Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Anna wrote: > Since, at least for now, we're not going to be using moodle in Birmingham > yet, I renamed you break my heart with that, but it's a valid workaround :-) 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 ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I was part-joking, didn't mean to make you feel back... s/back/bad/ 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 ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Anna wrote: > I'm very sorry, Martin, but I hope you understand the reasoning behind the > decision. I was part-joking, didn't mean to make you feel back... it turns out I did undestand in general terms why; but your email is very valuable in terms of expanding on the shortcomings I need to work on. Thanks! Our moodle situatuion is nowhere near where I want it to be. Time's gone into infrastucture/OS work, the regularly scheduled crises and whatnot. But we're getting closer. The moodle in 0.5.x is clearly a proof-of-concept, and as you say, not usable in real life. Now, let me work a bit on that... ;-) 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 ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Anna wrote: > > Since, at least for now, we're not going to be using moodle in Birmingham > > yet, I renamed > > you break my heart with that, but it's a valid workaround :-) > I'm very sorry, Martin, but I hope you understand the reasoning behind the decision. Aside from the teacher training issues regarding content creation and management, we're just not prepared to address the very serious potential for disciplinary issues surrounding the current login authentication method. The current moodle scenario might work within a small, trusting environment, but when I'm looking at schools with between 100-600 students, there's no way we can keep kids from making mischief via other logins, either accidentally or intentionally. I just don't want the electronic version of a kid writing "teacher is a dummy" on the blackboard, and the current moodle configuration allows the troublemaker to do so under another kid's name. Or delete each other's homework or any number of pranks we've yet to imagine. Don't get me wrong - I think Moodle is a very exciting project, and I'm looking forward to implementing it in the future, but not right now. That's why I had to find a workaround to host web content in the traditional fashion. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > There is an alternative you can also use - less moodle-centric, and > may be unsupported going forward > > 1 - create a new directory: /var/www/mylocalcontent , put your files there > > 2 - add a new apache config file in /etc/httpd/conf.d - in that file, > you need an Alias line, and a section. I think it needsto > be something like > > Alias /mylocalcontent /var/www/mylocalcontent > > order allow,deny > allow all > > > 3 - Edit the moodle header include to add a link to that content - > look in /var/www/moodle/web/themes/xo/header.html > > Since, at least for now, we're not going to be using moodle in Birmingham yet, I renamed /etc/httpd/conf.d/010-make-moodle-default.conf to /etc/httpd/conf.d/010-make-moodle-default.conf.orig and then /var/www/html/ went back to the way it was as in XS 0.4. In fact, on my test server, I have /var/www/html on a separate partition on another physical drive, so it only took an fstab edit to put the web content back. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:00 AM, David Leeming wrote: > With version 0.4 and 0.5.0 I was able to browse the server html folders, > i.e. the default for the link on the XO browser to "Local School Server" > with 0.4 took you to > > /var/www/html > > With version 0.5, the default page is > > /var/www/moodle/web/auth/olpcxs/who.php That's because it's taking you to Moodle, and you're getting authenticated there. The actual "default page" is /var/www/moodle/web/index.php ... which re-directs you to the authentication facility. Once we have the single-sign-on stuff sorted, it will be transparent, and you won't see the 'who.php' page. > With version 0.5-0 I was able to add this link to the who.php page: > > href="/var/www/html/content/index.html" > and get to the folders of browse-able content as before. hmm - there is a better place to put the link - that 'who.php' page is not really the right place... > With 0.5-1 it does not seem to work; unless I have made some stupid mistake, > I have reinstalled it twice but it reports on the XO browser: > > Not found: The requested URL /var/www/html/content/index.html was not found > on this server. That is very weird. Maybe moodle didn't get installed correctly? Which 0.5.1 candidate did you install? > I suppose one could create up a "course" on Moodle for each of those folders > but it's not always the most convenient way to do it. There is an moodle-based way to do it... it will be easy once Moodle is better configured, for now it's a bit awkward... 1 - Log in as the 'admin' user to moodle - you will find the password in /etc/moodle/ . The actions you need to do should be doable by any account with "course creator" rights but I haven't set this correctly up yet. So using the 'admin' account is a workaround during the 0.5 series :-/ 2 - We are going to put the files under the 'site files' -- that is, they will be managed just like files belonging to a course, but they are available to any user because they belong to the "site course", a magical "course" within moodle. In simple terms, evertything you see in Moodle's homepage 'belongs to a course'... this special 'site course'. 3 - If you have lots of files, you get the unenviable task of uploading them all - not fun. If you can use SSH / SCP or put the CD on the actual school server, you can use the commandline to put them in /var/lib/moodle/ , in the directory that belongs to the site course - usually named "1". Again, this is a temporary - and ugly - workaround. Moodle *can* do WebDAV, which makes life _so_ much easier... So that's the workflow. Ugly and kludgy. There is an alternative you can also use - less moodle-centric, and may be unsupported going forward 1 - create a new directory: /var/www/mylocalcontent , put your files there 2 - add a new apache config file in /etc/httpd/conf.d - in that file, you need an Alias line, and a section. I think it needsto be something like Alias /mylocalcontent /var/www/mylocalcontent order allow,deny allow all 3 - Edit the moodle header include to add a link to that content - look in /var/www/moodle/web/themes/xo/header.html 4 - Optional: enable the apache-based webdav extension, so you can manage this content via WebDAV. This will require quite a bit of configuration... but if you add/remove/edit content frequently, can be worthwhile... 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 ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] A video explaining the XS and educational content
In between the million things David Leeming is doing for the deployments in the pacific, he's found the time to shoot and narrate a video explaining how the XS is used, and how digital content can be served from it. The context to the video is the wider work being done by OLPC Oceania - as explained here http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Oceania/Content#School_Server the video is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI8ciP7C2zs the production is simple - a handheld camera, a couple of computers. The narration clear and measured. The content, fantastic. For me at least it is incredibly interesting to see how it's being used in the field. Thanks David! martin -- 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 ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] XS 05
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Henry Vélez Molina wrote: > Thanks Martin for you answer. No problem! > We have been trying to install the server via the "Kickstart", but that > happens when anaconda to start can not do it and the screen turns off. H, I can think of some possible causes... - your download was corrupt or truncated - check that the sha1sum of the iso is $ sha1sum OLPCXS-0.5.1-dev03-i386.iso eab0fd3596bbfca532eec51eb5e774cb00b25cd8 OLPCXS-0.5.1-dev03-i386.iso - You are hitting a low mem condition while installing the selinux-policies package. How much RAM does the machine have? > We > tried the solution that is in the wiki-press tab and add "text" and nothing > happens. One of the ways that we return to the terminal is pressing > Ctrl+Alt+2, then Ctrl+Alt+1. That can help if the problem is with RAM - I think you need to hit tab earlier -- before the graphical installer starts. There is a very early screen, as soon as the CD or USB stick is read - hit escape *there*... > Could be the GPU problem? Very unlikely to be GPU or CPU > What can be do in these cases? - Ensure the iso is good (with sha1sum), check memory, try to uyse the text installer. - Installing from USB is a bit less reliable - try with a CD - Try is to install a standard Fedora 9 on the machine - sometimes there are subtle incompatibilities there... > Is there another way to start the installation? Not really :-/ keep us posted on your progress so we can help...; 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 ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
