Comments on: AICC test suite doesn’t work on XP SP2 by default

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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:59:55 +0000

[...] also an AICC/CMI Test Suite available to test your content (be sure to read Dave’s detailed instructions for getting it to work on Windows XP [...]

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:49:50 +0000

Hi..

The entire thread was very useful. I want to use AICC test suit with Tomcat server instead of Apache. Because I want to emulate the case sensitive unix environment of our eLearning courses?

Is it possible to configure AICC test suit with Tomcat. I tried, copying all the six files into root directory of tomcat. But, I didn’t have clue what is equivalent for cgi-bin in tomcat. I couldn’t find cgi-bin folder in the tomcat directory.

Any inputs greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much.

Lokesh.

By: mozealou

mozealou — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:58:10 +0000

Hi Prabu,

Not exactly sure as it has been years since I used the test suite…but you might want to try launching via http://localhost instead of 127.0.0.1…for some reason I recall that it had a problem with IPs.

By: Prabu

Prabu — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:32:27 +0000

Hi Dave,

i have been trying to install the AICC test suite in our machine to test the AICC WBT course. i have installed the apache server and copied all the files as mentioned.When i run the test am getting error like “file not found 404 error”.

I am able to perform the course structure test and all the problem is i amd not ablet to launch the AU’s using the Weblauncher .
Http://127.0.0.1/aicc/index.html wheni clicked this am able to see thelinks but dono how to proceed and whether the procedure is correct or not.

Please help me to achieve this.

Thanks
prabu R

By: mozealou

mozealou — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:23:16 +0000

Hey Mike, Good question. It has honestly been over 2 years since I used the AICC Test Suite, so I don't recall how to use it. I do remember that the AICC test suite does a really poor job of testing content. What I do now to test AICC content is use an AICC based LMS to test. In the past I have had access to Saba's LMS for testing AICC content, but for some reason Saba now thinks it is a good idea to charge us $5,000 to verify our content works in their LMS. Now I use moodle to test content (more info on getting moodle cheaply here. Then I use a program called HTTPAnalyzer to actually watch the communication that is happening between the content and Moodle.

By: Mike Taylor

Mike Taylor — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:06:27 +0000

Thanks Dave. This worked great to get the AICC Test Suite running. But I’m a little lost on HOW to run the darn thing. Do you know if there are any instructions anywhere with some step by step “how to” type info? I can’t figure out what files to point to in which places etc.

THANKS!!!
Mike

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:02:00 +0000

If you are running your web server on anything other than the default port (80) then you will have to edit index.html so the the links have the port number appended to them i.e. 127.0.0.1 becomes 127.0.0.1:8080 for port 8080

By: LMS Guy

LMS Guy — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:00:00 +0000

I don’t install Apache to run as a webservice. I rarely use Apache (typically just for testing AICC content in the AICC Test Suite, actually), so I would rather not have it running as a service. I launch the DOS box manually, when I’m ready to test AICC content/apache. There might still be a step where you have to launch the AICC CMI Test Suite (exe) before web-based content will launch/work in XP.