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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Pat,<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'>Still struggling with the blank
page. I can login to the management.php side fine using the admin username and
password so I have attempted to enter details for our LDAP servers. Although a
format isn’t specified so I have just put the bare name ldap.example.com
not the URL ldaps://ldap.example.com.<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'>Turning the PHP display_errors
On shows no errors on the blank page and the “Notice: Undefined variable:
form_string in /opt/xerte/index.php” only appears when going back to the
index.php page explicitly as there is no way to get back from the blank page.<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'>Changing the frontpage.css fixed
all the case related errors.<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'>Is there a specific debug mode
in Xerte itself to make it give me more feedback as to what is wrong with it?<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 13:49<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><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Your blank page is almost certainly a lack of LDAP on your server.
Form string is something that comes from the database, I think to draw the
login box. It should be there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Look in sitedetails for form_string?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>The admin username and password is for management.php only (it
doesn’t work for index.php)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>I thought we’d gotten all the mod_spelling errors out of the
way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Anyone know a quick way of lower casing a website?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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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 13:45<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='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 style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Apache
error_log<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><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 style='margin-left:36.0pt'><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 style='margin-left:36.0pt'><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 style='margin-left:36.0pt'><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 style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><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 style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><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 style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Kevin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><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 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 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'>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>
<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>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:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><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:72.0pt'><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:72.0pt'><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:72.0pt'><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:72.0pt'><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:72.0pt'><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:72.0pt'><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:72.0pt'><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:72.0pt'><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:72.0pt'><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:72.0pt'><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:108.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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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:108.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>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:108.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>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:108.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>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:108.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>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:108.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>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:108.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>Kevin Murray<o:p></o:p></p>
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