Adapt Learning Community: Adapt course won't load

Hi,

I can't get an Adapt course to run on a local drive or from an http address in any browser other than Firefox.

I've installed and built a default instance of Adapt, I've even tried removing the SCORM functionality with '$ adapt uninstall contrib-spoor' in case this was causing it to fail. The course will run in other browsers if I upload it , including the SCORM functionality, to SCORM Cloud. Anywhere else I simply get the loading anim continually spinning.

Am I missing something obvious here? Is there a browser setting I need to change, or something that needs to be supported or configured?

Thanks,

Nick

Hi Nick

Since it works on other servers, perhaps its down to whatever web server you're using not having the json mime-type set up (as Chris Jones mentions here)

Strange that it still works in Firefox though

Does it work if you run via $grunt server?

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Hi Matt,

I wondered about MIME types too, but since it behaves in the same way on my local C drive (doesn't work in Chrome or IE, does work in Firefox) I discounted it. I'll check the server all the same.

It does work fine with Grunt server. Do I need to be running it from a server or should I be able to simply launch from the index.html file on a local drive?

It's not just my PC that behaves like this either.

Nick

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Hey Nick,

We do fetch requests to JSON files so you'll always need to run Adapt from a server. Firefox allows cross browser scripting and this is why JSON files are loaded in. This is why we've included a node server by running $ grunt server

Thanks,

Daryl

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You can make IE run local content by selecting 'Allow active content to run in files on My Computer' in Internet Options > Advanced > Security. I never worked out how to get Chrome to do this though (not that I've tried very hard).

If I switch off that setting, or load the content locally in Chrome, I get the same results as you.

If if you can get it to run locally, I would still always run it from a server (which is why - as Daryl points out - Adapt includes $grunt server).

Even when you can get it working locally, the different security permissions and behaviours that browsers apply to content run via the file:// protocol means that you could get very different behaviour to that of the content running from a server.

Hope this helps!

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