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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks, Pat. It finished the
install now. Next problem after I login with the admin username and password the
next page is just blank.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Apache error_log<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>[Mon Oct 05 13:35:44 2009]
[error] [client 141.241.170.118] PHP Notice: Undefined variable:
form_string in /opt/xerte/index.php on line 41<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>[Mon Oct 05 13:35:44 2009]
[error] [client 141.241.170.118] File does not exist:
/opt/xerte/website_code/images/RoundCornerTr.gif, referer:
http://xerte.kingston.ac.uk/website_code/styles/frontpage.css<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>[Mon Oct 05 13:35:44 2009]
[error] [client 141.241.170.118] File does not exist: /opt/xerte/website_code/images/RoundCornerbr.gif,
referer: http://xerte.kingston.ac.uk/website_code/styles/frontpage.css<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>[Mon Oct 05 13:35:44 2009]
[error] [client 141.241.170.118] File does not exist:
/opt/xerte/website_code/images/RoundCornerbL.gif, referer: <a
href="http://xerte.kingston.ac.uk/website_code/styles/frontpage.css">http://xerte.kingston.ac.uk/website_code/styles/frontpage.css</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>In website_code/images the file
names are RoundCornerTR.gif, RoundCornerBR.gif and RoundCornerBL.gif so my case
sensitive Linux system is happy with the case difference. However I think
the important one may be the first one “Undefined variable”:
form_string”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Why is it undefined? Has the
index.php crashed out and if so why?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Kevin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Patrick
Lockley<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 05 October 2009 13:06<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Xerte installation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>I just did a test install, and I get those errors if
setup/database.txt isn’t chmod 0777<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Patrick
Lockley<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 05 October 2009 12:22<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xerte] Xerte installation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'>I’ve never read the
default php.ini, I’ve heard the plot is really bad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'>We did make a long tag version a
while back, and we asked people to report back to us, but never heard anything.
I would assume grepping <? For <?PHP in all the php files would be
quicker than setting up a virtual server?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'>As far as I know, the only
reason it would fail to write those values to database.txt is because of a
rights issue on the folder?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'>Pat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Murray, Kevin P<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 05 October 2009 11:46<br>
<b>To:</b> xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Xerte installation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>I am trying to install Xerte
toolkits and I am running into a few problems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>First just a moan as it says in
the default php.ini file “For portable, redistributable code, be sure not
to use short tags.”. As the web servers here do not use short_open_tags I
had to set up a special virtual machine on which I could turn on short_open_tags
just for Xerte as you can’t turn it on for just one Apache virtual server
it had to affect the whole web service.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>Moan over onto the current
problem. I have followed through the installation and it has created the
database OK as the first time it asks for database privileges it asks for
server name, database name, user, password, and database prefix. However the
second time it only asks for a database user with enough select, insert, modify
and delete privileges and a password. So I duly entered these. On the next page
there is a long list of options in which I filled in the admin username and
password, and put the name of the institution in. On clicking next it says it
cannot write anything to the database. I check in the Xerte directory and the
database.php has the second database username and password but no database
host, database name or database prefix.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>I have been through the steps a
number of times now and the only time I made it close to the end was to modify
the database.php file manually.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>My colleagues from the Education
Technology Unit are keen to use Xerte so it doubly frustrating that the
installation is difficult.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>Kevin Murray<o:p></o:p></p>
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