[Xerte] Re: Compressed (zip) folder is invalid and LDAP errors.

[Jacob Yardley]

Thanks for the reply Ron, we have tried a variety of users and browsers
(FF, Chrome and IE), successfully published projects and 1 page tests all
with the same result. Curiously our security on email detects an exe file
in the broken zip and will not let us send it, but will let us send the
non-broken zips I have made from the new build 2.1 server.

The old current server started out quite a few versions back and has been
upgraded to 2.0 with changes to the LDAP settings made along the way as our
LDAP server moved. The 2.1 build is on a new VM server constructed purely
for xerte which makes me think we missed something key in the set-up for
LDAP to fall so flat. I did increase the php memory settings as they seemed
low on the new install, and as I say the zip export works on 2.1.

Thoughts on upgrading 2.0 to 2.1 to see if it fixes the zip? Do not want to
risk breaking the LDAP on current live system.

Tom Reijnders has had a couple of goes with LDAP fixes in 2.1 - both
interesting, but neither quite my problem, hence why I thought I'd skip
that completely as there is still the 'how do we transfer xerte files
between servers' question.
http://www.xerte.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=2&id=292&Itemid=759&lang=en


On 28 July 2014 14:51, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:

> Re the zip export from 2.0 are you using IE by any chance? Can you try a
> different browser? Also make sure projects are published before exporting
> and test with a small project to eliminate size issues.
>
>
>
> From memory there were some issues for some (minority) users using IE but
> not a conclusive cause/solution and those same users were able to export ok
> using Chrome or Firefox.
>
>
>
> Re LDAP
>
> Did you install from scratch or an upgrade? If the latter did you run
> upgrade.php? It's always difficult to troubleshoot this kind of issue
> because configurations vary but as far as I'm aware 2.1 should work fine
> with LDAP once the settings are correct but it may depend on exactly which
> revision.
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Jacob Yardley
> *Sent:* 28 July 2014 14:35
> *To:* xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Compressed (zip) folder is invalid and LDAP errors.
>
>
>
> Hello List,
>
> Our users are able to export from version 2.0 as far as a zip file is
> created, but on trying to open the zip file are told it is invalid and it
> can neither be opened nor imported. Any idea why?
>
>
>
> We need to transfer to a new server soon which has 2.1 installed. Guest
> access and zip export works fine on the new server, but cannot get LDAP to
> work despite using the same settings as our 2.0 server. There seem to be
> few problems with LDAP on 2.1 noted elsewhere, but from debug logs we
> simply get the following repeated, so some key process is not taking place?
>
> 2014-07-18 12:04:48
> /var/www/xertetoolkits/website_code/php/database_library.php139Running :
> SELECT * FROM xertesitedetails
>
>
>
> As LDAP login does not work, had hoped to simply set the few users up via
> the database authentication method and have them import their files -hence
> our discovery of the zip problem.
>
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Jacob Yardley                                tel: 020 7133 4081
London Metropolitan University

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