RFID

Setup and configuration

The following steps are required in order to set Alma up to work within a library that is RFID-enabled:

1. Install the RFID local server according to the vendor’s instructions.
2. Configure a proxy to allow communication between Alma and the RFID software. Below are instructions for the nginx proxy. (Not needed for Seret)
3. Define an integration profile in Alma

To configure nginx:

1. Install nginx from http://nginx.org/en/
2. In nginx.conf, remove the section starting with “location / ” and instead add:

location / {
   proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1:21645;
   proxy_set_header Host      $host;
   proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

   # According to http://enable-cors.org/server_nginx.html
   if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'SOAPAction,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Private-Network' 'true' always;
            add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
            add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain charset=UTF-8';
            add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
            return 204;
    }

    if ($request_method = 'POST') {
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true' always;
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS' always;
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'SOAPAction,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type' always;
   }
}

server {
listen 5000;
server_name localhost;