Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Openbiblio Working with Amazon lookup

Thanks to LIS student Kris Meen, we now have the Amazon lookup working with the Openbiblio ILS. The problem had been that it installed ok but that every search turned up zero results.

We had obtained an access key by registereding with Amazon web services. The problem was that Amazon provided a key ID as well as a secret access key.

We had originally followed the instructions for the patch and edited the amazon conf.php file and added the secret access key. The solution is to use the access key ID not the secret key.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Sounds like you got the perfect wrong instructions!

Brian said...

Could you let me know what you changed to get the amazon lookup to work.

Spence said...

I also wondered what exactly you changed to get it working... when you say the 'solution is to use the access key ID not the secret key'.. where do you mean? I have been liking openbiblio as well, just need some help getting this amazon plugin working... Thanks :)