[Xerte] Re: Moodle authentication patch gives blank screen

[Tom Reijnders]

Robert,

The problems you have with xerte toolkit seem to revolve around user 
management/user authentication

Xerte Toolkits does not provide user management, it relies on other 
systems to provide user authentication. The following options are 
available at the moment:

1. ldap (the default). You could try to install an ldap server and add 
users to ldap. It is not for the faint hearted. An example of a ldap 
server is the Active Directory Service of Windows servers. There are 
several open source solutions as well
2. moodle. With the moodle patch you can use the moodle user management 
and moodle user database withing Xerte Toolkits. But..., you have to 
have moodle installed on the same server for this to work.
3. Simple authentication using fixed users in a .php file. There are two 
files present in the installation directory. demo.txt (doesn't require 
authentication) and switch.txt (contains 4 fixed users). If you want to 
use those, you copy them over the existing index.php. If using 
switch.txt, you have to change the users and passwords in that file.

Hope this clarifies things for you.

Tom

Op 1-11-2011 1:14, Robert Chalmers schreef:
>
> I set up a brand new xertetoolkit install, made usre I could at least 
> login (there are other problems) then installed the moodle auth patch.
>
> All it gives is a blank screen.
>
> Much hand wringing….
>
> Robert
>
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