[Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess again!...

Wed May 8 18:03:20 BST 2013

Hi

I was just alerted to the fact that /play_html5_id links I'd previously shared to lo's  are no longer working :-(

I can live with that and update where I can but it also means that links that Alistair and others have shared previously are also currently broken. I know over time this will fade away as new links are shared etc but this was something that we wanted to avoid if possible.

Here's an example link that Alistair shared previously on the lists which doesn't work at the moment:

http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_html5_300

It obviously does now work via http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_300 and http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_300&engine=html

But is there a change to the .htaccess rule I can make to still allow http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_html5_300 to work?

The previous rule for this was: rewriteRule ^play_html5_([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ /xerte/play_html5.php?template_id=$1

But http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_html5.php?template_id=300 no longer works so the shorter version doesn't either :-(

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 28 April 2013 15:59
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

Hi Tom

I just looked at the export links the install without htaccess was generating via Fiddler and changed the order accordingly e.g. What position template_id appears

Cheers

Ron

Sent from my iPhone

On 28 Apr 2013, at 14:15, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:

Only if you replace the /xerte with * again. 

And, please note, it solves the play and preview differently than your suggestion.

For play your  suggestion accepts play_126_javascript, whereas my solution accepts play_126?engine=javascript. The latter because that's the way the wizard works now.

play_126 will choose the engine based on the default engine chosen by the author.

Tom

P.S.  I don't understand why your modifications work, when the original line doesn't, but I am glad it does.. :-)

Op 28-4-2013 14:51, Pat @ Pgogy schreef:

Is the htaccess.conf ok

Also the play/preview rules?

On 28 Apr 2013, at 13:50, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Tom

no need. :-)

The attached works for me!

Basically changed the order of things in a couple of the export rules:

previous line 54

rewriteRule ^export_full_([0-9]+)?(.*)$ /xerte/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?full=true&template_id=$1&scorm=false&$2

new

rewriteRule ^export_full_([0-9]+)?(.*)$ /xerte/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?full=true&scorm=false&template_id=$1&$2

previous 70

rewriteRule ^scorm_rich_([0-9]+)?(.*)$ /xerte/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?template_id=$1&data=rich&scorm=true&$2

new

rewriteRule ^scorm_rich_([0-9]+)?(.*)$ /xerte/website_code/php/scorm/export.php?data=rich&scorm=true&template_id=$1&$2

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 28 April 2013 11:38
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

Ok, I'll have a look, at why those don't work. I'll try to set it up on one of my installations. Bit easier to test... ;-)

Tom

Op 28-4-2013 11:39, Ron Mitchell schreef:

Hi Tom

my apologies. I just tracked back through my messages and missed your updated .htaccess partly because you'd renamed it as .txt but that's no excuse for not reading your message properly! :-(

I've just put that in place and it seems deployment and 2004 export works but not archive or 1.2?

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Being dragged out now so will be offline for an hour or two :-0

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 28 April 2013 10:22
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

Ron,

Apparently you didn't receive my reply on April 25?

It oncluded a version that should have a working export for you. It's different than the one you have attached here, so I'll post it again.

Tom

Op 28-4-2013 11:03, Ron Mitchell schreef:

I'm not sure how correct the attached is as it's something I edited over time while 1.9 was being developed. But it worked including export until the engine= changes and I know Tom was going to look at this further but probably hasn't had time yet. The normal play and preview work but export doesn't.

Tom suggested the current line 12:

rewriteRule ^preview_([A-Za-z0-9]+)?(.*)$ /xerte/preview.php?template_id=$1&$2 

and that enables Ctrl + Play to toggle the engine and that works but I haven't been able to find a solution for export.

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of xerte at pgogywebstuff.com
Sent: 27 April 2013 23:58
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

I have no idea what the export links are now, or what is in the htaccess

If you send the links and the export reg exps I will have a look

Pgogy Webstuff http://www.pgogywebstuff.com

Makers of Web things of a fair to middling quality

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Subject:

[Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

Hi Pat/Tom/all

is there a solution to this for Export before any of the engine changes Pat has listed are made?

