[Xerte-dev] Re: testing results

[Pat L (pgogy)]

Because my email account for this list has xerte in the name?


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

> It's only when a reply is sent to you Pat. Like this...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith | Learning Technologist
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> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat L (pgogy) [
> xerte at pgogywebstuff.com]
> Sent: 04 April 2014 10:17
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing results
>
> I use a gmail proxy for this account (so maybe I get sent of behalf of
> stuff?)
>
> Had no email from John though
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk<mailto:
> J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk>> wrote:
> I've notice that before... it's done it for ages, with Pat anyway...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith | Learning Technologist
> Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences |
> Glasgow Caledonian University
> Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
> ________________________________________
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>]
> Sent: 04 April 2014 09:26
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing results
>
> Shouldn't have.
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
> Sent: 03 April 2014 18:09
> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing results
>
> Also have the list settings changed? Just replied and hit send and noticed
> the reply when direct to Pat as well as the list and I hadn't selected
> reply to all.
>
> From: Ron Mitchell [mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk<mailto:
> ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>]
> Sent: 03 April 2014 18:07
> To: 'xerte at pgogywebstuff.com<mailto:xerte at pgogywebstuff.com>'; 'For Xerte
> technical developers'
> Subject: RE: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing results
>
> My understanding is that this was accidental rather than deliberate (might
> be wrong about that) and the page shown if an installation exists doesn't
> contain any links. Obviously the general guidance is to remove or at least
> rename the setup folder after installation. I know things should perhaps be
> more robust that that but I can't see how this was accidental really.
>
> Having tested this I'm more concerned about the session errors but not
> sure after what revision these were introduced.
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk><mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>> [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Pat L (pgogy)
> Sent: 03 April 2014 17:34
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: testing results
>
> what if you hit a later page though - one of the other setup php folders?
>
> Also what drop table commands are in the sql file?
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk
> <mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk><mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk<mailto:
> ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>>> wrote:
> Hi all
> I'm sending this to the dev list but I posted a completely separate
> message this morning which still doesn't seem to have got through so
> sending this bcc to Julian too because it's partly due to some testing due
> to an issue reported about re-running setup breaking an install.
>
> I've done some testing (via xampp for now) and as previously when there
> have been multiple contributions over a period of time it's a bit scary!
> (But not because of the setup question)
>
> I downloaded xertetoolkits_2.1 Version:2.1 Last update  2014-03-14 from
> the community site. (BTW Tom the unstable download doesn't seem to work?)
> Also I downloaded from the community site because that's the most likely
> place from where the community will download rather than direct from git.
>
> Installed on xampp using the xampp option tested creation of a quick lo
> then revisited setup and get the following message:
>
> [cid:image001.jpg at 01CF4FE8.05720840]
> So if xampp quick install option chosen doesn't seem possible to overwrite
> db by revisiting setup with this revision which is obviously a good thing.
>
> Repeated the process with full install option and same result e.g.
> revisiting setup prompts that the install already exists.
>
> Obviously deleting database.php means that setup can be re-run.
>
> So not sure how someone was able to break a working install via setup if
> the version installed included this detection.
>
> But the scary bit is that it seems from my testing that this revision is
> not reliable e.g. one minute I can create an LO and the next minute I get
> one of two errors when trying to create a new lo:
> Session ID not set
> or
> Invalid template_id (could not find in DB)
>
> Does this not happen for others?
>
> Ron
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