USB keyboard replacement
I have been installing USB keyboards in a few XO-1.5s, and took a recent opportunity to document the process: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_1.5_USB_Keyboard Cheers, wad ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [OLPC/Paraguay] Debugging NetworkManager-0.7.2.995 + Power Management
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 17:34 -0300, mabente wrote: Very sorry for the late response, here is the messages log and gdb backtrace log! Hopefully it will be helpful :) Yes, quite. Please try: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/NetworkManager-0.7.2.996-1.fc11,NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.2.996-1.fc11,NetworkManager-openconnect-0.7.2.996-1.fc11,NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.2.996-1.fc11,NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.2.996-1.fc11 and let me know if that fixes the problem. The upstream fix for the issue is: 0.7.x: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?h=NETWORKMANAGER_0_7id=e44e908747edc8eb61506bb29e7ac24292f7565c 0.8.x: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=a7e3d2acc29d3e7c267298df9a19a514ca628b37 Thanks! Dan ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: USB keyboard replacement
I have been installing USB keyboards in a few XO-1.5s. To me, sounds complicated. I've been using an external USB keyboard all along, and the XO drops power on the USB bus when it suspends. When the XO has only an USB keyboard, and suspends -- the user would need to tap the keypad to be able to type again. mikus p.s. BTW, I like the external Adesso AKB-110W USB keyboard. It is only three inches wider than the XO, and fits into the pack I use for carrying my XO. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: USB keyboard replacement
mikus wrote: I have been installing USB keyboards in a few XO-1.5s. To me, sounds complicated. it is. very. i've watched wad do it. and redo it. :-) it might even be more complicated than that page makes it look! i modified my own G1G1 XO a couple of years ago in a similar fashion. but i wasn't as careful, and the plastic case now has stress cracks showing up in several places due to the force i had to use to cram everything back together. wad has done a much better job of making things fit properly. I've been using an external USB keyboard all along, and the XO drops power on the USB bus when it suspends. When the XO has only an USB keyboard, and suspends -- the user would need to tap the keypad to be able to type again. yes. in theory XO-1.5 has the ability to wake on USB events. it's on my todo list to see if that can be made to work properly. the laptops being modified by wad are proof-of-concept prototypes to see how that sort of keyboard might work for deployments to older students. if they were to become real, the keyboard would not be connected via USB. p.s. BTW, I like the external Adesso AKB-110W USB keyboard. It is only three inches wider than the XO, and fits into the pack I use for carrying my XO. certainly i wouldn't choose the micro keyboard that we've been able to fit into the XO case as an external keyboard if i had a choice. it's useable, but still too small. and it lacks a right-hand shift key. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Review of our application
Hello everybody, I'm Jose a computer science student of FIB (http://www.fib.upc.edu/en.html). We are developing an activity for Sugar and our director told us to ask here for a review of our code. Is that correct? Where can I attach my code if that is possible? Thanks. -- Best regards, Jose Antonio Camallonga ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: need OLPC contact
Sarah, thank you. So you suggest including WeSay in our Gnome builds - that's an interesting idea, and something that Yama mentioned a year ago... certainly suitable for the OLPC devel list. That's also the place to discuss Mono in general, necessary if this were to become a widespread effort. http://wesay.org/wiki/Getting_Mono_on_OLPC Do you work with developers who could help make a Sugar activity out of wesay as well? It would be nice to offer it as a download to the 1 million students currently using an XO-1, who don't have a Gnome desktop option: SJ who just joined the wesay group. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Sarah Ogilvie sv...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Hi SJ, Glad you like the idea. There are various dictionary-making tools, but I think that 'Wesay' would be the best option for your Fedora 11/Gnome and Sugar desktops: http://wesay.org/wiki/Main_Page Best, Sarah On Apr 5 2010, Samuel Klein wrote: Kevin and Sarah, lovely to meet you, an awesome idea. What tool would you recommend? We could add it to our Fedora 11/Gnome desktop, or better yet to our Sugar desktop as an activity http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles SJ quote who=Kevin Jones date=Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 06:40:02PM -0700 Thanks Henry. Mako, my friend Sarah Ogilvie has something that would add a lot of value to the OLPC, I think, extending its immediate useful value to new groups, and do a lot of good at the same time. ccing Sarah here. Here is what Sarah said about her project: My idea is to put simple dictionary-making software on the OLPC XO laptops, so that speakers of endangered languages can document their languages. We are living in an era in which an average of one language disappears every two weeks, and my project at the University of Cambridge (Endangered Languages and Dictionaries) looks at how we can write innovative dictionaries that are collaborative, community-focussed, and help facilitate language preservation and revitalization. http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/the-college/people/sarah-ogilvie/elad1.php There are various options for simple software which are perfectly suited to the XO laptops, and I would be happy to discuss the issue further. This could be another important extension of the OLPC project and its vision to use technology as a means of bringing freedom and empowerment to children. I would be delighted to help in any way. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Adobe Flash 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO
