[Xerte] LDAP settings

Wed Feb 10 13:41:23 GMT 2010

Take a peek at database.php off the server and see if the db username/pw are as expected.

Dave   

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> From: peter.hartley at kedst.ac.uk
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:22:33 +0000
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP settings
>
> HI
>
> I do not want to use ldap but since we have Active Directory I am trying in a last effort to get it to work that way.
>
> But having just downloaded the latest version from your web site all I get now from page 4 of the installation is for all the inserts:
>
> The sitedetails site ID query insert into sitedetails(site_id) VALUES ( "1") has failed due to No database selected
>
> I am using the same method that worked earlier this week which went straight through. Has there been a change to the setup?
>
>
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> Peter Hartley
> College Information Systems Manager
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 10 February 2010 12:54
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP settings
>
> So now I'm confused. You have LDAP or not? Earlier you said you didn't /
> couldn't use it?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Hartley,
> Peter
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:21 PM
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP settings
>
> Hi
>
> I have an AD ldap based on 'kedst.ac.uk' with staff under an OU Staff,
> so what do I put in:
>
> LDAP_filter - ?
> Ldap_host - I assume the IP number of a domain controller
> Ldap_port - I assume 389
> Bind_pwd - ?
> Basedn - is that dc=uk,dc=ac,dc=kedst
> Bind_dn - ?
>
> For Moodle we use an external MySQL database which contains the
> necessary fields.
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> Peter Hartley
> College Information Systems Manager
> King Edward VI College
> Lower High Street
> Stourbridge
> West Midlands
> DY8 1TD
>
> Phone: +44-(0) 1384 398100
> Fax: +44-(0) 1384 398123
> email: its at kedst.ac.uk
> web: www.kedst.ac.uk
>
> Delivery or sat nav address:
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> Duke Street
> Stourbridge
> West Midlands
> DY8 1YR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 10 February 2010 12:04
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP settings
>
> Can you tell us what information is missing? That would be very helpful.
>
> How do you authenticate your moodle users?
>
> The moodle patch was created by Ron Mitchell - I need to Ron to chip in
> if there are problems with it.
>
> Xerte can run on IIS. We need to understand why your own situation is
> failing.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Hartley,
> Peter
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:41 AM
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP settings
>
> I have found the installation guide very unfriendly and not supplying
> the information required to fill in table entries.
>
> The problem is that I do not know how Xerte actually works and with
> users having to logon via LDAP - which I actually do not/cannot use -
> there is little information on what to enter in LDAP fields, in say an
> Active Directory situation.
>
> I am trying to use the Moodle patch which is our preferred route and all
> goes well until I edit or preview a project at which point I get a blank
> screen. As I cannot get LDAP working I cannot logon to get a project
> created and test it out.
>
> The server I am using runs Moodle, Mediawiki and WordPress quite happily
> and these installs were fairly straightforward and we just run a
> standard setup.
>
> I am coming to the conclusion that as it stands Xerte is simply
> uninstallable in a standard Windows/IIS/MySQL/PHP environment as I
> cannot find what I have done wrong.
>
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> Peter Hartley
> College Information Systems Manager
> King Edward VI College
> Lower High Street
> Stourbridge
> West Midlands
> DY8 1TD
>
> Phone: +44-(0) 1384 398100
> Fax: +44-(0) 1384 398123
> email: its at kedst.ac.uk
> web: www.kedst.ac.uk
>
> Delivery or sat nav address:
> King Edward VI College
> Duke Street
> Stourbridge
> West Midlands
> DY8 1YR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 10 February 2010 10:17
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP settings
>
> Pat tells me he has been in dialog with you over the last week to
> resolve the issue. We'd like some feedback on why you've found this so
> difficult. There is still some confusion, because we don't store login
> data in the database.
>
> Are you using Ron Mitchell's moodle patch, and is the problem with that?
>
> Do you have any feedback on the installation guide, provided in the root
> of the zip file?
>
> Thanks,
>
> J
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Hartley,
> Peter
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:34 AM
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] LDAP settings
>
> Hi
>
> I am still trying to get Xerte to work after a week. The installation is
> difficult and required me to use phpMyAdmin to get into the database. I
> have set nothing in LDAP since we want to use Moodle to access it. You
> can set the password - and everything else - in the database as it is
> clear text.
>
> Unlike Moodle Xerte uses the database to store MySQL logon information
> and so on.
>
> If you are using IIs and get Xerte to work tell me how you did it!
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