[Xerte-dev] Re: HELP - can't create new projects on techdis install

Wed Nov 28 21:36:46 GMT 2012

You need to remember sessions are created at different times, so if you
change code you might need to use a different browser.

It doesn't happen to me using XAMPP locally.

I would turn off moodle auth, set it to guest. Create a guest account
that's brand new. Then test it

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>wrote:

> Thanks for confirming John.
>
> I'm beginning to think this problem has existed since the recent merge but
> hasn't been noticed because we've all be testing locally on xampp. I could
> be wrong but I've just tried copying all the relevant files from my local
> working xampp install to the clean install I've been using on the techdis
> server and that same code now running on linux has the same problem of not
> properly creating new projects.
>
> Can anyone else test on a linux install?
>
> Pat - any new suggestions?
>
> -----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: 28 November 2012 21:24
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: HELP - can't create new projects on techdis
> install
>
> Cheers Ron.
>
> It's running fine for me under XAMPP... have been able to create a few new
> projects without issue...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith | Learning Technologist
> Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences |
> Glasgow
> Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
> ________________________________________
> 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: 28 November 2012 20:46
> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: HELP - can't create new projects on techdis
> install
>
> Hi John
> that's my fault :-(
> in auth_config.php uncomment guest and comment static.
> If you wanted to use static to see how that works the accounts are in
> \library\Xerte\Authentication\static.php
> I'd be keen to know if you have any problems creating projects?
> Cheers
> 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: 28 November 2012 20:34
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: HELP - can't create new projects on techdis
> install
>
> Hi all,
>
> just did an update and running XOT off XAMMP and now i'm being prompted for
> a login. Never had to login before, can someone let me know what the
> details
> are for the USB XOT install?
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith | Learning Technologist
> Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences |
> Glasgow
> Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
> ________________________________________
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> [patrick.lockley at googlemail.com]
> Sent: 28 November 2012 19:43
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: HELP - can't create new projects on techdis
> install
>
> i would guess one new file exists which is outputting whitespace before the
> session starts
>
> I would guess when you made auth_thingie it has either whitespace or is
> required before session start
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Ron Mitchell
> <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk<mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>> wrote:
> I did a clean install from svn locally and all seems ok with that so I'm
> going to replace the whole directory apart from user-files and database.php
> etc and see whether that fixes it. Going to take a while though :-(
>
> From:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nott
> ingham.ac.uk>
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at li
> sts.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 28 November 2012 17:40
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: HELP - can't create new projects on techdis
> install
>
> The sessions are screwed.
>
> I can create new LOs fine, but they aren't created as me, so something is
> poorly in the session code somewhere.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Pat Lockley
> <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com<mailto:patrick.lockley at googlemail.com>>
> wrote:
> remembered
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Pat Lockley
> <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com<mailto:patrick.lockley at googlemail.com>>
> wrote:
> how do i get my password?
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Ron Mitchell
> <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk<mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>> wrote:
> Yes everything was ok at that point and is ok on my localhost install too.
>
> Have turned on error reporting on http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/ but
> not
> getting any errors messages.
>
> Not seeing anything wrong in fiddler either :-(
>
> From:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nott
> ingham.ac.uk>
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at li
> sts.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 28 November 2012 17:14
>
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: HELP - can't create new projects on techdis
> install
>
> turn on error reporting
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Julian Tenney
> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>
> wrote:
> Had you updated after Pat checked his stuff in last week? i.e. is that what
> broke it? I thought you had those issues that led to the config.php being
> split discussions, was everything OK at that point?
>
> From:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nott
> ingham.ac.uk>
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at li
> sts.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
> Sent: 28 November 2012 17:03
> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] HELP - can't create new projects on techdis install
>
> I've been wasting hours on this now :-(
>
> I updated the Techdis install with the latest svn code and now I can't
> create new projects.
>
> Clicking create pops up the editor window but refreshes the workspace and
> then shows an empty workspace.
>
> Seems like it's probably a session thing or something but I can't find
> what.
> Trouble is I tried reverting the code back to a previous version and still
> got the same problem. So now it's back to the latest code.
>
> I can edit existing projects and add to them just can't create anything
> new.
>
> Anyone else had this?
> Is it a consequence of recent changes?
>
> Cheers
> Ron
>
>
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