[Xerte] Re: Compressed (zip) folder is invalid and LDAP errors.

[Pat L (pgogy)]

Are the ldap details in the sitedetails table?


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Jacob Yardley <j.yardley at londonmet.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Ron, we have tried a variety of users and browsers
> (FF, Chrome and IE), successfully published projects and 1 page tests all
> with the same result. Curiously our security on email detects an exe file
> in the broken zip and will not let us send it, but will let us send the
> non-broken zips I have made from the new build 2.1 server.
>
> The old current server started out quite a few versions back and has been
> upgraded to 2.0 with changes to the LDAP settings made along the way as our
> LDAP server moved. The 2.1 build is on a new VM server constructed purely
> for xerte which makes me think we missed something key in the set-up for
> LDAP to fall so flat. I did increase the php memory settings as they seemed
> low on the new install, and as I say the zip export works on 2.1.
>
> Thoughts on upgrading 2.0 to 2.1 to see if it fixes the zip? Do not want
> to risk breaking the LDAP on current live system.
>
> Tom Reijnders has had a couple of goes with LDAP fixes in 2.1 - both
> interesting, but neither quite my problem, hence why I thought I'd skip
> that completely as there is still the 'how do we transfer xerte files
> between servers' question.
>
> http://www.xerte.org.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=2&id=292&Itemid=759&lang=en
>
>
> On 28 July 2014 14:51, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Re the zip export from 2.0 are you using IE by any chance? Can you try a
>> different browser? Also make sure projects are published before exporting
>> and test with a small project to eliminate size issues.
>>
>>
>>
>> From memory there were some issues for some (minority) users using IE but
>> not a conclusive cause/solution and those same users were able to export ok
>> using Chrome or Firefox.
>>
>>
>>
>> Re LDAP
>>
>> Did you install from scratch or an upgrade? If the latter did you run
>> upgrade.php? It's always difficult to troubleshoot this kind of issue
>> because configurations vary but as far as I'm aware 2.1 should work fine
>> with LDAP once the settings are correct but it may depend on exactly which
>> revision.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
>> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Jacob Yardley
>> *Sent:* 28 July 2014 14:35
>> *To:* xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> *Subject:* [Xerte] Compressed (zip) folder is invalid and LDAP errors.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello List,
>>
>> Our users are able to export from version 2.0 as far as a zip file is
>> created, but on trying to open the zip file are told it is invalid and it
>> can neither be opened nor imported. Any idea why?
>>
>>
>>
>> We need to transfer to a new server soon which has 2.1 installed. Guest
>> access and zip export works fine on the new server, but cannot get LDAP to
>> work despite using the same settings as our 2.0 server. There seem to be
>> few problems with LDAP on 2.1 noted elsewhere, but from debug logs we
>> simply get the following repeated, so some key process is not taking place?
>>
>> 2014-07-18 12:04:48
>> /var/www/xertetoolkits/website_code/php/database_library.php139Running :
>> SELECT * FROM xertesitedetails
>>
>>
>>
>> As LDAP login does not work, had hoped to simply set the few users up via
>> the database authentication method and have them import their files -hence
>> our discovery of the zip problem.
>>
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