[Server-devel] Schools Wikipedia

[Andra DuPont]

Chris... thanks,

> Hi,
> 
>> I'm getting confused on this. I followed the 4 steps Chris
>> outlined and was able to access Wikipedia using Browse at
>> schoolserver:4567. The overall browser activity seemed to slow
>> down, and I could not figure out how to stop the python server
>> and regain control short of rebooting.
> 
> You can stop the python server with the usual Unix process techniques;
> control-C in the terminal where it's running, or ps awux followed by
> kill.
> 
> The wikipedia server shouldn't slow down the browser, since there
> isn't any computation being done on the browser (other than rendering
> the received HTML from the server).

I'm getting 100s of messages on the server when an XO browses to a new
link on the Wikipedia site. They fly by so fast it is hard to read, but some
start with "Debug:" and the latter ones that are still on the screen say
things like:

	"line 302 column 6 - Warning: trimming empty <p>"

Is this normal?

I will do some testing to see if there is a significant speed difference with
the Wikipedia server running.

> 
>> David seems to be suggesting that it is not necessary to use the
>> server.py approach with Browse, but use the Wikipedia activities
>> directly. I am going to try that now. How can I point the
>> activity to the Wikipedia data on the server? I would like a
>> large Wikipedia encyclopedia on the server that the XOs access,
>> rather than having to store the info on each XO.
> 
> It's possible to use the activities directly if you want the info to
> be on each XO.  If you want to use the server, you need to be running
> server.py on the server and pointing the browsers at it.
> 
> - Chris.
> -- 
> Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
> One Laptop Per Child