[LON-CAPA-admin] editing problems on the server

[Raeburn, Stuart]

Nathan,

I would *not* edit files in res/winona/NMoore directly.

I do not see a good reason not to allow LON-CAPA's "Publish" action to take care of copying resources from priv/winona/NMoore/ to res/winona/NMoore, and to handle versioning, to insert missing id attributes, to send update notifications to nodes currently subscribed to a previously published resource in the winona domain (when you republish it after making changes), etc.

If you prefer to use some editor other than your web browser when authoring content, you could use webDAV.  See section 18 "WebDAV access to Authoring Space" on p. 137 of the Authoring Manual (loncapa.winona.edu/adm/help/author.manual.pdf).

If you are using Ubuntu, and want to use webDAV, you need to have enabled mod_dav using:

sudo a2enmod dav
sudo a2enmod dav_fs

Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

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From: LON-CAPA-admin <lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org> on behalf of Moore, Nathan T <nmoore at winona.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 7, 2019 1:07 PM
To: list about administration and system updating
Subject: [LON-CAPA-admin] editing problems on the server

I’m currently coding in problems from OpenStax University Physics.  I’ve been using the web interface to author, which is fine.  I was wondering today if I could just directly compose (or copy problems over to)  the “/home/httpd/html/res” directory, as this is where the problems seem to reside?

Is this the only place my library of problems lives?
/home/httpd/html/res/winona/NMoore

This is the contents of a chapter, showing the problems, .meta, and the .subscription files, which look like track changes…

root at LonCappa:/home/httpd/html/res/winona/NMoore/openstax-university-physics-1/ch1# ls
p46b.1.problem                    p46.problem.meta               p48.problem.meta
p46b.1.problem.meta               p46.problem.meta.subscription  p48.problem.meta.subscription
p46b.1.problem.meta.subscription  p46.problem.subscription       p48.problem.subscription
p46b.problem                      p47.problem                    p50.problem
p46b.problem.meta                 p47.problem.meta               p50.problem.meta
p46b.problem.meta.subscription    p47.problem.meta.subscription  p50.problem.meta.subscription
p46b.problem.subscription         p47.problem.subscription
p46.problem                       p48.problem

or
root at LonCappa:/home/httpd/html/res/winona/NMoore/openstax-university-physics-1/ch1# ls -l p46b.problem*
-rw-r--r-- 1 www www  487 Jan 17  2017 p46b.problem
-rw-r--r-- 1 www www 1337 Jan 17  2017 p46b.problem.meta
-rw-r--r-- 1 www www  188 Oct 28 10:58 p46b.problem.meta.subscription
-rw-r--r-- 1 www www  122 Aug 20 17:24 p46b.problem.subscription

Is this working too close to the edge?  I assume I’d need to work (or chmod the problems) as the www user.  Is there an additional database that would need to be updated?

Thanks!


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Nathan Moore, PhD
Physics, Winona State University