[Xerte-dev] Re: drive problems with XOT on USB's

[Pat Lockley]

Hi Liz,

That change will work for the root_file_path in this instance - I can't
remember if changing it to that setting permanently would be a fix, or
might introduce other problems. For movable USB sticks it'd work though.

A backup script would back up the entire database, and everything in
user-files.

Are you running XAMPP on the USB stick?

Pat


On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Cowell, Elizabeth <E.Cowell at wlv.ac.uk>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Not sure where to post this so sorry if the wrong place.
>
> I've been running XOT on a USB and found that when you move your USB from
> pc to pc, it runs into problems if the drive letter changes. Basically your
> templates don't show because the scripts (eg edit.php) fail on a require
> command that looks for scripts on the wrong drive.
>
> It seems this is because it uses the root_file_path field from the
> sitedetails table in the database and I am guessing that this is only set
> when the initial setup is done.
>
> To make it fool-proof,  I've altered the config.php file to just set the
> xerte_toolkits_site variable as follows:
>
> $xerte_toolkits_site->root_file_path=dirname(__FILE__) . "/";
>
> I put this statement  after it picks up the field from sitedetails in the
> statement
>
> foreach($row as $key => $value) {
>         $xerte_toolkits_site->$key = $value;
>     }
>
> It seems to work but I'm not familiar with the XOT code. Do you think it's
> a good idea to run with this until there's a proper fix?.  (Its just I use
> XOT on my USB and kept thinking I'd lost everything when all that was
> happening was that it was being picked up as a different drive letter on my
> PC vs laptop).
>
> Also, as USB's are pretty fragile, would you suggest a backup strategy for
> users of having a .bat file to just back up their USER_FILES to a hard
> drive, on the basis that if XOT gets corrupted I can re-install, re-add
> their folders, recreate dummy templates and then copy their original LO's
> back over these for them (with the right template numbers in the file
> names).
>
> Or would you suggest also backing up other areas (the database, other XOT
> files? ) - I am not sure where all any  user specific config is held, is it
> just in the toolkits_data database or in files outside of the database?
>
> Many thanks if you can help  with any suggestions on getting around this,
>
> regards
>
> Liz Cowell
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