Talk:Installing Moodle on Debian based distributions

TODO Suggest that the mysql secure utility is used. I refer to it in my Amazon EC2 install page. Copy & paste from there. Mention the various extra that need to be installed php-pear etc. Test php by using a phpinfo page

"Secure MySQL server"

Debian (and Ubuntu) MySQL server installation prompts the user to set a password for MySQL root. You can see the corr. dialog in the section MySQL, commented as (set the mysql-root password). So "mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'" thing is obsolete. Visvanath Ratnaweera 01:40, 17 February 2012 (WST)

PHP modules and phpinfo()

Yes, the list of the necessary PHP modules is incomplete.

I want to count them seperately for each Moodle version. The list for 1.9 is there, the others will come as I do a test installation for each version.

Yes, I should add the story of "phpinfo();" single liner. Will do.

Thanks for the feedback. Visvanath Ratnaweera 01:46, 17 February 2012 (WST)

tar archives (for wget) from where?

Hi Brian

20. Dezember 2012, 14:33 Uhr Brian Merritt wrote:
> but please note that that actual files are accessed via sourceforge.net so for most Debian/Ubuntu etc servers it is better to use: sudo wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/moodle/files/Moodle/stable24/moodle-latest-24.tgz and substitute the directory and filename for the version you want to install.
https://docs.moodle.org/22/en/index.php?title=Installing_Moodle_on_Debian_based_distributions&action=historysubmit&diff=99131&oldid=99081

Thanks for the note. I too noticed this. Let's see what the moodle.org admins say: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218503. Visvanath Ratnaweera 02:50, 22 December 2012 (WST)

Riveted back to "wget http://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stableXY/moodle-latest-XY.tgz". see https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218503. Visvanath Ratnaweera 05:16, 9 January 2013 (WST)

Keep content in Moodle Docs

I appreciate your efforts to help folks know how to install Moodle on Debian based distributions. I believe that the content of the article from your blog should be maintained inside Moodle Docs rather than just having a link to the blog. Any reason not to copy and paste the content in and then format it for Moodle Docs? Peace - Anthony

Hi Anthony

This kind of instructions are not something one can _keep_, they have to be maintained. In that process the "community management" was the biggest obstacle I had. I don't want to discuss that in the public nor waste more of my time. I believe you have access to the "Facilitators corner". (I don't any more.)

If you or anybody else wish, you can take over the document with its old content. But please either remove all the references to my name (including the history if possible) or put a clear note at the top with the name of the new maintainer.

BTW, you may have noticed that I have further edited my version of it: http://www.syndrega.ch/?p=38. Visvanath Ratnaweera 00:13, 26 March 2013 (WST)