Moodle on Fedora 16

[Kernel Guardian]

Regarding comments on Fedora:
even most of people use "cutting edge thing" I will only express BIG
disagreement. (with all politeness even usually use ....)
I'm using Fedora for my production systems for a long long time ago.
Without any problems. From F8 if i remember well.
"cutting edge" could be only rawhide. Last few releases from 14
especially there is a lack of ... seriousness about Quality
Assurance.... if I may say.
About longer life cycle ... it is easier to upgrade installation nor
install latest php on RHEL-based distributions. this is only my point
of view.
I can not remember when one of my production system lived longer than two years.
Nevertheless ...
Regarding moodle on Fedora: (I hope that Daniel will read this :) )
there is a several modifications that have to do to make it operate properly
- default moodle package make 2 dirs under /var/www/moodle: web and
data. data dir have httpd_sys_content_t context. This context prevent
writing under data dir. moodle use this dir intensively for writing.
- first: change context to httpd_sys_rrw_content_t on data dir and,
and for better security change owner and group to apache.
- second: change httpd_can_network_connect_db to on, depending on
cache model in moodle httpd_can_network_memcache to on, and
httpd_can_sendmail to on for sending emails directly from moodle.
After these changes moodle works as a charm on Fedora. My first
production moodle setup was on F12. Latest on F15.

On 14 January 2012 10:37, Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Daniel, Roger and Edik. I will try your suggestions as soon as I
>> can.
>>
>> Regarding the "cutting edge thing", this is just my desktop machine, and I
>> love Fedora. The production server will be somewhere else and will not be
>> managed by me (it's a government training project). And surely it won't be
>> Fedora, they have very competent people there to take care of it (most
>> surely Red Hat server but it is not my decision). I only have a development
>> site so I can work locally on developing the materials, so that when
>> production is set up, we will already know what works for the project and
>> what not (I mean for the training).
>>
>> I'll let you know how it goes.
>> Ester
>>
> Trouble is one can spend a lot of time fixing cutting edge OSes, time that
> may be better spent on dev work. Been There, Done That. Was going to try F16
> on my home pc but the list discussions have kyboshed that because I haven't
> got the time to play nowadays. Flat out developing Drupal Multi sites for a
> nonprofit organisation.
>>
>> CentOS is, very stable Fedora. I truly reccomend using it rather than
>> cutting edge apps for development work.
>> I've got Fedora 14, it's smooth and trouble free but as it is now
>> unsupported am moving to CentOS soon. I use CentOS on the server and because
>> I know Fedora it's home territory.
>> It also has the advantage that, because it's so familiar, it's easy to use
>> Virtualbox, VmWare or similar to set up other Osses like F16, Ubuntu.
>> windows, etc to play with and you won't break your workbench apps.
>> You can use xfce or any GUI desktop that suits your needs.
>
>
> As an aside, My daughter developed a Moodle site for a school project and
> wants her school to move to Moodle but they are fixated on something called
> a VLA, which is not a patch on Moodle and has few if any of Moodle's
> capabilities.
> Please let us know how you are progressing.
> Roger
>
>
>
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