On Mar 24, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: Yes and no. Anyone technically capable to rebuild our build system, as you mention below, will be able to easily script the installation of AIR. Nope. I am fairly good with it, and I cannot script the installation of AIR. If you have a technique, time to share it. I was able to script it by doing: yum install gtk2-devel libxml2-devel rpm-devel rpm-build nss nss-devel wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/1.5/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin chmod 777 AdobeAIRInstaller.bin ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin -silent -eulaAccepted___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Adobe Flash 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin -silent -eulaAccepted Excelent! Where the #$%^ did you find that that documented? cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Adobe Flash 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO
On Apr 6, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin -silent -eulaAccepted Excelent! Where the #$%^ did you find that that documented? http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/air_runtime_redist/air_runtime_redist.pdf And for completeness after Air is installed you can silently install the Air app with: /usr/bin/Adobe\ AIR\ Application\ Installer -silent /path/to/*.air ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Richard Stallman en Berazategui
El día Miercoles *14 de Abril* a las *14:30* horas, en el *Gimnasio Municipal Roberto DeVicenzo*, a dos cuadras de la Estación de Berazategui, se desarrollará el evento de Cultura Digital más importante en la historia del distrito. Se trata de la primer visita del ex hacker del MIT y defensor de la libertad de las personas en la era digital, el *Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman*, quien ofrecerá una conferencia para todo público, en español. La conferencia titulada '*Por una sociedad digital libre*' no requiere conocimientos técnicos previos y está destinada a todos los sectores de la población. En el caso de los docentes y estudiantes, el evento es considerado de interés cultural y educativo, por lo que deberán consultar a Consejo Escolar para asistir con los alumnos. El Dr. Stallman habla español en forma fluida. Richard Stallman es un *programador y hacker estadounidense*, es una de las cuatro personalidades más importantes de la informática contemporánea,creador del Movimiento del Software Libre, el primer movimento social online de alcance mundial, el sistema operativo GNU que utilizado con distintos núcleos conforma los sistemas gnu/linux y gnu/freebsd entre otros, creó el concepto de '*Copyleft*' y la licencia GPL, la GNUpedia (un antecesor de la Wikipedia) y defiende la libertad para acceder y compartir el conocimiento y la cultura como un derecho esencial en la así llamada *Sociedad del Conocimiento*. Organiza el evento la *Secretaría de Gobierno* de la *Municipalidad de Berazategui*, con el apoyo de la consultora Industria Más Cultura, Jóvenes del Centro Comercial CCIB y Proyecto UTUTO. Para mas información sobre la gira completa de Stallman en Argentina y Uruguay, acceder al sitio web *BerazateguiLibre.org*http://BerazateguiLibre.orgdonde encontrará el formulario de registro al evento, detalles sobre las actividades, datos biográficos y fotografías de Richard Stallman, plano del lugar para llegar, otros eventos de la gira y definiciones sobre Software Libre en general. http://BerazateguiLibre.org http://berazateguilibre.org/ Consultas a: i...@berazateguilibre.org *Agradecemos difundir este mensaje. * BerazateguiLibre - Usuarios de Software Libre de Berazategui ___ http://listas.berazateguilibre.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stallman ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: need OLPC contact
Dear SJ, For development, I suggest talking to John Hatton, SIL International Software Developer, who I am copying in to this message. John Hatton john_hat...@sil.org As for content of the Sugar activity, I would be delighted to help with that. best Sarah On 6 Apr 2010, at 10:59, Samuel Klein wrote: Sarah, thank you. So you suggest including WeSay in our Gnome builds - that's an interesting idea, and something that Yama mentioned a year ago... certainly suitable for the OLPC devel list. That's also the place to discuss Mono in general, necessary if this were to become a widespread effort. http://wesay.org/wiki/Getting_Mono_on_OLPC Do you work with developers who could help make a Sugar activity out of wesay as well? It would be nice to offer it as a download to the 1 million students currently using an XO-1, who don't have a Gnome desktop option: SJ who just joined the wesay group. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Sarah Ogilvie sv...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Hi SJ, Glad you like the idea. There are various dictionary-making tools, but I think that 'Wesay' would be the best option for your Fedora 11/Gnome and Sugar desktops: http://wesay.org/wiki/Main_Page Best, Sarah On Apr 5 2010, Samuel Klein wrote: Kevin and Sarah, lovely to meet you, an awesome idea. What tool would you recommend? We could add it to our Fedora 11/Gnome desktop, or better yet to our Sugar desktop as an activity http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles SJ quote who=Kevin Jones date=Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 06:40:02PM -0700 Thanks Henry. Mako, my friend Sarah Ogilvie has something that would add a lot of value to the OLPC, I think, extending its immediate useful value to new groups, and do a lot of good at the same time. ccing Sarah here. Here is what Sarah said about her project: My idea is to put simple dictionary-making software on the OLPC XO laptops, so that speakers of endangered languages can document their languages. We are living in an era in which an average of one language disappears every two weeks, and my project at the University of Cambridge (Endangered Languages and Dictionaries) looks at how we can write innovative dictionaries that are collaborative, community-focussed, and help facilitate language preservation and revitalization. http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/the-college/people/sarah-ogilvie/elad1.php There are various options for simple software which are perfectly suited to the XO laptops, and I would be happy to discuss the issue further. This could be another important extension of the OLPC project and its vision to use technology as a means of bringing freedom and empowerment to children. I would be delighted to help in any way. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Adobe Flash 10.1 + AIR 2.0 on the XO
