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

Pat (Pgogy) info at pgogywebstuff.com
Wed Mar 25 11:23:42 GMT 2015 

Windows 7 puts XAMPP into c:\users | c:\program files\ sometimes - old 
XAMPP paths changed?

On 2015-03-25 07:20, Fay Cross wrote:
> Hmm, line breaks disappeared. A more readable version...
> 
> Windows 7
> Xampp v5.6.3 installed
> Develop code from git
> Firefox
> Xampp install - went straight to localhost/xertetoolkits/setup
> 
> -----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 11:16
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code
> 
> For me:
> 
> platform? Windows 7
> xampp version, also portable or installed? V5.6.3 installed develop
> from git or unstable zip? Develop from git browser? FF Full, /setup,
> or xampp install method? Xampp install - went straight to
> localhost/xertetoolkits/setup rather than trying just
> localhost/xertetoolkits first
> 
> I assume Julian's was similar - possibly different browser.
> 
> It all looks ok until you try to open the editor.
> 
> -----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 11:10
> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Problems with XAMPP install of develop code
> 
> 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
> 
> Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII
> 
> 
> "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
> 
> Sent from Samsung tablet
> 
> Please send all enquiries to our shared Blended Learning inbox at
> hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk and one of the Learning Technologists will respond.
> 
> 
> 
> -------- 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
> 
> Sent from Samsung tablet
> 
> Please send all enquiries to our shared Blended Learning inbox at
> hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk and one of the Learning Technologists will respond.
> 
> 
> 
> -------- 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,
>>>> 
>>>> John Smith | Learning Technologist
>>>> 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
>>>> the
>>> School Learning Technologists will pick up the job. This will ensure
>>> that
> 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
>>>> 
>>>> Please address ALL support requests to hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk where one of
>>>> the
>>> School Learning Technologists will pick up the job. This will ensure
>>> that
> 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 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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