Forum OpenACS Development: LORS, Evaluation, Assessment, User-Tracking update

1. LORS stable is at oacs-5-1, the new LORS and the lors-central package is been worked at oacs-5-2, it already has upgrade scripts from the 5-1 version and the aim is to make it stable for production use in the next days. Bug-fixes and new development will go into oacs-5-2. **

2. Evaluation, is stable in oacs-5-1 & oacs-5-2, the main difference is that oacs-5-2 now uses the TCL CR API, the upgrade should be easy from 5-1 to 5-2. Further development will happen at oacs-5-2. **

3. Assessment has an stable release in oacs-5-2, the bug fixes & small enhancements will go into oacs-5-2.

4. User-tracking, will continue its development fron now on oacs-5-2 branch.

** There won't be a merge between the 2 branches (many differences), so if you want something in both, commit in both.

Lors-central 0.1a4 from oacs-5-2 requires:

Learning Object Repository Service 0.6d4
Clipboard 0.1d
LORS Management 0.7d

But then the portlet stuff is missing:

dotLRN LORS Management Applet 0.4d

Shall I install that as well?

What is recommended HEAD, oacs-5-1, oacs-5-2 or does this depend on the package?

I am trying to get the user-tracking package to work and could use a little help.

I have installed the user-tracking package from cvs (5-1 branch as it is a .lrn installation - I will also try the 5-2 branch).

I have also installed the extendedheaders config as per https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=291877

I have also installed the Time::Local perl module required by the awstats perl script (and verified that it can run).

My server access log is showing the user id and the community id as expected.

When I click on any of the generate stats links or wait for the scheduled proc to run, I see the script getting run in the error.log, but I never see any of the resulting .dat or awstats/* files that the code indicates should be created.

Hence, I always see "no data for this month".

Can you give me some pointers about how to get it up and running?

Cheers,

Mark.

CVS is such a pain - if you do your FIRST checkin of a file with execute bit, it will checkout with the execute bit. Otherwose you're doomed. Maybe it can be fixed right on the repository, but I'm not in favour of direct cvs repository manipulation ;)

So I fixed that and then discovered that there were harde coded references to elane in the logfile names in loading.tcl and loading2.tcl

If you like I can change that over to use the variables from the nsd config file but you may prefer to do that yourself - let me know.

Also, while it feels a bit nasty, the post-install apm callback could do a chmod on logresolvemerge.pl to make it executable.

a) the stats are fantastic - this is a really valuable addition.

b) there are some fairly horrible security issues to do with the way file names are passed in via the GET string

I am hunting down a bug in the visits by user - if I can't get anywhere with it i'll post a bug.

Not sure if this is to do with my site config, but there is an extra piece of junk info (some floating point number) before the quoted user id.

I just had to change the LogFormat config value to:

LogFormat= "%host %other %other %time1 %methodurl %code %bytesd %refererquot %uaquot %other %lognamequot %extra1

Fixed. Please update the code and try again. That happened because a couple of months ago some upgrades were made to the package, but it was not tested well, so if you find any other bug don't hesitate to tell me (contact me by email if you want).

Regards,

Jose Pablo