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin -silent -eulaAccepted Excelent! Where the #$%^ did you find that that documented? http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/air_runtime_redist/air_runtime_redist.pdf It still carries then nastiness of requiring dev packages, which we'll want to jettison after the process. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Public folders
Tim, I am also looking for a way to have a digital library of .pdf files etc. that can be accessed by any XO on an XS server. I have tried the approach you outlined, but when I use Browse to go to http://schoolserver/public it is not found. The server responds: The requested URL /public was not found on this server. My server domain is asilong.org, so my actual URL is http://schoolserver.asilong.org/public (this is as it should be right?) I have tried going to schoolserver/library/public but it is not found either. In terminal, I can go to the directory /library/public and my documents are in the directory. I doubled checked the xs-library-public.conf file in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory for typos but couldn't find any. Any guess as to why I can't get to the files from Browse? Thanks, Andy On Apr 2, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Tim Moody wrote: I created a directory public under /library into which I copied a few pdfs. I created a file xs-library-public.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d which contains Alias /public/ /library/public Directory /library/public Order allow,deny Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory After service httpd restart I get an index of the pdfs from http://schoolserver/public -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 06:41:51 +1000 From: David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com Subject: [Server-devel] Public folders To: 'XS Devel' server-devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: 01cad1db$c2141720$463c45...@com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Using the XS installed with default settings. I have been making folders public in /var/www/html and am able to view sub folders to be listed. I.e. if there is no specific html file, the whole contents of the folder appear in the browser. Fine that is what I want. However, when copying content into that folder I rapidly run out of space. It seems that the main disk space is in an another partition where the folder /library is located. This makes sense (i.e. to have a lot of room in the library...) Therefore, I copied my public content into sub folders under the directory /library and made the whole of /library public using the html.conf file with Aliases pointing to my specific subfolders. However, under /library it won't allow contents of subfolders to be listed (unless there is an index file in which case it opens that by default, but I want the folder contents listed in some cases. Help? David Leeming ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Public folders
On Apr 6, 2010, at 4:50 PM, David Leeming wrote: Andra, Have you added a new conf file, to declare the folders public? Yes, I followed Tim's note and named my conf file xs-library-public.conf as I noted in my last email. I don't think the name of the conf file matters, as any .conf file placed in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory gets appended to the main configuration. Use nano or other text editer to create a file html.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ and add the below, with a new entry for each alias. It's case sensitive remember. Then the below should be available at http://schoolserver/MyFolders What do you mean by the below should be available? Do you mean the files in the /library/public directory should be availalble (that is what I was expecting, but as I mentioned, my browser can't find it.) I am wondering if I have to do something to tell the server where the starting level is, because it does not seem to be going to /library/public, but to some other directory. Alias /MyFolders /library/public Directory /library/public Order allow,deny Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory David Leeming -Original Message- From: server-devel-boun...@lists.laptop.org [mailto:server-devel-boun...@lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Andra DuPont Sent: Wednesday, 7 April 2010 6:09 a.m. To: Tim Moody Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Public folders Tim, I am also looking for a way to have a digital library of .pdf files etc. that can be accessed by any XO on an XS server. I have tried the approach you outlined, but when I use Browse to go to http://schoolserver/public it is not found. The server responds: The requested URL /public was not found on this server. My server domain is asilong.org, so my actual URL is http://schoolserver.asilong.org/public (this is as it should be right?) I have tried going to schoolserver/library/public but it is not found either. In terminal, I can go to the directory /library/public and my documents are in the directory. I doubled checked the xs-library-public.conf file in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory for typos but couldn't find any. Any guess as to why I can't get to the files from Browse? Thanks, Andy On Apr 2, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Tim Moody wrote: I created a directory public under /library into which I copied a few pdfs. I created a file xs-library-public.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d which contains Alias /public/ /library/public Directory /library/public Order allow,deny Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory After service httpd restart I get an index of the pdfs from http://schoolserver/public -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 06:41:51 +1000 From: David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com Subject: [Server-devel] Public folders To: 'XS Devel' server-devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: 01cad1db$c2141720$463c45...@com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Using the XS installed with default settings. I have been making folders public in /var/www/html and am able to view sub folders to be listed. I.e. if there is no specific html file, the whole contents of the folder appear in the browser. Fine that is what I want. However, when copying content into that folder I rapidly run out of space. It seems that the main disk space is in an another partition where the folder /library is located. This makes sense (i.e. to have a lot of room in the library...) Therefore, I copied my public content into sub folders under the directory /library and made the whole of /library public using the html.conf file with Aliases pointing to my specific subfolders. However, under /library it won't allow contents of subfolders to be listed (unless there is an index file in which case it opens that by default, but I want the folder contents listed in some cases. Help? David Leeming ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Public folders
