[LON-CAPA-admin] JSmol and /adm/ folder location

Bynum, Lee Hamilton leebynum at illinois.edu
Mon Nov 9 15:44:05 EST 2015


Thank You Stuart and Bob,

It's good to know I am not just crazy.  If we're missing one module we may be missing others.

Lee

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org [mailto:lon-capa-admin-
> bounces at mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Raeburn
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 2:30 PM
> To: lon-capa-admin at mail.lon-capa.org
> Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-admin] JSmol and /adm/ folder location
> 
> Lee,
> 
> > ... I suspect I am either looking in the  wrong location or that the
> > javascript modules didn't update with the  updater.
> 
> It appears that for some reason the LON-CAPA servers in the uiuc
> domain do not have jsmol installed, as the file I find at a URL of:
> 
> /adm/jmol/Jmol.js
> 
> on access1, access2, access3, access4, library1 and balance1 in your
> domain is exclusively for jmol (instead of being a combination file to
> support both jmol and jsmol, as expected for 2.11.1).
> 
> The files and directories needed are:
> /home/httpd/html/adm/jmol/Jmol.js
> /home/httpd/html/adm/jmol/j2s
> /home/httpd/html/adm/jmol/java
> 
> Installation/update of LON-CAPA 2.11.1 is designed to take care of
> installing the necessary file but it apparently failed on your
> servers. (I'm guessing either a missing dependency or some other
> shell-script issue).
> 
> To install now, do:
> 
> cd /some_path_to_2.11.1/loncom/html/adm/jmol
> 
> replacing some_path_to_2.11.1 with whatever the actual path is to the
> loncapa-2.11.1 directory created by uncompressing the
> loncapa-2.11.1.tar.gz tarball and then run:
> 
> /bin/bash commands
> 
> If this fails to install, it may because you are missing a dependency
> (e.g. bc or unzip) which the "commands" script uses.  Look at the
> output when you run: /bin/bash commands
> 
> The URL for this web page:
> /res/msu/raeburn/testing/jmol/jsmolwebpage.html
> 
> is for a resource published public to the LON-CAPA content repository
> which includes javascript to call jmolApplet().
> 
> By default this will render using jsmol/HTML5, but Java will be used
> if ?_USE=JAVA is appended (e.g., display:
> https://s10.lite.msu.edu/res/msu/raeburn/testing/jmol/jsmolwebpage.html
> )
> 
> 
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
> 
> 
> Quoting "Bynum, Lee Hamilton" <leebynum at illinois.edu>:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been asked to confirm that 2.11.1 includes JSmol.  Looking at
> > the documentation, it appears that it should.  However, I've looked
> > into the /home/httpd/html/adm/ folder and have not found JSmol or
> > updated versions of jmol.  I suspect I am either looking in the
> > wrong location or that the javascript modules didn't update with the
> >  updater.  The former is much more likely.
> >
> > Can someone point me to where these modules live on the server?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Lee
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