[Xerte-dev] Re: Current Issues

[Ron Mitchell]

Hi John/all
Here's a link to a copy of xampp with this issue replicated http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xampp.zip

It's about 308MB so depending on your connection speed may take a while to download. I'll leave it in place for a day or so.

Extract the zip to the root of a drive or USB e.g. so that you have something like G:\xampp
Then run G:\xampp\xampp-control.exe
On the landing page at http://localhost/xampp/ you'll find links and account details for Moodle 1.9 | Moodle 2 | Mahara 1.4 | Xerte Online Toolkits 1.9beta

The xot install is inside the moodle directory e.g. http://localhost/moodle/xerte but at the moment is configured as guest access

In the sitedetails table the integration_config_path is currently set to /xampp/htdocs/moodle19/config.php so it's pointing to a 1.9 moodle install and will exhibit the main problem of not being able to create new projects, clearing the workspace etc etc

Try creating a new project to see this.

If you then use phpmyadmin to change the integration_config_path to /xampp/htdocs/moodle/config.php which is moodle 2.3 and refresh you should find that all works ok

Change back to xampp/htdocs/moodle19/config.php refresh and the problem will re-occur

HTH
Ron


-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 04 December 2012 00:27
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Current Issues

Hi Ron,

Yes if you package up an XAMPP setup with the problem then i'll take a look tomorrow.

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell [ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk]
Sent: 03 December 2012 23:36
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Current Issues

Hi David
unfortunately my access to the techdis install is restricted to my home IP and also is being used for other things daily so not a good environment for testing and changing things.

I just searched my local moodle 1.9 code for Zend_Locale and nothing found. There are lots of references to Zend_search though.

I can probably create a copy of a xampp with this problem existing to run from usb stick if that would help anyone?

Going to shut down for the night now though - can't see the wood for the trees again. :-(

Cheers
Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Goodwin
Sent: 03 December 2012 23:02
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Current Issues


On 3 Dec 2012, at 22:56, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk<mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>> wrote:


It gets even more complicated :-(

Unfortunately it's not as simple as saying the conflict doesn't exist with moodle 2 or later because I just tested with a moodle 2.3x config and the problem/conflict exists with that too.

My xampp php is 5.3.5
Techdis server is 5.3.2

On my xampp I can reproduce the issue with the latest svn code and unchanged functions.php with the following moodle configs
1.9
2.3
but no conflict with 2.2

Anyone got a time machine! ;-)



Are you able to give someone (hopefully technical) remote access to the server?

Random guesses:

1. It's an issue with PHP+APC - I've seen it output blank pages before with no error being logged (especially PHP 5.4.x) .. restarting Apache will fix the problem; normally something will be logged though. Upgrading PHP/APC may help - or switching to use e.g. XCache.

2. Your error reporting settings are somehow unhelpful, or moodle/something is changing the error reporting settings so nothing useful is being logged.

3. Moodle could perhaps be using/bundling their own version of the Zend Framework - and if they're explicitly loading Zend_Locale (or whatever) as well as how XOT is then there could be a clash - one option may be to wrap some of the require calls for Zend_* in if(!class_exists('Zend_Locale')) { require_once ('Zend/Locale.php'); } etc.


David.







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