CGSpace Notes

July, 2025

Thu Jul 24, 2025 by Alan Orth in Notes

A few days ago I deployed nginx caching for the DSpace Angular frontend
- It works on collection, community, and item pages
- I modified the nginx proxy cache key to: $request_uri$mapped_language$mapped_encoding

Sat Apr 05, 2025 by Alan Orth in Notes

Mon Mar 17, 2025 by Alan Orth in Notes

We noticed that some PDFs do not have thumbnails despite having been uploaded months ago

Fri Feb 21, 2025 by Alan Orth in Notes

Battling with high load on CGSpace from bots a few times the past few weeks
- I think I need to re-work the bot filtering some how

Fri Jan 03, 2025 by Alan Orth in Notes

Trying to get search results for a large boolean query given to me by some researchers
- When searching via the Angular frontend I see an error in the Tomcat logs:

Wed Dec 04, 2024 by Alan Orth in Notes

We need to get view and download statistics for the last year from CGSpace
- The only way to get that is using Solr

Mon Nov 11, 2024 by Alan Orth in Notes

Some IP in India is making tons of requests this morning with a normal user agent:

# awk '{print $1}' /var/log/nginx/api-access.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -h | tail -n 40
...
513743 49.207.196.249

Thu Oct 03, 2024 by Alan Orth in Notes

I had an idea to get abstracts from OpenAlex
- For copyright reasons they don’t include plain abstracts, but the pyalex library can convert them on the fly