
• Application monitoring with New Relic
• Running ArchivesSpace under a prefix
• JMeter Test Group Template

Migrating data from Archivists’ Toolkit and Archon

• Archivists’ Toolkit migration tool instructions
• Archon migration tool instructions

Other migration resources

• Migration tools and data mapping