[Xerte] Installing Toolkits

[Julian Tenney]

The beta programme for toolkits version 1 is now closed, and we are just
making the final finishing touches to the software. We will have it
finished and ready for you sometime in the ext couple of weeks.

The current files on the website are a preview release - they are very
close to the finished version, but have a few issues that prevent an
easy install right now. These files were made available so we could test
it on other systems, and we've had some really useful feedback. We have
sight of a few things that need sorting out, so thanks to those that
have tried to install it and let us know what has happened.

As soon as we have v1.0 ready for download we'll let you know. In the
meantime, many thanks for all the feedback we've had over the last six
months. We're really excited about v1.0 and we know a lot of you are
too, so thanks for bearing with us - we are nearly there!

J



-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Costas
Calcanis
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:08 PM
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Installing Toolkits

Hello,

I've started installing Xerte Online Toolkits (v0.91 beta) by following
the instructions at
http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/pipermail/xerte/2008-September/000730.html
. However, so far my attempts to complete the installation have been
unsuccessful. I seek for some advice and guidance.

Here's what I've done so far:

1. Install XAMPP (Success!)
- Download xampp from
http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-win32-1.6.7-installer.ex
e;
- Run the installer, choosing to install apache and mysql as services
- Open the xamp control panel and stop apache and mysql
- Goto c:\xampp\apache\conf\httpconf.conf file
- Remove the comment ('#') from the following line: #LoadModule
rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
- Restart apache and mysql in the xampp control panel

2. Install Xerte Toolkits (Success!)
- Download and install the Xerte Online Toolkits from
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/downloads/toolkits.zip
- Create a folder called 'toolkits' in c:\xampp\htdocs\
- Extract all the files from the zip to c:\xampp\htdocs\toolkits\

3. Setup Xerte Toolkits (Failed!)
- Navigate in your browser to http://localhost/toolkits/setup/ <-- Done!
- On the first page click 'next'  <-- Which one, there are two Next
buttons; the "For XAMPP People" isn't is a dead link xampp.php. Followed
the second Next button pointing to config_setup.php
- On the second page click 'next'. These first two pages contain
important information for any sys admins setting up toolkits on a n
production server. <-- Done!
- On the third page, enter 'localhost' as the host, 'root' as the
database name, leave the password blank, enter 'toolkits' for the
database name and leave the prefix field blank <-- Done!
- On the next page enter 'root' for the database account and leave the
password blank <-- Done!
- On the next page, enter 'NULL' in each field <-- On this page
(page3.php) there are too many fields (surely can't expect to enter NULL
to every single text box)! When I clicked on Submit Query I got many
warnings and Install complete message (see attached file). 
- On the next page, click 'next' <-- No such option available.
- On the following page, enter 'NULL' in each field <-- No such option
available.
- On the following page, enter 'NULL' in each field <-- No such option
available.


When I opened the Xerte toolkits page (http://localhost/toolkits/) I got
the following error messages:


Warning: mysql_select_db() [function.mysql-select-db]: Access denied for
user 'ODBC'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in
C:\xampp\htdocs\toolkits\config.php on line 36

Warning: mysql_select_db() [function.mysql-select-db]: A link to the
server could not be established in C:\xampp\htdocs\toolkits\config.php
on line 36


Any help is much appreaciated

Regards,


Costas Calcanis
E-Learning
Redbridge College


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