[Xerte] Re: Upgrade/reinstall XOT

Tue May 3 10:26:24 BST 2011

It may very well have been the fact that the MIME's weren't configured *before* starting the install.
I was too furious at Pat at the time to remember exactly. ;-)

> From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 10:14:45 +0100
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Upgrade/reinstall XOT
> 
> Yeah, but I also remember a long tail of woe when he tried to install toolkits, and being a pretty bright and tenacious sort of chap, that worried me a bit... if I recall, it was because i) it was a windows server and ii) the sysadmins weren't too helpful in resolving server config issues. The issues weren't toolkits specific necessarily?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 03 May 2011 10:07
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Upgrade/reinstall XOT
> 
> Think Dave's problem was his mimetypes got removed by a sysadmin?
> 
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Julian Tenney
> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > It would probably be worth going through your install experiences and making
> > sure we have all those issues fixed, where possible, or documented at some
> > point. In the new installer, Pat wrote a heap of tests to check for a lot of
> > the common errors that find their way through into issues on this list: the
> > hope is that by running the tests, a lot of issues will be diagnosed more
> > easily,
> >
> >
> >
> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
> > Sent: 02 May 2011 22:41
> > To: Xerte list
> >
> > Subject: [Xerte] Re: Upgrade/reinstall XOT
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > I think a lot of the common crap is default.
> > It's the Xerte specific ones it doesn't recognize.
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> >
> > To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 22:26:01 +0100
> > Subject: [Xerte] Re: Upgrade/reinstall XOT
> >
> > .xwd
> >
> > .rlo
> >
> > .rlt
> >
> > .rlm
> >
> > .xml
> >
> > .swf
> >
> > should do it. Also your media (mp3, flv, images), and any other files types
> > you might be using.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
> > [d_b_burnett at hotmail.com]
> > Sent: 02 May 2011 20:53
> > To: Xerte list
> >
> > Subject: [Xerte] Re: Upgrade/reinstall XOT
> >
> > Not hacked.
> > Something the ISP did removed all the MIME types.
> > Idiots.
> >
> > Is there a complete list of MIME types that should be added?
> >
> > rlo
> > rlt
> > rlm
> >
> > ??
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
> > Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 19:24:39 +0100
> > To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > Subject: [Xerte] Re: Upgrade/reinstall XOT
> >
> > Only sitedetails and originalyemplatesdetails come prepopulated - try
> > basic.SQL in the setup folder with the dollar needing replacing with the
> > table prefix
> >
> > On 2 May 2011, at 19:05, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm thinking I'm hacked and my ISP is saying "not that we can find".
> > Is there a link or cheatsheet for reinstalling/upgrading XOT?
> > The last time was a bit painful (the "down the rabbit hole" thread).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
> >
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