Cosign and cron

Having got EdWeb working with EASE, I went back and tried it against our weblogin CoSign service, and that too works. My initial problems were probably the openldap issue that EASE had.

I’ve still not got a clear way to access a site as “admin” once EASE/Cosign is enabled, other than temporarily disabling the UoE LDAP and EASE modules, and reverting to the old way.

I’m looking at an “admin” site that uses basic auth, so I can sign in as “admin”, and though that has a slight success, it then fails with what looks like a failure to find “admin” in the LDAP and then extract an email address, and role information for him. I’m not sure if that should be considered a bug or not.

Also had a look at cron, has Kenny was having problems with the new scheduling on our test 1.10. A mail to UWS Tech suggests that using the wget and cron key is the way to do it, rather than using drush (which I’d been experimenting with).

 

EdWeb 1.10 and EASE

EdWeb 1.10

There have been a couple of updates since we last updated web.inf to 1.7, but each one has had issues which stopped us (and Maths) from upgrading.

http://dist.drupal.is.ed.ac.uk/project/uoe_distribution

But Mairi and co. have been very helpful in trying to solve the problems, and it now looks like we’re just about there, with the future 1.10 release addressing the problems, and including a Drupal security update.

The 1.10 will mean that our only local patch will be for the local search. I’ve created a new version of the patch, as the page template has changed, and though it does work, it’s introduced some extra white space I’m not happy about. However, Kenny’s happy to just apply that as it is for now, rather than delay 1.10 (when it appears).

EASE

I’ve also been looking at this again, and have made some progress. webtest.inf is now EASE authenticated, and after some problems with ldap binding to the IS server, it now seems to work for users who already have a local EdWeb account on the site (ie me).

https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/CSEDR/EdWeb+installation+hints

However it isn’t working for people who don’t have a local account, it is supposed to be created on the fly, but I’m getting error messages. Looking at those will be my next action. David McKain has given me some hopefully useful debugging options for LDAP in case LDAP is the issue:

(1) drush vset -y ldap_help_watchdog_detail 1

should turn logging on

(2) drush vdel -y ldap_help_watchdog_detail

should turn it off again

The log messages go into the Drupal watchdog table, aka the 'recent log messages'
report. You can view these either within the GUI, or using drush commands. Do
'drush help | grep watchdog' to see the drush commands.