[Xerte] XOT install - down the rabbit hole

Tue Dec 1 15:48:55 GMT 2009

The strictly IIS stuff I ran across was:

- The postback to index.php when index.php is set as default directory page.

- MIME types (although I subsequently removed the my mappings and it worked anyway. My ISP must have them on there already).

- The upload.php issue with REQUEST_URI.

I think these issues are version dependent though.
i.e. the gen I read said the postback issue is IIS4 and 5.

Dave

Subject: RE: [Xerte] XOT install - down the rabbit hole
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:14:17 +0000
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

This would be a really good week to get to the bottom of this. The
problem for us is we don’t use IIS, so can’t easily test it. Pat is busily
writing up a load of technical documentation right now to cover installing
toolkits, chapter and verse and IIS is obviously a consideration, and I’d like
to see it included in the docs. 

I also thought we had it working on IIS somewhere?

J

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read

Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:02 PM

To: Xerte discussion list

Subject: RE: [Xerte] XOT install - down the rabbit hole

I
couldn’t get XOT working on IIS last time I tried. Installed ok, logs-on ok
using the local auth but then not much else works.  When “editing” the
learning object most of the buttons aren’t clickable.

See
for yourself: http://elearning.net.marjon.ac.uk/rlo/

username:
jblogs

password:
test123

Anyone
else come across this issue? 

Adam

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley

Sent: 01 December 2009 14:43

To: Xerte discussion list

Subject: RE: [Xerte] XOT install - down the rabbit hole

I just googled and got

http://davidwalsh.name/iis-php-server-request_uri

Which has the same code in,
but doesn’t explain why IIS fails.

We’ve definitely installed in
on IIS before – Ron isn’t one of yours IIS?

But the php page says 

“The *only* way to make
Request_URI work as a 100% Apache-Compliant server variable on IIS/Windows is
to use an Isapi Filter - as documented at http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/291
. The various steps mentioned below *completely* fail when a rewrite engine is
employed, since IIS will *never* return a non-existent path (i.e. the actual
pretty-URI used) via its server variables. 

This also applies to accessing index.php via a folder.

For instance, calls made to /folder/ will appear as
/folder/index.php and not /folder/.

The fix is to use the ISAPI filter provided at http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/291

You don't have to modify any of the actual scripts once this
filter is in place - it automatically intercepts calls to REQUEST_URI and
replaces them with the actual user-entered path.”

Which is a bit erm………

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: 01 December 2009 11:01

To: Xerte list

Subject: RE: [Xerte] XOT install - down the rabbit hole

Tested a few variations and seems to be good.

Checked the install files and that seems to be the only instance of
REQUEST_URI.

Not sure if those additional lines beggar anything on the Unix/Linux side of
things.

Thanks Patrick.

Dave

From:
d_b_burnett at hotmail.com

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Subject: RE: [Xerte] XOT install - down the rabbit hole

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:13:03 -0500

Tarnation!

Found it. I must be one of the few working off IIS or something.

IIS has an issue with REQUEST_URI.

It just silently fails.

I added this to upload.php:

if (!isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))

{

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = substr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],1 );

if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].='?'.$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; }

}

Away to the races...

Subject:
RE: [Xerte] XOT install - down the rabbit hole

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:12:57 +0000

From: Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Anywhere after <?

And before ?>

Click on the link in question
on the LHS and then look in the lower box on the RHS

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: 30 November 2009 14:12

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] XOT install - down the rabbit hole

Thanks Patrick.

Where in upload.php should the line go and where should it appear in interface.

Tried it and got nothing on screen I could see. 

Subject:
RE: [Xerte] XOT install - down the rabbit hole

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:57:16 +0000

From: Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk

To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

Did you put the
print_r($_SERVER) into the upload page?

From:
xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: 30 November 2009 13:45

To: Xerte list

Subject: RE: [Xerte] XOT install - down the rabbit hole

>It only appears
“truncated” as the upload data is provided in other variables (rlovariable for
example).

Ah. Thanks.

>What did fiddler show you?

http://www.hipgnosys.com/xerte_ot/index.php

http://www.hipgnosys.com/xerte_ot/edit.php?template_id=9

http://www.hipgnosys.com/xerte_ot/USER-FILES/9-Dave-Nottingham/preview.xml?myvar=1259588415664

http://www.hipgnosys.com/xerte_ot/modules/xerte/engine/upload.php?path=USER-FILES/9-Dave-Nottingham/media/

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