Not using handle.net and avoiding 123456789 dummy handle in URLs

[Benedikt Kroll]

Hi,

for a new DSpace site, we will be using DOIs and URNs for persistent
identification. Therefore, we are planning not to use handle.net.
Currently, this would mean that all item URLs would have this 123456789
dummy handle prefix.

We would like to avoid having these numbers in all urls. Instead, it
would be great if they could be replaced by a string, for example
https://subdomain.domain.tld/item/567762.

What would be the best way to avoid the dummy handle prefix and replace
it with a string?

We could think of ways to solve this as an individual aspect, but I'm
looking for a way that is likely not to interfere with future updates.
Even though there will be DOIs for every item, it is likely that users
will use the URL for bookmarking etc., so it would be good to keep them
stable as well.

Thanks for your help!

Benedikt Kroll

[Claudia Jürgen]

Hallo Benedikt,

take a look at
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/Configuration+Reference
Section: Handle Server Configuration
You can use [your url]/handle as handle.canonical.prefix and some string
as handle.prefix. This would result to URL's and dc.identifer.uri's like
[YourDSpaceURL]/handle/SomeString/[Number]
Item might be a confusing name as it is a DSpace Object and got a
special meaning and URL's for communities and collections would have it too.

Hope this helps

Claudia Jürgen

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[Benedikt Kroll]

Hallo Claudia,

thanks, that is helpful. May I suggest that this section be linked with
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/Installing+DSpace#InstallingDSpace-TheHandleServer?
It only says "At the moment, you need to change the code a little to
use something else (e.g PURLs) but that should change soon", but a link
to that paragraph on the Configuration Reference page would be more
effective there.

My wiki account appears not to have write permission on those pages,
maybe someone with sufficient rights could consider making this edit.

Thanks!

Benedikt Kroll

[hosk...@gmail.com]

Hello,
I can not understand any think.
Can we ovveride file sitebndl.zip.
With what we can replace "300:0.NA/YOUR_NAMING_AUTHORITY" in handle-server/config.dct
thanks for help

[helix84]

If you don't want to register and pay for a handle prefix, you don't have to use the handle server ([dspace]/hadle-server/). In such case, there's no need to configure anything and your URLs will look like this: http://example.com/handle/123456789/[postfix].

Regards,
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[hosk...@gmail.com]

Thanks for reply
Ok I will just change the 'handle prefix, handle.canonical.prefix' in config/local.cfg to some strings and don't need to run [dspace]/bin/dspace make-handle-config [dspace]/handle-server.

Thank you very much

[admin]

Can I simply use empty handle.string, like:

handle.prefix = ""

?

Or it cannot be empty?

[Tim Donohue]

Hello,

A handle.prefix cannot be empty. It is used as part of the URL path for all items, and setting it to an empty string may result in unexpected behavior.  Any other string value should be fine, however.

- Tim

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