Administrator documentation

The purpose of this page is to list useful links by general topics for administrators.

Installation & Upgrading

• Installation Quickstart for an overview of the installation steps
• Installing Moodle for detailed installation instructions
• Installation FAQ
• Options for installing Apache, MySQL and PHP
• Upgrading Moodle

System-specific Instructions & Packages

Linux-based

• Automated Installation Guide for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 operating system
• Step by Step Installation Guide for RedHat operating system
• Step by Step Installation Guide for Debian GNU/Linux operating system
• Step-by-step Install Guide for Ubuntu
• Step-by-step Install Guide for Ubuntu using apt-get
• Step-by-step Install Guide for Zenwalk-5.0
• Step by Step Installation Guide for the One Laptop per Child XS Server (Beta)

Windows

• Windows installations with instructions for Windows NT/2000/2003 servers
• Windows installation using XAMPP: Apache, MySQL and PHP
• MoodleAnywhere another Windows installation package
• Installing Moodle on Windows Vista- how to

Solaris

• Step-by-step Install Guide for Solaris 10 with Oracle 10

Mac

• Complete Install Packages for Mac OS X 10.3/10.4/10.5
• Step by Step Installation on a Mac OS X 10.4 Client using the internal web server
• Step by Step Installation on a Mac OS X 10.5 Server

Specific Hosts

• Installation on 1and1 web hosting

Others

• Installing Oracle for PHP

Security, Performance and Roles

• Security contains important security procedures for a production site
• Performance and optimization for ideas on improving the speed of your installation
• Managing roles For Moodle 1.7 and later.
• suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installation. It was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core.

FAQs

• Installation FAQ
• Administration FAQ
• Backup FAQ

Configuration Settings

• Site administration block contains configuration setting links
• Notification page used to update versions
• Variables
• Site settings
• Themes
• Language
• Activity modules administration
• Blocks administration
• Filters
• Backup settings
• HTML editor settings
• Calendar settings
• Maintenance mode

• See also:
  • Comparison between configuration settings in Moodle 1.6 & 1.7

User Management

• Authentication
• Add a new user - on a site
• Upload users - from a file to a site, and into existing course and group, some existing user global updates
• Enrolment plugins
  • Flat file - enrol existing users in a course
• Assigning user a role - typical assignments include:
  • Enrol students in a course
  • Assign teachers - to a course
  • Assign course creators - in a site
  • Assign administrators - in a site

Other

• Courses and course formats
• Reports (administrator) and Logs
• Site files
• Database
• Environment
• Moodle Network and Moodle Community hub
• Streaming Media
• Case studies (administrator)
• Anti-virus
• System Monitoring and Server Statistic Software

See also

• Index of all Administrator-related pages
• Integrations
• CVS for Administrators
• Email processing
• Search engine optimization
• Messaging
• Migration
• Metacourses
• Block layout
• Customizing Moodle
• Administrator do's and don'ts
• Using Moodle book Chapter 16: Moodle Administration
• Administration hacks