[Xerte-dev] Re: Xerte Install

[Tom Reijnders]

I fixed issue 2 yesterday evening. Too many people ran into that one.


Op 4-5-2013 11:21, Pat @ Pgogy schreef:
> 2 is simple enough to fix
>
> 3 is a problem - would want want the maximum size to be a php ini 
> limit, or a XOT specific limit? Different sites on the same server?
>
> On 3 May 2013, at 22:09, "Thomas Rochford" 
> <thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk 
> <mailto:thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk>> wrote:
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>> Good Evening Tom,
>>
>> First of all a Big Thank you for your work. As a small gesture of 
>> appreciation I have produced a document describing how to upload 
>> Learning Objects directly, via FTP, webDav etc. If you think it will 
>> be useful, please put it somewhere appropriate on the Community web 
>> site. It would be good if you (and others?) looked it over, in case I 
>> have made some mistakes or you feel things could have been explained 
>> a little better.
>>
>> It was an 'interesting' experience, and I learnt a number of lessons 
>> that may help others.
>>
>> 1)My website is hosted in Germany (I believe) by  1&1 Internet. They 
>> offer quite a restricted interface compared with some others that I 
>> have seen and I think that there is a ridiculously long period in 
>> which pages are cached by the server. For no reason that I can think 
>> of, Tom's new code (replacing the 'fault' occasioned by not having a 
>> temporary upload file specified in php.ini with a 'warning') did not 
>> seem to work. Furthermore any changes that I made (e.g. trying to 
>> FORCE it to go to page1.php by commenting out just about everything 
>> else), didn't work either, so I suspect the output had been cached by 
>> the server (I flushed the browser cache). So I just went straight to 
>> page1.php. It might be a good idea to add a link to this at the 
>> bottom, rather than using the 'submit' button.
>> In any event generating a fault or warning of this kind is probably 
>> not necessary. Because I wanted to do a clean installation in order 
>> to test it out, I had to re-import my existing LOs as .zip files and 
>> they all worked well, provided they were less than the ridiculously 
>> low level set by 1&1. But of that more anon...
>>
>> 2)The next problem I encountered was to do with database.php. 1&1 do 
>> not allow you to choose the name of your database and give it a 
>> thoroughly unmemorable and easily mistyped name and the same for the 
>> managing account. I tried to copy and paste them from the web page 
>> but, in doing so, inadvertently copied an extra space at the end of 
>> the database name. Although I went back via the browser and 
>> re-entered it correctly, the installer still had the pesky space and 
>> I had to get rid of it by editing database.php. Would it be possible 
>> to overwrite any existing database.php with a new one every time the 
>> data is re-submitted , because I'm sure other users could also make 
>> this mistake.
>>
>> 3)The final problem I had was uploading some LOs. I'm sure it was 
>> size related, but the generic failure message about only accepting 
>> zip files threw me for a few minutes. I would like to suggest that 
>> the upload script checks to make sure that the size of the object to 
>> be uploaded is less than 'max_file_uploadsize' (or whatever the php 
>> variable is called), before attempting the upload and warns the user 
>> that they will have to transfer the data manually if it is.
>>
>> Because of problem #3 I documented the process of FTP'ing data 
>> directly up to Toolkits as described in the attached document.
>>
>> I should point out that this could be quite an issue because many 
>> smaller organisations are either using the free JANET-hosted web 
>> servers, or other commercially hosted ones which have locked down 
>> php.ini files which they will not change, so some or all of these 
>> points may have relevance to a significant number of other users.
>>
>> Apologies for the length.
>>
>> Kindest regards, Thomas
>>
>>
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>> <Manual Uploads to Xerte.docx>
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