Windows 10: Static assets are not consistently collected during installation

[benjaoming]

Summary

We had a couple of reports of the same issue, seems to be Windows 10 specific?

https://community.learningequality.org/t/ka-lite-doesnt-serve-javascript-assets-in-windows-10/246/8

Version

• Installer: Windows 10
• Version: 0.17.0 - 0.17.1

Screenshots

[benjaoming]

There's a pretty good reason over in the community forum, quoting it here:

Hello,
I just installed it on my Windows 10 Pro machine and it works fine.
I suggest you try a fresh install but don't install Python and KA Lite on the system drive (C:), in my past experience with other files Windows 10 tends to lock down files on the system drive.

I installed Python and KALite on D: instead (remember to point KAlite to the pip.exe in the Python folder when it asks).
Give it a shot, might just work.

Also, when you start the server for the first time wait for two prompts - the first one will tell you the server is now starting - the second prompt will confirm the server is up and running - you can confirm this by launching from the tray icon instead of typing the url in the browser.

EDIT: Do you have any chrome plugins that are ad/script blockers? Disable those for the KALite site url if you do.

Regards,
Aditya

[mrpau-richard]

Hi @benjaoming I've difficulty to reproduce this issue in Win 10 pro & Win 10 enterprise 64 bit, Using KA Lite windows installer 0.17.1. The kalite data and python installed path is also in the system drive (C:) and I haven't encountered any issue.

[benjaoming]

@mrpau-richard

From Aditya's message:

Also, when you start the server for the first time wait for two prompts - the first one will tell you the server is now starting - the second prompt will confirm the server is up and running - you can confirm this by launching from the tray icon instead of typing the url in the browser.

I'm not sure of the exact messages, but is it possible to tweak the first one to say for instance "The server is now starting, please wait to be notified..." so the user knows another message is coming?

[radinamatic]

@benjaoming Good suggestion, it might clarify a bit the steps for the user! 🙂