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*[[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. | *[[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. | ||
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== FAQs == | == FAQs == | ||
Revision as of 20:28, 30 November 2009
The purpose of this page is to list useful links by general topics for administrators of a Moodle site.
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
- Installing contributed modules or plugins
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 for ideas on improving the speed of your installation
- Manage 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.
- nagios Open source software to monitor servers
FAQs
- Installation FAQ
- Beginning Administration FAQ
- Administration FAQ
- Performance FAQ
- Backup and restore FAQ
- Errors 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
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
- User_profile_fields
- Enrolment plugins
- Flat file - enrol existing users in a course
- Assigning user a role - typical assignments include:
- Enrol students in a course
- Unenrolment Student
- 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
- Integrate Moodle, LDAP and SIMS.net
- How to rebuild context paths
- Hacking the Moodle 2.0 database transfer script to convert a Moodle 1.9 site
