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Help with Content Server

Hello everyone,

We currently have an external windows IIS server that we store all of our course content on. In our existing LMS, when we create a course we point the course to our content server where the content resides so when i user launches the course in our LMS, the data is pulled from the content server. How do we acheive this same behavior in Totara? When i click to create a new course in Totara, i scroll down to the Course Summary Files section and click to add a course file, but there is no option to tell it that the content is remotely served. Help!

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Hi John,

There's some guidance here which you may find useful. Let me know if you have any further queries.

cheers,

George.

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Hi George,

From the link you provided, it says to do the below. However, we do not have anything in our list called 'File System'. We only have the one called 'Server Files' which is states to ignore.

Enabling the File System repository plugin

Go to Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Repositories > Manage Repositories;
Select from the drop down next to File system "Enabled and visible"

Note: Ignore the similarly named repository 'Server Files' (enabled by default).

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Hi John,

It should be there. Is this a production site? What version are you using? Has there been any custom work?

cheers,

George.

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Hi George,

We are in the middle of configuring our environments to get ready to go live with the system, so although it is technically our production environment, we don't have any clients in it yet.

We are are the most recent version, 2.9.6.1

What kind of custom work do you mean? Configurations or code development? We've obviously done configurations to the system but we haven't touched any of the repository stuff yet. We've done some small custom code, but it's essentially loosely coupled with the system and sits outside of the totara code and would not have any effect on the base code.

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Hi John,

I was just wondering why its not there. Can you confirm it doesnt appear at:

/ ► Site administration / ► Plugins / ► Repositories / ► Manage repositories

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Correct, we do not have that in our list for some reason?

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Hi John,

It looks like its been uninstalled. Can you check if there is a 'filesystem' folder in the 'repository' folder in the code? if there isnt can you get a copy from a recent install or from a download and drop it into the 'repository folder'?

cheers,

George.

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