-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/10/2013 02:03 AM, Ester Muoz 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) > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFlbUQACgkQrlYvE4MpobPzcQCeIcE2g9TlhxDCmw6775Iw/XwE sF8AniEIMrZY0K/ioYfKEr44vUA6zw0s =CWDk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
