Talk:Installing Moodle

Additional requirements

Should the installation page mention some of the more detailed PHP requirements also, like GD library and the FreeType 2 library on Linux/Unix boxes to be able to look at the dynamic graphs that the logs pages make? Samuli Karevaara 13 January 2006 11:10 (WST)

Yes, good idea - please contribute :-) Helen Foster 13 January 2006 11:35 (WST)

Please add to the "Requirements" section of the Installation Instructions something such as:

During Installation of Moodle the PHP Memory Limit should be set to 16M. Many commercial hosting providers have this set to 8M only. To find out your PHP Memory Limit use PHP Info. You may have to ask your service provider to increase the PHP Memory Limit before you can complete the installation.

Thanks for your help.

maybe this could be a good place to mention something for BUG 4937 "some SCORM objects contain HTC files which are not automatically supported by APACHE, if you are using APACHE and make use of large numbers of SCORM objects then you may want to add the following MIME Type.... etc.... see here for details: http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=4937&pos=24 --Dan Marsden 13:57, 8 June 2006 (WST)

Some things I came across

First-time user of Moodle, so I'm commenting here rather than editing, just to be on the safe side :-) -- two things have caught my attention:

• "# mysqladmin -u root -p reload" -- this step is unnecessary. The reload command is only for when you fiddle directly with the mysql permission tables, but not needed when you do a GRANT.
• "Remember by default, mysql won't accept moodle data directories created under ROOT" -- not sure what is meant by this sentence? The data directory in question is for storing files, not db data, right?

--Carsten Pedersen 18:14, 27 January 2007 (CST)