[Xerte-dev] Re: Coding problem with LItESPEED Server

[Ron Mitchell]

Hi Thomas

hope all is well.

that case statement doesn't actually check if it's an apache server so I
doubt that's the issue here. The apache check is to see if apache has been
set to true either during install or via management and by default it's
false. If it's true it looks for a .htaccess file in the root of the install
and uses the mod_rewrite rules in that file to use urls like /play_55 rather
than /play.pm?template_id=55

 

What's the PHP version on the Lightspeed server? If it's 5.5+ I think that's
more likely to be the problem due to the change in mysql connectivity.

 

Otherwise the problem lies elsewhere.

 

HTH

Ron

 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Thomas
Rochford (Jiscadvance)
Sent: 10 February 2014 21:51
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Coding problem with LItESPEED Server

 

Good Evening,
 
I felt I ought to alert you to a coding problem/bug which makes toolkits
inoperable when using the LITESPEED Server. This claims to be a faster
version of Apache and is in  use on a number of hosting sites, in the
current case, EZPZ which is a very low cost moodle hosting service. I don't
know enough about this to understand the problem fully, but the following
are the symptoms,
 
When selecting a tab from the top of the folder management page, e.g.
selecting 'Workspace' and then 'properties' the Litespeed server throws a
wobbly (i.e. a 404 message)  because it can't find
"/toolkits/workspaceproperties". Looking at the code below, this would seem
to be because XOT seems to think it's dealing with an apache server. I have
commented out the offending sections and it now correctly displays the
Workspace Properties window.
 

        case "workspaceproperties": if(site_apache=="true"){

/*            return url; 

        }else{ */

              return url + ".php"

        }
 
Obviously this is only a one-off fix, but I guess the test for 'site_apache'
needs to be rewritten so that I doesn't include LITESPEED. Phpinfo gives 
 
'_SERVER["SERVER_SOFTWARE"]              LiteSpeed'
 
For the Litespeed Server and 
 
'_SERVER["SERVER_SOFTWARE"]              Apache'
 
For  the Apache one, so perhaps that could be tested. Alternatively the
headers return by the Litespeed server also make it plain as shown below
 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:44:13 GMT
Server: LiteSpeed
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.26
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=1535f76d11842885a64c9705a6d42565; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0,
pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 2719
 
Kindest regards, Thomas
 
 

 

 

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