[Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 13, Issue 19

[Jim Simmons]

Art,

I have been able to host .xo files on a web server in my home.   It
was an Apache web server provided with my Linux distro and I did
nothing whatever to configure it for .xo files.  I used this web
server on my development box so I could copy my Activities from my
development box to my XO without copying them to and from a thumb
drive.  It worked just fine.

Now whatever was done to your web server makes your .xo files
downlload with a .zip suffix.  When I tried to download one of them I
got a file named OurMusic-1.xo.zip.  The extra .zip suffix is what
prevents Sugar from recognizing your Activity as a .xo file.

So perhaps your tech needs to undo what he just did.  Apache doesn't
need to know what a .xo file is to make it available to download, and
.xo's are not a standard MIME type.

James Simmons


> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:29:35 -0500
> From: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Co-hosting my own activities?
> To: "Lucian Branescu" <lucian.branescu at gmail.com>,      "Aleksey Lim"
>        <alsroot at member.fsf.org>
> Cc: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Message-ID: <BCB9640E8CB44D839D0CED2795867795 at Art>
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> This may well be the problem - with SoaS as well as XO-1 not recognizing downloads of .xo activity bundles from my website. (The "activity download" is not placed in the Activities folder, nor does it appear with its proper icon in the Journal. Download otherwise appears normal.)
>
> I think so because, when I was chatting with tech at my server about why .xo bundles could not be found on my site, he asked me what the MIME type was for the bundles; I'd no idea even what MIME types were. I did tell him that .xo bundles were "just like" .zip archives; so he did something that made .xo's findable and downloadable (probably gave them the .zip MIME type).
>
> At any rate, I gather I need to tell him the *appropriate* MIME type. Do I understand correctly that it is: application/vnd.olpc-sugar? (There was an extensive listserv discussion of the topic last year.) Do I also gather correctly that no changes to my activities are needed? (I assume not.)
>
> I'm looking forward to this co-host option.
>
> Art Hunkins