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Revision as of 13:09, 17 November 2008
The purpose of this page is to list useful links by general topics for administrators.
Table of Contents
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
Unix/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)
- Step-by-step Install Guide for Solaris 10 with Oracle 10
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
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
Web Hosts
Database
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.
- Reducing spam in Moodle
- 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
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
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
