[Xerte] Re: Needing help! Is anyone hosting Xerte for 3rd parties?

Thu Sep 12 11:47:17 BST 2013

I also had a few permission issues later on in the installer (and in use) that slipped through the initial setup checks, but Tom has logged an issue on Github with code for a new is_writable() function that might address this issue on Windows...

I think we need a new installation guide that highlights these facts and

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

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The only difference with IIS is the urls for accessing LOs are different, but you can do this in setup

Before we released it I spent a month or so making apache optional, like a more successful General Custer

On 11 Sep 2013, at 15:23, "Smith, John" <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

> Our IT guys are the same... no Linux allowed, only virtualized IIS servers... we have XOTv2 running very happily on them under IIS...
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> Regards,
>
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health & Life Sciences
> Glasgow Caledonian University
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> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom
> Reijnders
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> You can install XOT on IIS as well.
>
> Or use XAMPP on a Windows server.
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>
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:39:03 +0000 "Stenhouse Andy"
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>> Is anyone hosting Xerte installations for 3rd parties? our IT guys
>> have nobody that will/can support us on Unix & PHP/MySQL. They've
>> gone all Microsoft here (hack, spit!) We are becoming desperate now
>> as we need to start working in Xerte v2 as we are promoting mobile learning in a big way.
>> Cheer,
>> Andy Stenhouse
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