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

[Pat L (pgogy)]

it isn't apache it's htaccess - just set apache to be false on the
management side


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Thomas Rochford (Jiscadvance) <
thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk> wrote:

> Good Evening,
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> 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,
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> 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.
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>         case "workspaceproperties": if(site_apache=="true"){
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> /*            return url;
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>         }else{ */
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>               return url + ".php"
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>         }
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> 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
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> '_SERVER["SERVER_SOFTWARE"]              LiteSpeed'
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> For the Litespeed Server and
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> '_SERVER["SERVER_SOFTWARE"]              Apache'
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> 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
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> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:44:13 GMT
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> Server: LiteSpeed
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> Connection: close
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> X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.26
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> Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=1535f76d11842885a64c9705a6d42565; path=/
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> Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
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> Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
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> Pragma: no-cache
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> Content-Type: text/html
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> Content-Length: 2719
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> Kindest regards, Thomas
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