DSpace7 - differences between developer and production mode

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Jan Broulím

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Oct 11, 2021, 11:18:13 AM10/11/21

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Hi all,

may I ask what are the differences when running DSpace in developer and production modes?

Our problem, that it works only in dev. mode still remains, production mode throws "no _links section found" error.

Settings are identical.

Regards

Jan

Tim Donohue

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Oct 12, 2021, 5:49:53 PM10/12/21

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Hi Jan,

The primary difference is that production mode and developer mode is that production mode supports "server side rendering", which is necessary to support Search Engine Optimization (SEO), as it allows for the UI to run even when JavaScript is turned off or disabled. Production mode also precompiles all code & minimizes the size of the code/app to improve performance.

There's been some good discussion on the "No _links section found" error in your email to the dspace-tech list. It sounds like at least one person discovered the underlying issue was an expired (Let's Encrypt) SSL certificate. See thread at https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-tech/c/LFny34HW_ug