Course not going public?

[Samuel Marks]

My course isn't public for some reason. Ficus deployment. In https://<cms>/settings/advanced/course-v1:<course_id> 'Invitation Only' is set to `false`, and I set the course start date and enrollment start date in https://<cms>/settings/details/course-v1:<course_id> to yesterday.

It doesn't show in the course list, and opening the absolute https://<lms>/courses/course-<course_id>/about link gives a "Page not found" message (with a 404 HTTP status code). That same link works when I'm logged in as a super user.

(if it makes a difference, I've turned off email activation by setting SKIP_EMAIL_VALIDATION in the FEATURES key of /edx/app/edxapp/lms.env.json and /edx/app/edxapp/cms.env.json)

How do I make it public?

Thanks

[Robert Raposa]

Hello Samuel.

Did you figure this out? Have you published the content?

Here is a checklist of activities:

http://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/open-edx-ca/en/latest/releasing_course/course_launching.html

Good luck.

Robert

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[Samuel Marks]

Hi Robert,

Yeah, solved it. - Traced it down to:

def in_preview_mode():
    """
    Returns whether the user is in preview mode or not.
    """
    hostname = get_current_request_hostname()
    preview_lms_base = settings.FEATURES.get('PREVIEW_LMS_BASE', None)
    return bool(preview_lms_base and hostname and hostname.split(':')[0] == preview_lms_base.split(':')[0])

Turns out my PREVIEW_LMS_BASE was set with the same value as my LMS_BASE.

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[Robert Raposa]

Great.  Thanks.

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[Sivakumar]

Had the same issue in my Eucalyptus deployment, your solution helped me resolve it. But right now, as a student, I am not able to add a new post in the discussion forum for some reason. "Add a Post" is not visible for students, whereas it is visible for staff.

How do I make it available for students?

Thanks.

[Samuel Marks]

We really need a configuration file validator. Maybe we can use marshmallow—with some multikey validation steps—and thus centralise all schema validation.

JSON-schema is also an option, although I think certain rules need more complicated logic then JSON-schema facilitates out-of-the-box.

Not having serious validation is a real annoyance to developers and ops who are unfamiliar with the openedx codebase IMHO :\

Samuel Marks
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