500 error while open demo course

[wzymaster]

500 error while open demo course

[eltoncarr]

@wzymaster, did you may any customizations? Also, I noticed that you are referencing the comprehensive/lms/template. Is this a custom theme you created? It may not be applicable to your scenario.

[wzymaster]

It's a full-stack deployment from Azure Edx at https://github.com/Microsoft/oxa-tools, and I didn't do any customization or apply any custom theme to it.

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On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 2:21 AM, Elton Carr, II ***@***.***> wrote: @wzymaster <https://github.com/wzymaster>, did you may any customizations? Also, I noticed that you are referencing the comprehensive/lms/template. Is this a custom theme you created? It may not be applicable to your scenario. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#273 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AC1GROJ_G9DVU8xkXBfucGXE4v6tD4Rvks5tL4u0gaJpZM4RiX-f> .

-- thanks Leo Wu

[sdolenc]

To help narrow down the possible causes:

1. Are you using onebox.sh ?
2. If so, what parameters did you invoke onebox.sh with?
3. Which branch of oxa-tools did you use,

[wzymaster]

1. Yes, I am using onebox.sh to deploy this stack
2. command is ./onebox.sh -d hokiePokiePass11 to deploy
3. I always use master branch

[wzymaster]

actually, I identified that this issue is caused by % if course.display_org_with_default in my_course_org_filter: in edx/app/edxapp/themes/comprehensive/lms/templates/courseware/course_about.html file.

After I commented out this line, I get error like :

Unauthorized access. Error Code: 1001

[wzymaster]

@sdolenc can you provide me instructions on how to deploy STAMP stack on ubuntu 16 ? The attached doc. is only related to deployment on windows using Power Shell.

I deployed my stack using ./onebox.sh -d hokiePokiePass11 on a clean ubuntu 16 box on Azure.

Please advise and your help is highly appreciated !

[sdolenc]

to clarify:

• STAMP deployment is a high availability "production-like" environment. Both Mongo and MySql databases are replicated across multiple VMs. The "frontend" machines running the web application are part of a Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) which is designed to scale to multiple machines based on system load. The instructions for deploying a STAMP currently assume you are using a Windows machine.
• The onebox deployments are for experimentation and is more brittle. It deploys an edx instance that is similar to STAMP functionally, but everything is running on "one box." The databases, django web services, etc are all running on the same machine and sharing the same system resources.

I believe I identified the root cause of the bug you're encountering. There are two longterm solutions we're considering (we could even take both or go an entirely different route):

1. A solution is to make our onebox deployment resemble the functionality of our STAMP deployment even closer. The STAMP deployment includes combined login/registration without custom theming automatically (edx-theme is where this bug is happening). I submitted PR #277 to make the onebox deployment follow that pattern
2. It looks there are fixes that were made in stabilization branch (oxa/release.fic) that haven't yet been merged to our development branch (oxa/dev.fic). I submitted a pull requests microsoft/edx-theme#155 which should hopefully solve this.

In the meantime: you can try either (or both) proposed solutions on a new/clean machine by

1. using "noTheming" branch in oxa-tools before deploying onebox.sh . This will include the fix proposed in #277
2. add -b release to your onebox.sh parameter list. This will ensure you're using oxa/release.fic branches. This means you'll have all the fixes contained in microsoft/edx-theme#155

I hope this helps!

[sdolenc]

we've merged microsoft/edx-theme#155 . I believe the issue should be resolved, but feel free to reopen if you're still encountering it

[wzymaster]

@sdolenc thanks very much and I will give it a try. Before I proceed with new release, I encountered a new issue while doing certificate verification(callback from Microsoft), after disable microsoft theme :

Is it related to the bug that you just merged ?

[sdolenc]

(reopening issue so we can get to the bottom of this)

Strange. I have two theories for what might be going on. Can you send me information about the edx-platform version you're using?

1. navigate to the following directory /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform
2. sudo -H -u edxapp bash
3. git fetch
4. can you send the results of the following commands?
   • git status (branch, number of commits behind, edited files, etc)
   • if the status doesn't return branch then try git branch if that doesn't work then get the full list of branches that contain the current commit with git branch --remote --contains
   • git log -2 (hashes of current and previous commit)

[wzymaster]

@sdolenc here is output from commands :

edxapp@edx:~/edx-platform$ git status
On branch oxa/dev.fic
Your branch is behind 'origin/oxa/dev.fic' by 6 commits, and can be fast-forwarded.
  (use "git pull" to update your local branch)
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

	modified:   lms/djangoapps/student_account/views.py
	modified:   lms/envs/common.py

