Things I've learned from working with Eprints
Shawn M. Jones
I hope these little tidbits help others avoid the issues I've had.
1. Eprints doesn't appear to support text search on RDF files. One of my test files was my FOAF file.
2. Eprints requires several system library upgrades before you install it. Don't run it on a server that you use to serve other web content.
3. Eprints wants to be your web server's front page by default. You can configure it to use another front page, but it doesn't come that way out of the box. To configure it to use other pages, follow this example (the paths and filenames depend on your installation):
http://wiki.eprints.org/w/How_to_add_a_subdirectory_that_runs_PHP_scripts
replace "urls.pl" with "20_baseurls.pl", and the rest is dependent on your knowledge of configuring Apache.
4. You may get a PERL error saying that a file named "allkeys.txt" is missing. Get it from here:
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/allkeys.txt
5. Eprints has a misleading page on the XML import format. The actual format specification is here:
http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Import_From_URL
and an example is at the bottom of this article:
http://wiki.eprints.org/w/XML_Export_Format
Other than that, it's pretty smooth sailing.
Good luck,
--Shawn