The 'Sanskrit and Tamil Dictionaries' is a web application created c. 2003 by Thomas Malten (who supplied the digitized dictionaries) and Kira Stöwe (who programmed the display) .
This repository contains all the programs and data required to run this application on an appropriate web server.
This has been tested on a computer with Windows 11 operating system running the XAMPP web server.
Experienced users will know various other ways to install this application. It is a php web application.
Here are details of one way to install.
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clone this repository, about 22 mb
- Unzip this to folder which will be named
Cologne-Sanskrit-Tamil-master; the files in this folder are
directories
datandsqlite, programsrecherche.plandcgi-include.pl, web pageindex.htmland a couple of other files.,
- Unzip this to folder which will be named
Cologne-Sanskrit-Tamil-master; the files in this folder are
directories
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Install XAMPP for a Windows computer into C:\xampp directory
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move the folder somewhere below the C:\xampp\htdocs folder.
- for example: C:\xampp\htdocs\cologne\csl-santam
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Open the XAMPP COntrol Panel, and start the
Apache module. -
Open a browser, and enter the url http://localhost/cologne/csl-santam/php
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Now the Sanskrit and Tamil Dictionaries display should be functioning.
See the readme_dev.txt file for some comments of possible relevance to developers.
If you install this on any public server, please add a notice that the data source is from http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/, or reference this repository https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/Cologne-Sanskrit-Tamil.
If you install this display under different configurations, please consider sharing the details of any changes required, so that others may benefit from your experience.