[Xerte] Re: Upgrade/reinstall XOT

Tue May 3 11:06:06 BST 2011

The Xerte list address.
So we can all in unison say "Check your MIME types".

From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 10:49:42 +0100
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Upgrade/reinstall XOT

Likewise ;-) What else would you like in here? I don’t know too much – the file url is about it. Can hint at some reasons, but there are a few. Mime types is the most common.  From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 03 May 2011 10:46
To: Xerte list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Upgrade/reinstall XOT 
Descriptive error messages are always a handy thing.
I've just never had a need for them in my own software.
:->

> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 10:32:54 +0100
> From: patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Upgrade/reinstall XOT
> 
> much as i appreciate the furiousness, I was half-suggesting that if we
> know we are online, we know the file exists, then the 404 pretty much
> means "no mime types" so perhaps the wizard / engine could display an
> error to that effect, rather than hanging?
> 
> Yours in furiousity
> 
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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