Moodle on Fedora 16

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 01/12/2012 07:39 AM, Ester Muñoz Aparicio wrote:
> Hello list members!
> 
> I'm having a hard time trying to make moodle work on my Fedora 16.
> 
> Few days ago I got the greatest news: one of my clients is moving
> to Moodle and that means a lot of work for this year. The Moodle
> server will be in their headquarters and someone will take care of
> it, so no problem there. But I have to move 80 and something
> courses from another CMS to Moodle, and the production server will
> not be available in a while...
> 
> I want to setup a local development server to start migrating the 
> courses, and also to maintain them and move ready copies of the
> courses to production.
> 
> Yesterday I installed moodle from the repositories, together with
> a bunch of dependencies, http and php + php modules.
> 
> Then I fought against moodle for the rest of the day as it appears
> that it did not allow me to use any directory to be its data
> directory. I finally solved that this morning with some SElinux
> magic after few hours of reading.
> 
What changes did you have to make to get SELinux to stop complaining?
 maybe we can make these defaults.
> I pointed the browser to localhost/moodle and tada! welcome page.
> Click next. Error, cannot continue, php-zip is missing. I yum
> search for it, and it is not on any repository. I confirmed it does
> not exist in any repo, so.... well, here I am now.
> 
> Questions: - How can I install php-zip? I am comfortable on Linux,
> been using Fedora since it exists, on 3 different computers at
> home. I have made my share of administering them and they all work
> so far :-) although I have never installed anything from source. 
> So, what would be the easiest way to install php-zip? Can I get 
> somewhere the srpm and build it? Or do I really have to uninstall
> php and install from scratch with "enable zip"? This last bit
> scares me.
> 
> - Is it possible somehow to make moodle accept as data folder one
> folder in /home? I couldn't make it work. At the moment it resides
> in /var/www/moodledata, but I'd like to move it under /home as
> this partition is much bigger.
> 
> I'm sure more things will come up, I'd appreciate any and all the
> help you could offer.
> 
> Cheers, Ester

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