== Installation & Upgrading == *[[Installation Quickstart]] for an overview of the installation steps

== Using FreeTDS on Unix == If you web server is on Linux or some other flavour of Unix, try FreeTDS, http://www.freetds.org (documentation at http://www.freetds.o

...he term generally used (in Unix circles) to refer to a user-defined script or program that is automatically run at regular intervals. ...odle installation directory. For example, if you have Moodle installed on Linux at:

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...ovides for a fallback through the use of Mimetex. Versions of MimeTex for Linux (glib2.3), Windows, Mac OS X and FreeBSD are included in the Moodle distrib You should only user MimeTeX if installing the full LaTeX system fails or the binaries are not available on your system. The results are not nearly a

You can confirm where all these things are located in a Moodle installation by checking the '''[[Configuration file|config.php]]''' file. ...http://download.moodle.org so you only have to backup the parts you added or changed yourself.

*This page contains important security measures for your Moodle installation. *You should not post actual exploits in the forums or elsewhere on the web (to protect Moodle admins who have not upgraded yet).

...s. It could no doubt be used as a basis for compiling PHP on other Unix or Linux systems. You can either install Apache from the Ubuntu packages (recommended) or compile it from source. Compiling from source is simple but you end up (usi

...lised to MSSQL 2005 (v.9), although it '''might work with MSSQL 2000 (v.8) or newer'''. All the development process has been performed using MSSQL 2005 a While PHP comes with one, more or less, standard extension (mssql) that provides access to MSSQL databases, e

#You are familar with or have read the LDAP authentication documentation. ...our settings to satisfy this last assumption, then you will need to remove or comment out the line that reads:

== System information needed for Installation problems forum == When posting questions to the [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=28 Installation problems forum], try to provide as much background information as possible

...h the Apache HTTP Server. A web server is a required component of a Moodle installation. There are two distinct developments of the Apache HTTP Server, version 1 a ...maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient

Moodle can be made to perform very well, at small usage levels or scaling up to many thousands of users. The factors involved in performance ...ne benchmark of the component of the system you are trying to improve. For Linux try [http://lbs.sourceforge.net/ LBS] and for Windows use the Performance M

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