Installation on Solaris 10 with Oracle 10
The VDAB (Public employment and vocational training service of the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) is currently preparing an implementation of Moodle 1.9 on a large scale for its clients.
As a first step we have installed Moodle on a standard environment for VDAB being a Solaris 10 with Oracle 10g. Since this operation went succefully, problems encountered were solved, the VDAB offers the installation documentation to the Moodle community.
Contact person: Gerd Goetschalckx
Purpose of this document
This document provides an in-depth installation manual for Moodle on Solaris 10 with Oracle 10.2.0.2.
We provide an overview of the different steps involved:
- Preparing Oracle 10g for a large Moodle installation
- Configuring Apache 2.2 for a secure and high-performance webserver
- Preparing all necessary PHP packages for Apache and Oracle
- Preparing PHP settings for Moodle
- An overview of the steps in the Moodle installation wizard.
3 Setting up the Oracle Database We set up 2 parallel Moodle installations on one and a database on a separate server. Both installations share the same Oracle database, but use a different tablespace.
The Oracle 10.2.0.2 database runs on a Solaris 10 and is set up using Oracle's DBCA tool.
l This is testzone1 on the test server testitis00
l Database name = testitis02.vdab.be
l We used the General purpose template for the database set-up;
l And set UTF8 character encoding to NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8
For each Moodle installation we create a separate Tablespace:
l First Moodle installation on testzone2:
MOODLE_DATA with initial size of 300MB
User: MOODLEUSER, password: moodle
The user only has rights within the specified tablespace
l Second Moodle installation on testzone3:
MOODLE_DATA2 with initial size of 300MB
User: MOODLEUSER2, password: moodle
The user only has rights within the specified tablespace