Did you restart the web server with service httpd restart? What does service httpd configtest say? Yes, http://schoolserver.asilong.org/public should be right, though the shorter form worked for me as well. http://schoolserver/library/public should not work because of the Alias statement. Are you on XS 0.6? Have you looked for errors in the web server logs in /var/log/httpd? Are the permissions on /library/public the same as /library/xs-activity-server and those on xs-library-public.conf the same as xs-activity-server.conf? Can you paste the contents of xs-library-public.conf into an email. - Original Message - From: Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com To: Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Public folders Tim, I am also looking for a way to have a digital library of .pdf files etc. that can be accessed by any XO on an XS server. I have tried the approach you outlined, but when I use Browse to go to http://schoolserver/public it is not found. The server responds: The requested URL /public was not found on this server. My server domain is asilong.org, so my actual URL is http://schoolserver.asilong.org/public (this is as it should be right?) I have tried going to schoolserver/library/public but it is not found either. In terminal, I can go to the directory /library/public and my documents are in the directory. I doubled checked the xs-library-public.conf file in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory for typos but couldn't find any. Any guess as to why I can't get to the files from Browse? Thanks, Andy On Apr 2, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Tim Moody wrote: I created a directory public under /library into which I copied a few pdfs. I created a file xs-library-public.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d which contains Alias /public/ /library/public Directory /library/public Order allow,deny Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory After service httpd restart I get an index of the pdfs from http://schoolserver/public -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 06:41:51 +1000 From: David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com Subject: [Server-devel] Public folders To: 'XS Devel' server-devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: 01cad1db$c2141720$463c45...@com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Using the XS installed with default settings. I have been making folders public in /var/www/html and am able to view sub folders to be listed. I.e. if there is no specific html file, the whole contents of the folder appear in the browser. Fine that is what I want. However, when copying content into that folder I rapidly run out of space. It seems that the main disk space is in an another partition where the folder /library is located. This makes sense (i.e. to have a lot of room in the library...) Therefore, I copied my public content into sub folders under the directory /library and made the whole of /library public using the html.conf file with Aliases pointing to my specific subfolders. However, under /library it won't allow contents of subfolders to be listed (unless there is an index file in which case it opens that by default, but I want the folder contents listed in some cases. Help? David Leeming ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Public folders
Hi Andra, well it works OK for me. I am using an XS with pretty much default config. In /etc/httpd/conf.d/ I have a file html.conf as follows. I can browse pdf library or html pages as are found in the seven folders named below, for instance by entering in the browser http://schoolserver/Public will take me to /var/www/html/public and display anything inside or open a default index file if found. I have created global links on the Moodle front page to each. I am expecting to be able to move everything to /library and make the contents list-able by using the extra lines mentioned previously. Try comparing my approach to yours, maybe you missed something. It's very easy to get the case wrong, for instance. Alias /Public /var/www/html/public Alias /SPC /var/www/html/spc Alias /eBooks /var/www/html/ebooks Alias /OLPC-resources /var/www/html/olpc-resources Alias /Schools-Wikipedia /library/Schools-Wikipedia Alias /UNESCO-2008-SchoolNet /library/unesco-2008 Alias /UNESCO-2005-SchoolNet /library/unesco-2005 # Public web pages - must be publically accessible Directory /var/www/html Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory Directory /library Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory David Leeming Leeming Consulting, P.O. Box 652, Honiara, Solomon Islands Tel: +677 747-6396 (m) 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com -Original Message- From: Andra DuPont [mailto:andradup...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 7 April 2010 8:09 a.m. To: David Leeming Cc: XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Public folders On Apr 6, 2010, at 4:50 PM, David Leeming wrote: Andra, Have you added a new conf file, to declare the folders public? Yes, I followed Tim's note and named my conf file xs-library-public.conf as I noted in my last email. I don't think the name of the conf file matters, as any .conf file placed in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory gets appended to the main configuration. Use nano or other text editer to create a file html.