Open edX Notes & Annotations

[Lawrence McDaniel]

hi everyone, in case you're interested i wrote the following blog post that is a supplement to the official documentation, “How to Get edX Notes Running“, covering installation and configuration. if you don't yet have it, Notes is a fantastic addition to your Open edX installation. feel free to share or repost.

thanks!

lawrence mcdaniel

[glocad]

Hello Lawrence,

Thanks for this great post!

I am using an ubuntu 16.04 gcp machine and did deploy ginkgo master on it.
For the notes feature I followed exactly the same steps as in your post and everything from the installation part went well.
The problem is that I can not access any dashboard. Every webservice is timedout and a blank page appears after.

I did insert the following at server-vars.yml :

EDXAPP_ENABLE_EDXNOTES: true
EDXAPP_FEATURES:
 ENABLE_EDXNOTES: "{{ EDXAPP_ENABLE_EDXNOTES }}"
EDXAPP_EDXNOTES_PUBLIC_API: http://edxtest.ml:18120/api/v1
EDXAPP_EDXNOTES_INTERNAL_API: http://edxtest.ml:18120/api/v1
lms_env_config:
 EDXNOTES_PUBLIC_API: "{{ EDXAPP_EDXNOTES_PUBLIC_API }}"
 EDXNOTES_INTERNAL_API: "{{ EDXAPP_EDXNOTES_INTERNAL_API }}"

All the assets are updated successfully and all the migrations are done successfully.
I did set notes as true even in cms.env.json, lms/envc/common.py and cms/envs/common.py .

All openedx services are up and running including notes_api. I can not see any error from the logs.
Any idea why this problem occurs?

Thank you !

[Lawrence McDaniel]

hello! have you reviewed your port setting on your firewall? for infrastructure are you using AWS or something else? if it turns out that your ports are not the problem then we can talk offline if you’d like.

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[glocad]

Hello again Lawrence,

Thank you very much for your reply!
I checked the ports and all of them are active and listening.
I am using google cloud platform and did update the firewalls rules to allow access in every port.

What I observed also during the 4th step is the ssh connection is terminated after the execution
of an ansible task related with 'aws: update ssh'. After that I lose even the http service.

That ssh termination does not happen if I use google ssh terminal.

Thank you again!