Art, I have been able to host .xo files on a web server in my home. It was an Apache web server provided with my Linux distro and I did nothing whatever to configure it for .xo files. I used this web server on my development box so I could copy my Activities from my development box to my XO without copying them to and from a thumb drive. It worked just fine.
Now whatever was done to your web server makes your .xo files downlload with a .zip suffix. When I tried to download one of them I got a file named OurMusic-1.xo.zip. The extra .zip suffix is what prevents Sugar from recognizing your Activity as a .xo file. So perhaps your tech needs to undo what he just did. Apache doesn't need to know what a .xo file is to make it available to download, and .xo's are not a standard MIME type. James Simmons > Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:29:35 -0500 > From: "Art Hunkins" <abhun...@uncg.edu> > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Co-hosting my own activities? > To: "Lucian Branescu" <lucian.brane...@gmail.com>, "Aleksey Lim" > <alsr...@member.fsf.org> > Cc: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > Message-ID: <bcb9640e8cb44d839d0ced2795867...@art> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > This may well be the problem - with SoaS as well as XO-1 not recognizing > downloads of .xo activity bundles from my website. (The "activity download" > is not placed in the Activities folder, nor does it appear with its proper > icon in the Journal. Download otherwise appears normal.) > > I think so because, when I was chatting with tech at my server about why .xo > bundles could not be found on my site, he asked me what the MIME type was for > the bundles; I'd no idea even what MIME types were. I did tell him that .xo > bundles were "just like" .zip archives; so he did something that made .xo's > findable and downloadable (probably gave them the .zip MIME type). > > At any rate, I gather I need to tell him the *appropriate* MIME type. Do I > understand correctly that it is: application/vnd.olpc-sugar? (There was an > extensive listserv discussion of the topic last year.) Do I also gather > correctly that no changes to my activities are needed? (I assume not.) > > I'm looking forward to this co-host option. > > Art Hunkins _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