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ and add the below, with a new entry for each alias. It's case sensitive remember. Then the below should be available at http://schoolserver/MyFolders What do you mean by the below should be available? Do you mean the files in the /library/public directory should be availalble (that is what I was expecting, but as I mentioned, my browser can't find it.) I am wondering if I have to do something to tell the server where the starting level is, because it does not seem to be going to /library/public, but to some other directory. Alias /MyFolders /library/public Directory /library/public Order allow,deny Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory David Leeming -Original Message- From: server-devel-boun...@lists.laptop.org [mailto:server-devel-boun...@lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Andra DuPont Sent: Wednesday, 7 April 2010 6:09 a.m. To: Tim Moody Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Public folders Tim, I am also looking for a way to have a digital library of .pdf files etc. that can be accessed by any XO on an XS server. I have tried the approach you outlined, but when I use Browse to go to http://schoolserver/public it is not found. The server responds: The requested URL /public was not found on this server. My server domain is asilong.org, so my actual URL is http://schoolserver.asilong.org/public (this is as it should be right?) I have tried going to schoolserver/library/public but it is not found either. In terminal, I can go to the directory /library/public and my documents are in the directory. I doubled checked the xs-library-public.conf file in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory for typos but couldn't find any. Any guess as to why I can't get to the files from Browse? Thanks, Andy On Apr 2, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Tim Moody wrote: I created a directory public under /library into which I copied a few pdfs. I created a file xs-library-public.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d which contains Alias /public/ /library/public Directory /library/public Order allow,deny Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory After service httpd restart I get an index of the pdfs from http://schoolserver/public -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 06:41:51 +1000 From: David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com Subject: [Server-devel] Public folders To: 'XS Devel' server-devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: 01cad1db$c2141720$463c45...@com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Using the XS installed with default settings. I have been making folders public in /var/www/html and am able to view sub folders to be listed. I.e. if there is no specific html file, the whole contents of the folder appear in the browser. Fine that is what I want. However, when copying content into that folder I
Re: [Server-devel] Public folders
David, Thanks for the response. What you have working is great. I'm sure you're right... I probably just have a typo somewhere. I am still checking. I should also mention that I am running web caching from a program called wwwoffle. It caches all external activity and serves it up well even when there is no internet service, which squid does not handle well. wwwoffle does not seem to bother moodle, so I wouldn't think it is the problem. My http-port is set to 3128 just like squid uses. I'll keep plugging away and find out what is wrong soon. The info from Tim is very helpful. On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:46 PM, David Leeming wrote: Hi Andra, well it works OK for me. I am using an XS with pretty much default config. In /etc/httpd/conf.d/ I have a file html.conf as follows. I can browse pdf library or html pages as are found in the seven folders named below, for instance by entering in the browser http://schoolserver/Public will take me to /var/www/html/public and display anything inside or open a default index file if found. I have created global links on the Moodle front page to each. I am expecting to be able to move everything to /library and make the contents list-able by using the extra lines mentioned previously. Try comparing my approach to yours, maybe you missed something. It's very easy to get the case wrong, for instance. Alias /Public /var/www/html/public Alias /SPC /var/www/html/spc Alias /eBooks /var/www/html/ebooks Alias /OLPC-resources /var/www/html/olpc-resources Alias /Schools-Wikipedia /library/Schools-Wikipedia Alias /UNESCO-2008-SchoolNet /library/unesco-2008 Alias /UNESCO-2005-SchoolNet /library/unesco-2005 # Public web pages - must be publically accessible Directory /var/www/html Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory Directory /library Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory David Leeming Leeming Consulting, P.O. Box 652, Honiara, Solomon Islands Tel: +677 747-6396 (m) 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com -Original Message- From: Andra DuPont [mailto:andradup...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 7 April 2010 8:09 a.m. To: David Leeming Cc: XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Public folders On Apr 6, 2010, at 4:50 PM, David Leeming wrote: Andra, Have you added a new conf file, to declare the folders public? Yes, I followed Tim's note and named my conf file xs-library-public.conf as I noted in my last email. I don't think the name of the conf file matters, as any .conf file placed in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory gets appended to the main configuration. Use nano or other text editer to create a file html.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ and add the below, with a new entry for each alias. It's case sensitive remember. Then the below should be available at http://schoolserver/MyFolders What do you mean by the below should be available? Do you mean the files in the /library/public directory should be availalble (that is what I was expecting, but as I mentioned, my browser can't find it.) I am wondering if I have to do something to tell the server where the starting level is, because it does not seem to be going to /library/public, but to some other directory. Alias /MyFolders /library/public Directory /library/public Order allow,deny Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory David Leeming -Original Message- From: server-devel-boun...@lists.laptop.org [mailto:server-devel-boun...@lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Andra DuPont Sent: Wednesday, 7 April 2010 6:09 a.m. To: Tim Moody Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Public folders Tim, I am also looking for a way to have a digital library of .pdf files etc. that can be accessed by any XO on an XS server. I have tried the approach you outlined, but when I use Browse to go to http://schoolserver/public it is not found. The server responds: The requested URL /public was not found on this server. My server domain is asilong.org, so my actual URL is http://schoolserver.asilong.org/public (this is as it should be right?) I have tried going to schoolserver/library/public but it is not found either. In terminal, I can go to the directory /library/public and my documents are in the directory. I doubled checked the xs-library-public.conf file in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory for typos but couldn't find any. Any guess as to why I can't get to the files from Browse? Thanks, Andy On Apr 2, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Tim Moody wrote: I created a directory public under /library into which I copied a few pdfs. I created a file xs-library-public.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d which contains Alias /public/ /library/public Directory /library/public Order allow,deny Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory After service httpd restart I get an index of the pdfs from
Re: [Server-devel] Public folders
On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Tim Moody wrote: Did you restart the web server with service httpd restart? What does service httpd configtest say? Yes, http://schoolserver.asilong.org/public should be right, though the shorter form worked for me as well. http://schoolserver/library/public should not work because of the Alias statement. Are you on XS 0.6? Have you looked for errors in the web server logs in /var/log/httpd? The error log has the answer. I put my public folder in /library but according to the error log, the server is going to /var/www/html/public This is where David Leeming has his. I don't know where the server gets told where the base or home location is for the schoolserver, but apparently it is set to /var/www/html for http requests. I'm learning. So Tim, why does your server go to /library ??? I changed the conf file to: Alias /public/ /var/www/html/public Directory /var/www/html/public Works like a champ. Are the permissions on /library/public the same as /library/xs-activity-server and those on xs-library-public.conf the same as xs-activity-server.conf? Can you paste the contents of xs-library-public.conf into an email. - Original Message - From: Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com To: Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Public folders Tim, I am also looking for a way to have a digital library of .pdf files etc. that can be accessed by any XO on an XS server. I have tried the approach you outlined, but when I use Browse to go to http://schoolserver/public it is not found. The server responds: The requested URL /public was not found on this server. My server domain is asilong.org, so my actual URL is http://schoolserver.asilong.org/public (this is as it should be right?) I have tried going to schoolserver/library/public but it is not found either. In terminal, I can go to the directory /library/public and my documents are in the directory. I doubled checked the xs-library-public.conf file in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory for typos but couldn't find any. Any guess as to why I can't get to the files from Browse? Thanks, Andy On Apr 2, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Tim Moody wrote: I created a directory public under /library into which I copied a few pdfs. I created a file xs-library-public.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d which contains Alias /public/ /library/public Directory /library/public Order allow,deny Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory After service httpd restart I get an index of the pdfs from http://schoolserver/public -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 06:41:51 +1000 From: David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com Subject: [Server-devel] Public folders To: 'XS Devel' server-devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: 01cad1db$c2141720$463c45...@com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Using the XS installed with default settings. I have been making folders public in /var/www/html and am able to view sub folders to be listed. I.e. if there is no specific html file, the whole contents of the folder appear in the browser. Fine that is what I want. However, when copying content into that folder I rapidly run out of space. It seems that the main disk space is in an another partition where the folder /library is located. This makes sense (i.e. to have a lot of room in the library...) Therefore, I copied my public content into sub folders under the directory /library and made the whole of /library public using the html.conf file with Aliases pointing to my specific subfolders. However, under /library it won't allow contents of subfolders to be listed (unless there is an index file in which case it opens that by default, but I want the folder contents listed in some cases. Help? David Leeming ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Public folders
On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Tim Moody wrote: The standard apache config file, httpd.conf in /etc/httpd/conf, or in our case the file httpd-xs.conf, sets the base location as DocumentRoot /var/www/html. So you don't actually need an Alias or directory directive to get to /var/www/html/public via http://schoolserver/library/public. Alias /public/ overrides that. Note that David also has his files in /library/Schools-Wikipedia, the reason being that the stock xs install doesn't allocate much space to the root partition where /var/www/html is found. It puts library on a separate volume with most of the disk there, so you will run out of space in /var/www/html fairly quickly. It sounds to me like your Alias and Directory directives are not doing anything. Perhaps the file is not getting loaded. Yes I came to the same conclusion my Alias directive is not working. If you look at the What happens if you access http://schoolserver.asilong.org/activities? The screen says: Locally available activities These activities are stored