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 So "mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'" thing is obsolete.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)