salut,
i'm not sure if this is related or independent - for the moment let's assume
it's
part of the same bug...
PROBLEM: It is very difficult in the wims documentation (of different sorts!,
except
possibly on the sympa mailing list archive which is probably not catalogued by
google
because of the antispam button (?)) to find out how the sys admin should carry
out
basic admin tasks. i have failed in 3.62-8. In 3.58, the following hack worked
for me:
(1) in ~wims/log/wims.conf put
manager_site=<MY_IP_NUMBER>
(2) in public_html/themes/default/supervisor.phtml put
<br><small>
!href module=adm/manage $N_manage
</small><br>
somewhere inside the <BODY> ... </BODY>
(3) log in as teacher (supervisor) of a class, and then click on
the management button.
In my present installation of 3.62-8, this hack no longer works, especially
since i can't get (3) to work for my old classes which i have copied (including
dot
files) into log/classes/ . Since i can imagine that some of the parameters and
structures might have changed from 3.58 to 3.62-8, i thought it best to first
try creating a new class. But i cannot create a new class. So this is a circular
loop: i cannot log in as supervisor in order to get administrator access, and i
cannot get administrator access in order to (maybe) fix up what's preventing the
creation of new classes and me becoming a (new) supervisor.
COMMENTS:
The page http://wims.auto.u-psud.fr/wims/faq/fr/portal.html refers to entering
wims
as administrator and going to the "Configuration and maintenance" section - but
doesn't
say how to enter as administrator to start off with.
The page http://wims.auto.u-psud.fr/wims/faq/fr/gestion.html refers to step (1) of
my hack quoted above and says that going to the home page is enough to find a link
for "gestion du site en-ligne" but i can't see the link. The hack quoted above
was inspired by the page gestion.html.
BTW: i think today's classes will certainly be without wims - i want to be sure that
everything's stable and functioning before using the upgraded version in practice.
BTW(2): i think wims is great and powerful software. A weak point for
wider usage is that sysadmin requires quite a bit of time in
grepping/hacking for someone of intermediate gnu/linux experience -
which is probably a common problem of any package which is good at the
deep, core level but not (yet) subjected to installing by thousands or
hundreds of thousands of (e.g.) home sysadmins and the subsequent
evolutionary pressure on the software installation/management
user-friendliness: wims is not gimp or xmms. Moreover, since wims allows
(e.g.) university servers to be used by local school teachers, the latter
may concentrate on course creation and not local installation. Anyway, this
is getting offtopic from the bug report, sorry.
amities
boud
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Boud Roukema wrote:
Package: wims
Version: 3.62-8
Severity: important
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