Moodle on Fedora 16
Roger
arelem at bigpond.com
Fri Jan 13 22:22:23 UTC 2012
Hello
May I suggest, if at all possible, 'Forget Cutting Edge Fedora of any
version' for business and enterprise application.
Cutting edge Fedora is volatile and in my understanding, unsuitable for
most real life on going enterprises until it gets to end of life, by
then a New Fedora with attendant problems is churned out.
There are stable OS options which work well with Moodle. Clients are
more important than problematic operating systems.
FWIW
Roger
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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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