on the school server. Then the screen is blank below (no activities listed) - Original Message - From: Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com To: Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Public folders On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Tim Moody wrote: Did you restart the web server with service httpd restart? What does service httpd configtest say? Yes, http://schoolserver.asilong.org/public should be right, though the shorter form worked for me as well. http://schoolserver/library/public should not work because of the Alias statement. Are you on XS 0.6? Have you looked for errors in the web server logs in /var/log/httpd? The error log has the answer. I put my public folder in /library but according to the error log, the server is going to /var/www/html/public This is where David Leeming has his. I don't know where the server gets told where the base or home location is for the schoolserver, but apparently it is set to /var/www/html for http requests. I'm learning. So Tim, why does your server go to /library ??? I changed the conf file to: Alias /public/ /var/www/html/public Directory /var/www/html/public Works like a champ. Are the permissions on /library/public the same as /library/xs-activity-server and those on xs-library-public.conf the same as xs-activity-server.conf? Can you paste the contents of xs-library-public.conf into an email. - Original Message - From: Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com To: Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Public folders Tim, I am also looking for a way to have a digital library of .pdf files etc. that can be accessed by any XO on an XS server. I have tried the approach you outlined, but when I use Browse to go to http://schoolserver/public it is not found. The server responds: The requested URL /public was not found on this server. My server domain is asilong.org, so my actual URL is http://schoolserver.asilong.org/public (this is as it should be right?) I have tried going to schoolserver/library/public but it is not found either. In terminal, I can go to the directory /library/public and my documents are in the directory. I doubled checked the xs-library-public.conf file in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory for typos but couldn't find any. Any guess as to why I can't get to the files from Browse? Thanks, Andy On Apr 2, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Tim Moody wrote: I created a directory public under /library into which I copied a few pdfs. I created a file xs-library-public.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d which contains Alias /public/ /library/public Directory /library/public Order allow,deny Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory After service httpd restart I get an index of the pdfs from http://schoolserver/public -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 06:41:51 +1000 From: David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com Subject: [Server-devel] Public folders To: 'XS Devel' server-devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: 01cad1db$c2141720$463c45...@com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Using the XS installed with default settings. I have been making folders public in /var/www/html and am able to view sub folders to be listed. I.e. if there is no specific html file, the whole contents of the folder appear in the browser. Fine that is what I want. However, when copying content into that folder I rapidly run out of space. It seems that the main disk space is in an another partition where the folder /library is located. This makes sense (i.e. to have a lot of room
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Tim, Both my httpd.conf and httpd-xs.conf files have the line Include conf.d/*.conf To me that means that all files ending with .conf in the conf.d directory should be included. Any ideas what is going on? How can I see if the xs-library-public.conf file is being included or not? On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Tim Moody wrote: The standard apache config file, httpd.conf in /etc/httpd/conf, or in our case the file httpd-xs.conf, sets the base location as DocumentRoot /var/www/html. So you don't actually need an Alias or directory directive to get to /var/www/html/public via http://schoolserver/library/public. Alias /public/ overrides that. Note that David also has his files in /library/Schools-Wikipedia, the reason being that the stock xs install doesn't allocate much space to the root partition where /var/www/html is found. It puts library on a separate volume with most of the disk there, so you will run out of space in /var/www/html fairly quickly. It sounds to me like your Alias and Directory directives are not doing anything. Perhaps the file is not getting loaded. If you look at the What happens if you access http://schoolserver.asilong.org/activities? - Original Message - From: Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com To: Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Public folders On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Tim Moody wrote: Did you restart the web server with service httpd restart? What does service httpd configtest say? Yes, http://schoolserver.asilong.org/public should be right, though the shorter form worked for me as well. http://schoolserver/library/public should not work because of the Alias statement. Are you on XS 0.6? Have you looked for errors in the web server logs in /var/log/httpd? The error log has the answer. I put my public folder in /library but according to the error log, the server is going to /var/www/html/public This is where David Leeming has his. I don't know where the server gets told where the base or home location is for the schoolserver, but apparently it is set to /var/www/html for http requests. I'm learning. So Tim, why does your server go to /library ??? I changed the conf file to: Alias /public/ /var/www/html/public Directory /var/www/html/public Works like a champ. Are the permissions on /library/public the same as /library/xs-activity-server and those on xs-library-public.conf the same as xs-activity-server.conf? Can you paste the contents of xs-library-public.conf into an email. - Original Message - From: Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com To: Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Public folders Tim, I am also