OxCLIC MDID_server

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FAQ on Server Set-up Draft Notes

Does MDID run on ASP.NET 2.0?

No. MDID is an ASP.NET 1.1 application, trying to compile or run it on ASP.NET 2.0 will fail spectacularly. It is a common mistake, you must use ASP.NET 1.1!

What MDID Server set-up documentation is there on all of this

See OxCLIC_MDID and also http//MDID.org

A list of all documents is here: http://www.mdid.org/mdidwiki/index.php?title=Special:Allpages

How do I install WebAuth on my IIS server

To take advantage of WebAuth Authentication ( and later use this for authorisation activities within an OxCLIC MDID) you need to install and various kerberos related pieces of software on your IIS server. This set-up process needs to be followed carefully, it is documented on the IT Support Staff wiki:

https://wiki.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itss/WebAuth_IIS

you should now be able to point your browser at the website (using https) and then to the folder you’ve protected, and the magic of passing seamlessly to WebAuth should occur, with you eventually being returned to that folder and it’s contents. This will provide you with a very basic Webauth setup, protecting the web pages you have specified in the config. Every time a user authenticates, a Windows account will be created on the server in the form webauth.<username> (e.g webauth.adrianp or webauth.uzdn0017), and added to a group called WebAuth. You can use this for authorisation purposes, but if you don't want this, set the EnableUserMapping parameter to 0 in the config.

How do I customise MDID to use WebAuth for authentication

T.B.C.

See the project team for the MDID code changes and an important change to how you MDID needs to be run.

What other changes local to Oxford need to be done

T.B.C.

See the project team for an important change for how MDID needs to be run as an application to allow collections to be imported and for connectivity by the remote offline viewer and to allow remote collection searching to take place.

How do I set-up MDID user information and groups

T.B.C.

See the project team for the MYSQL scripts that allow you to import user data and appropriate premade groups appropriate for Oxford.

MDID has a full series of permissons for access to collections and all activities, rather similar to WebLearn. See the http://www.mdid.org/ -> documentation http://www.mdid.org/mdidwiki/index.php?title=Permissions

Also ask project team for advice. We'd recommend the following

How do I import my first collection

T.O.C.

Get the curators handbook .pdf from the MDID site. see http:// Read the workflow documents on the OxCLIC site here see http://

How do I customise the branding of the MDID interface

from https://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0504&L=mdidusers-l&P=2097

>I'm ready to customize the user interface for our campus. Is it OK to do >that?

There shouldn't be any issues whatsoever, we do it ourselves.

>Can we call it something other that MDID...like maybe KatyDID? Can we have >our logo in the banner? What files do I need to edit to make that happen?

Images, including the logo are located in the wwwroot\images folder, to simply replace an image replace it there. If you want to change the look of various areas, the Header, Footer, and stylesheet (CSS) are in the wwwroot\PageTemplate directory, in files called PageHeader.ascx, PageFooter.ascx, and stylesheet.aspx. To change the look of pages specific to an individual page (like the logon screen which is default.aspx), they are in the wwwroot directory.

Changes to the .aspx and .ascx pages will take effect immediately (unlike changing the underlying code of MDID2), and should let you do all of the user interface changes you want.

More here http://ltg.oucs.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/OxCLIC_customising_MDID

Where are the graphics/stylesheets headers for OxCLIC MDID versions

T.O.C.

The OxCLIC header graphics can be obtained from the OxCLIC project team.

How do I set-up remote collection searching

T.O.C. A) How do I search another instance ? B) How do I make my collection searchable by others ?? C) How do I test this ..

How do I check that the teacher offline viewer works with the server instance?

T.O.C.

How do I check that I can download a packaged .zip of slideshow viewer and myslides

T.O.C.

you need to check under packages - slideshow that you have setup things to allow a zip file of slides and application to be created. More information needed (ed?) !!!!

Will it run under LINUX as well as .asp under IIS?

Alas it doesn't seem to be stable. Some notes are here ... https://listserv.jmu.edu:443/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0511&L=mdidusers-l&T=0&F=&S=&P=4198

From our experience ... Prev Windows System

New LAMP system

everything)

slideshows not yet solved)

The consensus on the MDID list (8/06) is that it isn't stable enough on Mono/LINUX to be run as a production server.

See also notes on fun and games with MDID under Mono/Linux on Mac OSX ["OxCLIC_MDID"]