This section of the wiki includes useful information for tasks which are beyond the normal ones of running GLI and building collections. We think of it as aimed for the Greenstone system administrator.

Other advanced information can be found in the Developer Guide which is aimed at users who intend to add new features to Greenstone, and includes information on compiling Greenstone.

• Webswing GLI: Notes for getting it working on headless server, and behind apache.
• Using the GS3 Web Editor: Adding metadata and more through the Greenstone 3 Web Editor.
• Security in Greenstone Collections: Password protect the whole collection or all/some of the documents in a collection.
• Greenstone 3 User Management: Registering and editing users and groups in Greenstone 3.
• Greenstone 2 User Management: Registering and editing users and groups in Greenstone 2.
• Greenstone 2 Administration Pages
• Greenstone Extensions
• Greenstone Archive Formats: Description of the archival formats used by the import process: GreenstoneXML and GreenstoneMETS. These are the formats that all documents are converted to during the import process.
• Browsing Classifiers: Information about how classifiers work.
• Advanced Collection Building:
• Collection Database:
• Command Line Building : How to build collections on the command line.
• Command Line Downloading: Command line versions of the options provided in GLI Download panel.
• Debugging Greenstone: Some tips for debugging.
• Document Identifiers : What are the different document identifier schemes and how to choose a different one.
• Fedora Librarian Interface: What is the Fedora Librarian Interface (FLI) and how to run it.
• Greenbug:Using Greenbug, and online XSL template editor for Greenstone 3.
• Advanced Greenstone 2 Formatting topics:
• Enabling User Comments: how to turn on the ability to allow users to leave comments on documents.
• Advanced Installation : compiling Greenstone from SVN source code.
• Lucene : Indexing using Lucene.
• Advanced topics to do with metadata:
• OAI: Harvesting data using OAI, and setting up your own OAI server.
• Remote Greenstone: Setting up a server on a remote computer and connecting to it using a local version of GLI.
• Scheduled Building: Scheduling automatic building of Greenstone collections.
• Script Options: A list of all Greenstone scripts and their options.
• Advanced Server: Greenstone 2: Setting up an Apache webserver for Greenstone 2
• Advanced Server: Greenstone 3: Information about Tomcat for Greenstone 3.
• SOLR:Info for using SOLR, Greenstone 3 only.
• Using DatabasePlugin: Sample configuration settings for using DatabasePlugin to import records from a database.
• Using the GreenstoneSQLPlugout with GreenstoneSQLPlugin: In place of doc.xml files, you can send the metadata and/or fulltext to your MySQL database.
• Using the expand_macros.pl script: The expand_macros.pl script allows you to get a list of all macros and where they are defined.
• Z3950: Downloading documents to Greenstone using Z3950/SRU. Setting up a Z3950 server (Greenstone 2 only)
• All about displayItems and customizing
• Customizing the document display for Greenstone 3
• Information on the databases that Greenstone uses
• Upgrading your greenstone installation
• Tracking your website using Google Analytics
• Processing PDFs with Icecite and the UnknownConverterPlugin
• Making the GS3 tomcat web server publicly accessible on Windows 10: for testing purposes, such as for the OAI validation portion of the tutorial Setting up your Greenstone OAI Server