looking for a way to have a digital library of .pdf files etc. that can be accessed by any XO on an XS server. I have tried the approach you outlined, but when I use Browse to go to http://schoolserver/public it is not found. The server responds: The requested URL /public was not found on this server. My server domain is asilong.org, so my actual URL is http://schoolserver.asilong.org/public (this is as it should be right?) I have tried going to schoolserver/library/public but it is not found either. In terminal, I can go to the directory /library/public and my documents are in the directory. I doubled checked the xs-library-public.conf file in the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory for typos but couldn't find any. Any guess as to why I can't get to the files from Browse? Thanks, Andy On Apr 2, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Tim Moody wrote: I created a directory public under /library into which I copied a few pdfs. I created a file xs-library-public.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d which contains Alias /public/ /library/public Directory /library/public Order allow,deny Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory After service httpd restart I get an index of the pdfs from http://schoolserver/public -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 06:41:51 +1000 From: David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com Subject: [Server-devel] Public folders To: 'XS Devel' server-devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: 01cad1db$c2141720$463c45...@com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Using the XS installed with default settings. I have been making folders public in /var/www/html and am able to view sub folders to be listed. I.e. if there is no specific html file, the whole contents of the folder appear in the browser. Fine that is what I want. However, when copying content into that folder I rapidly run out of space. It seems that the main disk space is in an another partition where the folder
Re: [Server-devel] Public folders
Tim, Earlier I noted that the /var/log/httpd/error_log had the error: file does not exist: /var/www/html/publicSugar Manual.pdf Notice that there is no / between public and Sugar Is that normal??? This could just be a bug in the way errors are logged, but I doubt it. It seems that the code is generating a request with a syntax issue. What do you think? I am going to go look at the index file. On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:22 PM, Andra DuPont wrote: file does not exist: /var/www/html/publicSugar Manual.pdf Notice that there is no space or / between public and Sugar Is that normal??? This could just be an error in the way errors are logged. Regardless, I cannot access the files listed in the index. ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
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On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 21:52 -0400, Andra DuPont wrote: Tim, Earlier I noted that the /var/log/httpd/error_log had the error: file does not exist: /var/www/html/publicSugar Manual.pdf Notice that there is no / between public and Sugar Is that normal??? No, just wondering if your new proxy is able to be run as a transparent proxy(don't have to configure the browsers for the proxy), squid is setup as such. Did you, at some point run /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/TURN_SQUID_ON? That would of added an iptables redirect for all web requests. As a quick test could you do: /etc/xs-config/altfiles/etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/TURN_SQUID_OFF service iptables restart and retry Jerry This could just be a bug in the way errors are logged, but I doubt it. It seems that the code is generating a request with a syntax issue. What do you think? I am going to go look at the index file. On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:22 PM, Andra DuPont wrote: file does not exist: /var/www/html/publicSugar Manual.pdf Notice that there is no space or / between public and Sugar Is that normal??? This could just be an error in the way errors are logged. Regardless, I cannot access the files listed in the index. ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Public folders
Problem solved see correction below. On Apr 2, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Tim Moody wrote: I created a directory public under /library into which I copied a few pdfs. I created a file xs-library-public.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d which contains Alias /public/ /library/public The above line caused my requests to be missing a / after the directory name and the file. I recommend changing the line to Alias /public /library/public or Alias /public/ /library/public/ both seem to work the same, but I believe the first is preferred. That is the syntax used in the xs-activity-server.conf file. Directory /library/public Order allow,deny Allow from all Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory After service httpd restart I get an index of the pdfs from http://schoolserver/public -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 06:41:51 +1000 From: David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com Subject: [Server-devel] Public folders To: 'XS Devel' server-devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: 01cad1db$c2141720$463c45...@com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Using the XS installed with default settings. I have been making folders public in /var/www/html and am able to view sub folders to be listed. I.e. if there is no specific html file, the whole contents of the folder appear in the browser. Fine that is what I want. However, when copying content into that folder I rapidly run out of space. It seems that the main disk space is in an another partition where the folder /library is located. This makes sense (i.e. to have a lot of room in the library...) Therefore, I copied my public content into sub folders under the directory /library and made the whole of /library public using the html.conf file with Aliases pointing to my specific subfolders. However, under /library it won't allow contents of subfolders to be listed (unless there is an index file in which case it opens that by default, but I want the folder contents listed in some cases. Help? David Leeming ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
