[Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code

Tue Mar 24 12:25:50 GMT 2015

> dont I've ever not seen the errors on running / for the first time since
that merge.<

Hi John
yes me neither. I seem to recall that was an attempt by David Goodwin to
avoid any need for setup at all but I've never got that to work and I agree
it should be a choice rather than imposed. Obviously if it doesn't work or
is problematic on different configurations it should probably be removed
altogether.

I've wondered if we should instead distribute an updated version of maxos
but just xos! Perhaps part of our planned release. I have all sorts of
variants of XAMPP some with multiple versions of Moodle, Mahara, Xerte etc
but I think a simple Xerte only version with the next release together with
Xerte/Apereo branding etc might be a good idea. I'd be happy to work on that
but as far as I'm aware xampp is GPLv2 so does that cause a problem?

Then aside from licensing the thing that's always prevented me from doing
this anyway is the inferred support. Thomas and RSC-e obviously provided
that for MAXOS where possible but if we were going to share our 'project
version now' we'd need to agree to support as a community.

Thoughts?

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[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 24 March 2015 12:04
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code

Hi Ron

Yes I think the sqllite stuff messed up the process a bit, I dont I've ever
not seen the errors on running / for the first time since that merge.

Should the / index.php really be making any changes other than to run /setup
if no database found. I'd probably rather see any setup of databases done in
/setup with the user explicitly being given the option of choosing sqllite
etc...

John

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-------- Original message --------
From: Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
Date: 24/03/2015 11:51 (GMT+00:00)
To: 'For Xerte technical developers' <xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code

I do always run the full install but just to clarify I also always visit
/setup too and like Tom do that I didn't get any errors.

If I were to just visit localhost/xerte rather than localhost/xerte/setup I
do get errors but I think there have been there since 2.1 too and from
memory relate to the sqllite stuff? Haven't ever got that to work.

Ron

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[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 24 March 2015 11:46
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code

Hi Tom

Yes thats the behaviour that I was getting. I tried the full server setup
(on xampp) first and it didnt work. I prefer that as I have more control
over the setup and I know Ron always uses it too. Got a load of errors and
then tried the xampp setup and that did work fine.

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-------- Original message --------
From: Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl>
Date: 23/03/2015 15:13 (GMT+00:00)
To: For Xerte technical developers <xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code

Hmmm...

What I did was:
1.  install latest xampp
2. download unstable from community website 3. unzip that in the
xertetoolkits folder of xampp 4. Start localhost/xertetoolkits (it gives me
errors, I will look into that) 5. Start localhost/xertetoolkits/setup 6.
Choose xampp install

It seems to work fine.

Step 6 doesn't work in IE11, I'll lok into that as well.

Regards,

Tom

Fay Cross schreef op 20-3-2015 om 13:05:
> Ok, I'll do that next time
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom 
> Reijnders
> Sent: 20 March 2015 11:59
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code
>
> The unstable zip is rebuilt automatically every night if there has 
> been a
commit. For installation testing,  would rather you use the .zip file.
>
> Fay Cross schreef op 20-3-2015 om 12:38:
>> Yes, straight from github.
>>
>> I've just checked and it's the most recent version of xampp (5.6.3)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron 
>> Mitchell
>> Sent: 20 March 2015 11:35
>> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code
>>
>> I never click the xampp button only ever do the full install option
simply because that's what has to be done on remote servers.
>> I'm sure I've installed afressh recently but there are obviously 
>> regular
changes and I've just been pulling those direct from git.
>> I'll test a fresh install too but but it's possible the version of 
>> xampp
is at play here too?
>> Just to clarify we're talking about testing this with the codebase 
>> from
github not a download from the community site?
>> Ron
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay 
>> Cross
>> Sent: 20 March 2015 11:20
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom 
>> Reijnders
>> Sent: 20 March 2015 11:17
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code
>>
>> Sigh....
>>
>> I'll give it a go this weekend... :-)
>>
>> Smith, John schreef op 20-3-2015 om 12:09:
>>> Not sure, there's been a lot of merges recently so it's possible 
>>> that the
>> installer has become screwed... most likely Tom or Ron will be 
>> copying
the develop files over an existing install so setup has not necessarily been
run in a while...
>>> Regards,
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>>> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross 
>>> [Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk]
>>> Sent: 20 March 2015 11:04
>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code
>>>
>>> Hmm, maybe it's a problem with my XAMPP then? I went straight to 
>>> setup and
>> selected xampp install straight away.
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>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of 
>>> Smith, John
>>> Sent: 20 March 2015 10:51
>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code
>>>
>>> Hi Fay,
>>>
>>> I installed from develop a week ago and the full install gave me 
>>> loads of
>> errors so I clicked the xampp install and it went through fine. I 
>> checked
out github develop straight to the webserver folder and then just ran setup.
>>> Oh also, I went to index.html initially and it gave loads of errors 
>>> and
>> had to navigate to /setup/ manually so that initial redirect bit 
>> didn't
work either.
>>> Regards,
>>>
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>>> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross 
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>>> Sent: 20 March 2015 10:48
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>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Problems with XAMPP install of develop code
>>>
>>> I've done a fresh install of the develop code in XAMPP and am 
>>> getting some errors. I'm not sure if they're Toolkits or XAMPP 
>>> related (newly installed XAMPP too)
>>>
>>> Firstly, on the 'Toolkits has been installed' page I get these errors:
>>>
>>> Sorry, The query CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS has failed. MySQL 
>>> reports the following error - 1064 - You have an error in your SQL 
>>> syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server 
>>> version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1 Sorry, The 
>>> query USE has failed. MySQL reports the following error - 1064 - You 
>>> have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds 
>>> to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at 
>>> line 1
>>>
>>> Then, if I create a project and try to edit it I get stuck on the 
>>> loading
>> screen with the following errors:
>>> SyntaxError: malformed hexadecimal character escape sequence 
>>> (edithtml.php line 118) 
>>> mediavariable="C:\xampp\htdocs\xertetoolkits/USER-FILES/1-guest2-Not
>>> t
>>> i
>>> ngham/media/";
>>>
>>> If I change $rlo_path in edithtml.php to reference 
>>> users_file_area_short
>> rather than users_file_area_full (like it does in the Flash version) 
>> then
the editor loads.
>>> But then this seems to cause a problem with uploading files - I get 
>>> the
>> error 'Invalid backend configuration. Readable volumes not available.'
when the import media window opens.
>>> Any ideas? Does anyone else running it on XAMPP have these problems?
>>>
>>> The flash editor works fine.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Fay
>>>
>>>
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