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

edxapp@edx:~/edx-platform$ git branch
* oxa/dev.fic

edxapp@edx:~/edx-platform$ git branch --remote --contains
  origin/HEAD -> origin/oxa/dev.fic
  origin/ananth/bugfix-90913
  origin/ananthu/bug-404-fix
  origin/ananthu/bugfix-103970
  origin/ananthu/bugfix-404-issue
  origin/ananthu/bugfix404-final
  origin/d2r
  origin/disableCMSPII
  origin/oxa/bug-httponly
  origin/oxa/dev.fic
  origin/oxa/master.fic
  origin/oxa/release.fic
  origin/removePII2rel
  origin/removePIIstudent
  origin/restreicted_perm

edxapp@edx:~/edx-platform$ git log -2
commit 1b7b5caf4a6712fe5397868e21ed5a22dd73408a
Author: Kabir Khan <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Dec 22 15:48:13 2017 -0800

    Fixing build timeouts with travis_wait (#182)

    * Fixing build timeouts with travis_wait

    * Build on travis

    * Fixing newly failing localization test

commit b65bdea6bef8fbec875eb31434d2052e794128b0
Author: Kabir Khan <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Dec 15 14:00:29 2017 -0800

    OAuth Restricted Application APIs (#174)

    * Restricted application statistics3 (#173)

    * update code coverage settings

    * fixing code cov target

    * initial grades api implementation

    * adding v1 urls to lms

    * Added CourseAccess exception

    * adding self

    * Added initial pagination functionality

    * Initial functionality for pagination of bulk grades

    * Initial functionality for pagination of bulk grades

    * Fixing formatting

    * Fixing formatting

    * deleted to get old formatting back hopefully

    * adding back views

    * Fixing pagination

    * Improvements to bulk grades api

    * Refactored and added organization filtering

    * Adding tests

    * Adding more tests

    * removing extra indent

    * Patching view read/create function

    * Restricted oauth changes

    * Test fixes

    * Build on travis

    * Patch tests with setting to auto expire access tokens

    * fixing tests and quality errors

    * Fixed grades test

    * Fixes quality error

    * Adding grades api improvements

    * Improvements to restricted oauth setup of grades api v1

    * Fixing tests, bulk grades admin needs staff access not superuser

    * Removing BULK_GRADES_ADMIN setting

    * Fixing enrollment org_filter tests

    * 1. Added allowedusers filter to the restricted application model.
    2. Get course grades if all user who are enrolled in a course.
    3. New scope "statistics" to pull grades informationof all users enrolled in a course with elevated permission.
    4. Added permission check to valdiate allowed users, ONLY if applicable.

    * adding the missing files

    * Fixing security issues and cleaning up unreached code paths

    * Fixing user function

    * Fixing testing strategy

    * Fixing grades test setup

    * Fixing test error

    (cherry picked from commit e6005553ea27e24be6d64c0f88af4294909c8e93)

    * Updating to trigger build

    * Updating to trigger build

    * Remove unused travis matrix, fix coverage running on test files, fix unit tests.

    * Actually removing unused test matrix

    * Test fixes, removing unused code. ++codecov

    * Fixing quality error

[sdolenc]

A couple things

1. Your deployment is pretty old (from December). That wouldn't normally be a problem, but I believe you're encountering this bug because there was some experimental code in oxa/dev.fic back then. We've since moved that work into oxa/dev.fic_msa of the edx-platform repo as we stabilize those changes.
2. I'm going to try to get the the onebox defaults to align with the code/settings that are deployed as part of STAMP for external partners. This would be a more stable and supported set of configurations. This work would need to be scheduled against our other priorities so I'm not sure when it'll land. In the meantime, I recommend
   • deploying STAMP instead. There are instructions on the readme
   • deploying with onebox on a "fresh" machine (one where you haven't deployed edx yet) with the following settings: a) checkout noTheming branch of the oxa-tools repo and b) using --branches master

I'm closing this one since I believe those workaround will unblock you. Please open new issue(s) for any future problems.

In any event, I apologize for all the difficulty you've encountered. Thank you for identifying these issues. It helps us build a more stable workflow.

[wzymaster]

@sdolenc I just wants to set up a Microsoft Edx so that I am able to acquire certificate from the authorized courses. Can I bypass STAMP configuration ?

I am a bit confused with "a) checkout noTheming branch and b) using --branches master". If I understand it correctly, you mean to use noTheming branch in Git and run onebox.sh with --branches master parameters ?

Are you able to provide me with the full commands to deploy this onto a fresh machine ?

[sdolenc]

We recommend you deploy a STAMP, but if you need to deploy a single-machine instance for some reason then the onebox script will probably work. The additional instructions I provided will allow onebox to align closer with the settings in STAMP. Here are the specific instructions

1. new machine (no attempted edx installation yet)
2. git clone -b noTheming https://github.com/Microsoft/oxa-tools
3. pushd oxa-tools
4. (you could do a git checkout noTheming if you didn't do the -b param in step 2)
5. script log.txt (to record the output of the installation)
6. sudo bash onebox.sh --branches master (and other params depending on what you're trying to do)

I hope that clears things up