Importing Scalar Book from Other Domain

Third Party Applications Scalar
#1

Greetings, comrades. I’ve installed Scalar 2 into my domain, and all looks good. However, when I try to import my students’ Scalar books (housed in their own domains) to my Scalar install - - via target public url - - the import won’t go through. Oddly, when I import books into my Scalar account at scalar.usc.edu - - import proceeds happily and successfully.

Why the difference? Is there some server-side bolt I need to attach more securely etc.?

Grazie
Larry H.

PS It’s fine if the book copies are stored on the scalar.usc.edu site, but I really wanted to shelve them in my domain to keep them should students not renew/continue their domains (via Reclaim).

#2

That is indeed odd. Can you shoot me some example URLs of books to test with? (If you want to PM with the URLs that’s fine).

#3

Sure - - public scalar books (to be imported into Reclaim hosted scalar install):

http://scalar.paxiplace.com/education/wikipedia-scalar-project/index

#4

Apparently if you try to import an http URL from an https instance of Scalar or vice versa the mismatch causes issues. When I logged into your Scalar install from http and imported the http URL for http://scalar.paxiplace.com/education/wikipedia-scalar-project/index that went through so I would give it a try with the others keeping that in mind.

#5

Very interesting . . .but why do think the scalar.usc.edu site will import from the https vs. my install of scalar?

#6

When you were importing the books were you on the https version of your site or http? I’m kind of just guessing this is the cause since when I switched I was able to import (I started first with https for your instance, I see the http://scalar.usc.edu/ instance is not https so perhaps http can import regardless but https can only import other https URLs). Let me know if there’s an import that still fails.

#7

Makes sense. I was importing via the https version. ('Though I was importing from https versions - - so, in a sense, no mismatch. Perhaps it’s just importing into an https setup?)

In any case, thanks a million for the help! Hope all is well and feliz ano nuevo.

#8