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How do I run DSpace on port 80/443?

See DspaceOnStandardPorts Running DSpace on Standard Ports

Do I need HTTPS (SSL)?

See SecuringDspace,

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• In XMLUI, use Advanced Policy Manager. Log in as an administrator, in the Administrative menu, click Authorizations (under Access Control.) Then in the main pane, under the search box, there's a link to the tool (Advanced authorizations tool: Click here to go to the item wildcard policy admin tool).
• You can write a curation task (DSpace 1.7 and newer, see DSpace 1.8: Curation System, Curation Task Cookbook)
• You can write custom SQL query on the "resourcepolicy" table. On newer DSpace versions which use Discovery, update the discovery index (using the -f flag) after running the SQL query.

How do I remove the search box from the front page in XMLUI?

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