f18 moodle setup

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 04/10/2013 10:35 AM, Remi Collet wrote:
> Le 10/04/2013 15:46, Daniel J Walsh a écrit :
>> On 04/10/2013 02:03 AM, Ester Mu￱oz Aparicio wrote:
>>> El 10/04/13 00:47, M A Young escribi￳:
>>>> On Tue, 9 Apr 2013, Vir￡gh J￡nos wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> After
>>>>> 
>>>>> #yum install moodle
>>>>> 
>>>>> what's  the proper way of configuring and starting moodle on Fedora
>>>>> 18?
>>>> 
>>>> You just need to tell the config.php file how to find your database -
>>>> see the /usr/share/doc/moodle-2.3.6/README-rpm file.
>>>> 
> 
>>> You also need to fix SElinux permissions (see below)
> 
>>>> However, there is a problem with the current Fedora and EPEL moodle
>>>> packages because they remove some php QuickForm files that the moodle
>>>> source ships with in favour of Fedora's packaged version.
>>>> Unfortunately moodle is expecting a couple of extra files that aren't
>>>> in the Fedora version because they are now obsolete.
>>>> 
>>>> Michael Young
>>>> 
>>>> 
> 
>>> I had lots of problems to install moodle into Fedora, and also you
>>> should know that every time it is updated by yum you will need to fix
>>> permissions (SELinux mostly).
> 
>>> I work developing courses in moodle for my clients (schools) and they
>>> have a certain version of moodle in their servers. To keep everything
>>> simple, I installed in my computer the same version they have and I do
>>> not want yum to update it.
> 
>>> To put it to work, I ended up using the rpm from moodle.org, and yum
>>> localinstall it so that it would pull dependecies. All the php and
>>> mysql packages are from remi collet's repository (again it was just
>>> easier than fight against Fedora's packages).
> 
>>> From my notes:
> 
>>> install moodle, mysql, mysql-server give permisions to apache to the
>>> moodle folder /var/www/moodle
>> Well we had the correct label for /var/www/moodledata(/.*)? 
>> gen_context(system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_rw_content_t,s0)
> 
>> I will update policy and Fix it for RHEL6, and all Supported Fedora.
> 
>> /var/www/moodle(/.*)? 
>> gen_context(system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_rw_content_t,s0)
> 
I guess this should be
/var/www/moodle/data(/.*)?
 gen_context(system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_rw_content_t,s0)

> Why this ? Does we really need to allow apache to "write" the moodle web
> pages ?
> 
> currently : $ ll -Z /var/www/moodle/ drwxr-xr-x. apache apache
> system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 data drwxr-xr-x. root   root
> system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 web
> 
Sounds good to me, please open a bugzilla.
I also already added labeling for /var/lib/moodle

> @moodle packager, Why not use a more standard (FHS) layout
> 
> /var/www/moodle/web  => /usr/share/moodle /var/www/moodle/data =>
> /var/lib/moodle
> 
> @Dan, we already have some other web app with SElinux context (ex, see 
> glpi), managed in package scriptlet. Do you really plan to add all this
> directories in default policy ?
> 
> 
> Remi.
> 
> 
> 
>>> chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_rw_t /var/www/moodle setup moodle 
>>> database in mysql edit config.php to add login, passw, root for www
> 
>>> Then, when updating with yum, remember to exclude moodle. Anyway, you
>>> don't want it to be updated every few weeks if you are developing
>>> courses for others like I do.
> 
>>> Keep in mind that I only develop courses in this server, and then 
>>> transfer them for teaching... I mean, this is just development. I do
>>> not have students or other users accessing so I don't know how would
>>> that go. If this would be a live server I would not go for Fedora, I
>>> would pick some other linux flavour that does not change so quickly.
> 
>>> HTH, Ester
> 
> 
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