We've got a real problem on one of the Techdis installations now where I can't turn .htaccess use off because it would installantly break all the links to LO's Alistair and co have shared but at the same time at the moment with .htaccess on none of the export options work. I don't really want to revert the install back to before Tom's engine= changes but I've tried a few variations of rules to get export to work without success so far. Even if only archive export worked for now that would be better than no export working.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

Ron 

BTW am I right in thinking the engine.fla still needs to be kept as Flash 8? I no longer have a Flash 8 install and wary of making any changes in CS4.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of xerte at pgogywebstuff.com
Sent: 25 April 2013 23:51
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

Hello,

HTaccess debugging

One, the default engine link in the wizard *to me* doesn't follow the HTaccess approach

So here are some new HTaccess rules

These will work on a localhost/xertetoolkts install if 

rewriteBase /xertetoolkits is on

rewriteRule ^preview_([A-Za-z0-9]+)_([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ preview.php?template_id=$1&linkID=$2

rewriteRule ^preview_([A-Za-z0-9]+)_([A-Za-z]+)$ preview.php?template_id=$1&engine=$2

rewriteRule ^preview_([A-Za-z0-9]+)_([A-Za-z]+)_([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ preview.php?template_id=$1&engine=$2&linkID=$3

In the wizard the following toggle needs to apply (I don't have flash on this computer)

If apache is set the link becomes

preview_idnumber

if control is held down then then link is

preview_idnumber_linkID

if control is held down then the link is

preview_idnumber_enginename (enginename is always text only  - no numbers and no ascii)

if control and shift are both held down

preview_idnumber_enginename_linkID 

Note enginename comes before linkID

I don't have flash to fix this at home, but if some one can put the ifs into the wizard that should fix it

Pgogy Webstuff http://www.pgogywebstuff.com

Makers of Web things of a fair to middling quality

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:18:41 +0100

Subject:

[Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

I am now working in this area, let me see

On 25 Apr 2013, at 20:40, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:

Ehmm, can I have your version of the .htacces?

I mean how does you normal preview look?

I don't understand the /xerte/preview

The difference should be the ?(.*) before the $ and the &$2 at the end.

Op 25-4-2013 20:44, Ron Mitchell schreef:

Hi Tom

rewriteRule ^preview_([A-Za-z0-9]+)?(.*)$ */preview.php?template_id=$1&$2 worked for Ctrl + Play preview although I obviously had to change it to /xerte/preview.php rather than */preview.php

I tried applying the same principal to one of the export rules but that didn't work - probably due to my lack of knowledge of regular expressions etc :-(

Happy to test export additions?

I think ideally we need a definitive \setup\htaccess.conf for people to use for reference.

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 25 April 2013 10:11
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

No, the wizard tries to load preview.php and play.php, but it doesn't add any sizes to the url, like the xerte play and preview do.

The issue with .htaccess and xerte preview is that now you can have url parameters added to the .htaccess urls, like play_126?engine=other, and the rules don't handle the ?engine=other properly. I sent a fix for Ron to try by PM, because I couldn't send anything to the list for some 30 minutes.

Tom

Op 25-4-2013 11:03, Julian Tenney schreef:

OK. Does it impact the re-write rule? At this point I’d rather just make it work, than be graceful… what I think it means is that for bootstrap tempaltes, the url the wizard tries to load will be preview_sitephp and play_site.php? I’m not sure if it affects what you’re talking about or not?

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 25 April 2013 10:01
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

I didn't change it (combine preview of site and xerte) because the url parameters were different, and I felt we hadn't time to test changes thoroughly enough, so at the moment I only changed the absolute minimum.

Tom

Op 25-4-2013 10:09, Julian Tenney schreef:

In the wizard (I think you mean) is code that launches the site template that does something along the lines of (if templateruntime = ‘preview_sitephp’) blah which launches the site template in the preview_site page. If you remember, way back when, when we originally anticipated different runtimes, we had a runtime param in the xwd file to point to alternative renderers for content. If you want to look it’s in function preview()

I would have thought that when the recent modularisation stuff was done, this might have been made redundant, or handled differently, and maybe this code should change? But I don’t have enough sight of the other side of the coin to know how?

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat @ Pgogy 
Sent: 24 April 2013 20:35
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: .htaccess

Looks like something is up in the engine as well?

On 24 Apr 2013, at 19:41, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:

Ah ok. olet me work on the rewriteRule, because it doesn't argin-bottom-alt:auto">if control and shift are both held down

Just been testing this a bit more and for instance with the editor open clicking play to preview works fine with Apache/.htaccess enabled or not but clicking Ctrl + Play with Apache/.htaccess enabled results in http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/preview_310 <http://vlejisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/preview_310&engine=other> &engine=other and so doesn't work ends up with a page not found

What needs to change or be added to the .htaccess?

e.g.

NETGEAR VMDG485 NETGEAR http://www.netgear.com/ VMDG485 VMDG485 VMDG485 http://www.virginmedia.com/ (unimplemented) uuid:upnp-WANConnectionDevice-1_0-20e52aba60fb (unimplemented) urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANIPConnection:1 urn:upnp-org:serviceId:WANIPConn1 /WANIPConnection.xml /WANIPConnection /WANIPConnection 

I think this is an important issue for those using .htaccess previously (e.g. Nottingham) because if Apache was switched off via management existing links would obviously break. But at the moment with Apache enabled I don't think export and Ctrl + Play works.

HTH

Cheers

Ron

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