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- 2017: I do not see any documentation about self-hosting a Zotero server. Do you know if there is one ?
- Nothing currently useful, no (all existing documentation is outdated). Zotero makes the code available but doesn't provide any support for self-hosted servers. The code is here: https://github.com/zotero/dataserver a Docker package is planned, but no ETA.
- You can set up a local dataserver that replaces Zotero for all syncing activity -- the code is all open: https://github.com/zotero/dataserver -- but there aren't currently good instructions or support available for this, so you'd be mostly on your own.
- ghjs123: We are very interested in having our own self-hosted Zotero. Based on the posts underneath and the two projects on Github I was wondering what the current status is of these projects is. Would one of the two be the (official?) Docker-version which adamsmith is referring to?
- kratsching: (September 24, 2021) As it is fall 2021 an no answer was given in spring 2019 - i'd like to re-ask the question.
- adamsmith(September 24, 2021) There are no updates on this. Anything official would be easy to spot on Zotero's GitHub. https://github.com/ZotPrime/zotprime is the best maintained community option
mrtcode : travaille chez Zotero? Contribue au code des repos Zotero
- FWIW, mrtcode works for Zotero, so what you see on his repo is either a Zotero developer trying this out because they're curious, or an early attempt from Zotero. I'd give that version a shot (adamsmith sept 2018)
- repo n'existe plus. le contacter pour demander pourquoi il l'a supprimé? (git.martynas@gmail.com)
- il fait des trucs pas mal aussi
- last update may 2019
- Look at https://github.com/SamuelHassine/zotero-prime which is more frequently maintained than this repo
https://github.com/ZotPrime/zotprime
- ZotPrime is a full packaged repository aimed to make on-premise Zotero deployment easier with the last versions of both Zotero client and server. This is the result of sleepness nights spent to deploy Zotero within my organization on a disconnected network. Feel free to open issues or pull requests if you did not manage to use it.
- last update april 2021
- mêmes contributeurs que zotero dont mrtcode & dstillman
- still maintained? (dec 2021)
@danielnbalasoiu, from my experience I know setting up successfully an own instance of zotero is pretty challenging. Additionally, the focus of the zotero developers is the cloud version and, therefore, any solution like zotero-prime is most likely a community contributed 3rd party niche offer without any funding behind. However, keeping up with the latest versions needs efforts which aren't valuable for anyone who already has a running version.
TL;DR: I wouldn't expect much updates here. Except community contributed fixes in forks of this repository or in the issues of this repository.
Official zotero data server
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self hosting documentationsince sept 2020-
dstillman
This isn't a documentation issue — it's a technical and resource one. Creating a version that's easy to self-host would just be a completely different project from running a hosted service for millions of users on a sprawling AWS infrastructure with countless services, databases, database shards, caches, search clusters, Lambdas, etc., and all the processes for deploying, debugging, upgrading, and monitoring it, not to mention managing compatibility across different versions of Zotero clients, would be completely different. We still do hope to make a more easily self-hostable version at some point, but for now our priority is maintaining the service for Zotero users. (30 sept 2020)
Just to be totally clear, though, this isn't something that just needs time allocated once and then would be fixed. It would need to be a permanent, ongoing effort to keep a self-hostable version current. We try to document necessary changes in commit messages, with scripts for DB upgrade steps, notes about new dependencies, etc., but any sort of update to a self-hosted version would just require a totally different process from what we do internally.
It'd be relatively feasible to build a container-based version of the server environment — we've experimented with that in the past — but once there are users and existing data, keeping it working and current and compatible with Zotero clients is a much more difficult proposition. (4 octobre 2020)
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edgimar
It seems that what Zotero needs is a stable, well-documented API for the data-server. Honestly, in order to do good development, this API is probably already documented somewhere. Unless I'm mistaken, however,
this API doesn't appear to be publicly available (the APIs published here are only for read-only access to data on the server).Correction: the API does support read/write operations.With the full API publicly available, then anyone can choose to implement a data-server however they wish, so long as it complies with the API. (13 dec 2020)
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Zotero Storage is the recommended file sync option. It has several advantages over WebDAV syncing, including syncing of files in group libraries, web-based access to PDFs and other attachments, easier setup, guaranteed compatibility, and improved upload performance for certain files. Each Zotero user is given 300 MB of free Zotero Storage for attached files, with larger storage plans available for purchase.
See the Zotero Storage documentation for more information.
**Attention! ** Only Zotero File Storage is supported for group libraries.
WebDAV is a standard protocol for transferring files over the web, and it can be used to sync files in your personal library. (Group libraries cannot use WebDAV.) Your employer or research institution may be able to provide WebDAV storage. Otherwise, there are many third-party options, both free and paid (see WebDAV providers known to work with Zotero).
Once you have your WebDAV account info, enter the URL provided by the service, your username, and your password in the Sync preferences tab. Be sure to select 'http' or 'https' as appropriate — if you're not sure, try 'https' first. After entering the information, click “Verify Server”. If Zotero successfully verifies the WebDAV account, you're all set to use file syncing via WebDAV.
Zotero file sync should work with any correctly functioning WebDAV server. Zotero developers cannot provide support for third-party WebDAV servers.
With linked files, Zotero only stores a link to the location of the original file on your computer. Linked files are not synced, nor are they deleted if the attachment item is deleted in Zotero. They also can't be used within a group library, as there's no guarantee that other group members would have access to the same file location
you can attach links to files stored in a cloud-sync folder, such as Dropbox or Google Drive. When using linked attachments, you should set up Zotero's Linked Attachment Base Directory feature so that Zotero can find your files on each computer, even if the path to the cloud-sync folder differs
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