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

Wed Mar 25 11:09:50 GMT 2015

Hi Ron

From what Tom has said unstable zip should lag develop by 1 day at most so unless its not picking up all the files we should be testing the same thing so that is strange that both Fay and Julian are seeing the same issues...

Regards

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health and Life Sciences

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Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:

I'm using a Windows 7 laptop most of the time and on my main installation of
XAMPP which is the portable version on an external HDD rather than directly
installed (so I can use anywhere on any Windows machine - in theory) I have
various copies of Xerte installed e.g. 2.1, develop, editor (with updates
pulled direct from git using TortoiseGit) and an install from the community
site download.

However I had a separate reason to create a new xampp copy with latest
versions of Moodle and Mahara so tested the community site unstable download
with a full install on that which seemed to work ok. However I did notice an
issue with only seeing the top banner and part of a drop down top left but
after refreshing all was fine. I think I noticed that again anad again
refresh worked but this may have been browser cache because after restarting
the machine the next day all was fine.

By default I'm testing with IE10 and Chrome and only occasionally Firefox.
Creating a project has been fine throughout.

There are obviously lots of variables here e.g. what exactly are we testing
or trying to replicate:
platform?
xampp version, also portable or installed?
develop from git or unstable zip?
browser?
Full, /setup, or xampp install method?

There shouldn't be any need to change file paths - I certainly haven't had
to do that.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross
Sent: 25 March 2015 10:47
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code

I am, I'm not sure about Julian (he's not around today).

I'll have a play around this afternoon to see if I can work out what's
happening. I have got it working for now by hardcoding some of the file
paths in edithtml.php but it's not ideal as I have to change them if I want
to switch between projects.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 25 March 2015 10:41
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code

Are you both using latest xampp? Is it possible to uninstall xampp and try
an older version? Its possible that something in windows xampp is causing
this and changes haven't made it into Mac yet due to architecture
differences or because mac can sometimes be secondary to windows in terms of
development priority...

Regards

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health and Life Sciences

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"Smith, John" <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi Fay

From memory (although not what Tom has suggested but this process has always
seemed to work for me) here is what I did and edit and create worked for me.

Downloaded and installed xampp (mac)
Downloaded and installed Sourcetree (mac)

  I had my mac reimaged after a crash so had to do these steps but you may
not or probably use different software...

Used Sourcetree to checkout xerte straight into the xampp htdocs folder into
a 'xerte' named folder Changed the permissions on the 5 required folders Run
xampp and started server and mysql Opened browser to localhost/xerte and got
load of errors Changed address to localhost/xerte/setup and it loaded fine
Tried full server setup and got errors Then went back to setup and ran xampp
setup and all went through fine

Went to localhost/xerte and workspace loaded Created and edited a lo, all
worked fine

Now, although not recommended practice, sourcetree allows me to switch
between branches of xerte flawlessly and if I make changes I can commit them
straight from there to github.

I'm off ill just now but from memory the only issues I got were errors on /
initially and on setup when trying to do a full install...

John

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-------- Original message --------
From: Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: 25/03/2015 09:37 (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

So, when you have all tried this and it works does that include trying to
create or edit a project? Because that's the point that it completely stops
working for me and Julian - it never gets past the loading screen.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 24 March 2015 11:46
To: For Xerte technical developers
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.

John

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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-----
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [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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>>> Room A250, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences |
>>> Glasgow Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
>>>
>>> Please address ALL support requests to hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk where one of
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all jobs are completed as promptly as possible.
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [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.
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [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,
>>>
>>> John Smith | Learning Technologist
>>> Room A250, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences |
>>> Glasgow Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
>>>
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>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross
>>> [Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk]
>>> Sent: 20 March 2015 10:48
>>> To: Xerte Dev Mailing List
>>> 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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