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

Pat L (pgogy) xerte at pgogywebstuff.com
Mon Jul 28 22:37:18 BST 2014 

Also,
If you're happy to edit code there is some more complicated debugging we
could do. You might have hit a bug we could fix for others.
Pat


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
wrote:

> Ok so the problem with export isn't the IE issue which was only a slight
> possibility anyway. I doubt the export and ldap issues are related so we
> need to deal with these separately and if your reason for exporting is to
> migrate those projects to the new install that might not be your best
> method anyway if there are a lot of projects. You could try the following
> if your new server has only been used for testing so far and not real
> projects.
>
>
>
> 1. Copy the database and directory from the old server to the new server
> either in a new location or completely replacing your current test.
>
> 2. Change the db connection details in database.php if necessary and the
> site_url, root_file_path and import_path values in site_details to reflect
> the new server.
>
> 3. You should now have a working mirror copy of your current 2.0 install.
> If everything works including LDAP you can proceed with upgrading. If LDAP
> still doesn't work then it's probably a server configuration issue rather
> than xerte specific. You could try guest authentication to make sure
> everything else is working.
>
> 4. Follow the instructions for upgrading in the documentation folder and
> given that this started with an early version probably best to follow the
> clean upgrade instructions.
>
> 5. If all now works you might need to repeat the process by first
> scheduling to stop anyone making changes to your current 2.0 on the old
> server and then copying everything again or stop access/changes first.
>
>
>
> If your goal is to move to a new server and upgrade to the latest version
> to my mind this (copying and upgrading) is a better route than looking to
> export and import projects especially if there are a lot of them and I have
> done this many times without problem or at least if there are problems it's
> more often due to server differences rather than xerte specific. This
> wouldn't explain or resolve why export isn't working on your 2.0 install or
> LDAP isn't working on your new server but it might help identify if the
> problems lay with Xerte and Xerte versions or the differences between the
> servers.
>
>
>
> Hope that makes sense.
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> *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 15:22
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Compressed (zip) folder is invalid and LDAP errors.
>
>
>
> 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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