Moodle Installation

for moodle users or teachers

• Moodle - A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning(MoodleDocs, 中文MoodleDocs,forums, Files included old versions of Moodle, CVS)
• Moodle 討論區:
  1. Moodle加油站的「你問我答-大家來討論」討論區
  2. 台灣PHP聯盟(Taiwan PHP User Group) - 討論區 - 數位學習平台
  3. Moodle for Teachers (M4T) - LinkedIn
  4. General developer forum

• Moodle線上教學
  • 課程: Moodle平台使用123 (需註冊為會員)
  • Moodle 1.5.3 架站錄影教學 Thanks! 歐展嘉老師

for moodle site administrators or developes

• PHP Cross Reference of Moodle([xRef]): Moodle 2.2, Moodle 1.9.9
• Release Notes
• Moodle Technical Documentation (phpdocumentor)
• Moodle tracker(search issues)

Who use Moodle

• 科學園及其他有登記在Moodle官方網站的臺灣網站清單

or my bookmarks tagged with moodle+courses

install web server ex: AppServ or XAMPP

download AppServ 2.4.x from AppServ Open Project

• select custom to check some options of installation
  • (Apache) Server Name: domain name or IP or localhost
  • (MySQL) change the password

download XAMPP from http://www.apachefriends.org/

install Moodle

official document: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_Moodle

AppServ

download appserv AddOns for Moodle from AppServ Open Project

• install appserv-AddOns-Moodle-1.5.exe
  • default: admin, passwd: admin {moodle}/config.php
  • http://localhost/moodle

XAMPP

in php.ini (xampp/php/php.ini or check the location of file by using the phpinfo() function ), unmark the curl extension

 extension=php_curl.dll 

in moodle\lang\en_utf8\countries.php

$string['TW'] = 'Taiwan, Province Of China';
change to $string['TW'] = 'Taiwan';

upgrade Moodle

• Subscribe the latest announcement of Moodle Security Procedures forum
• backup data
  • backup the (MySQL) data file
  • backup the {moodle data} files
  • backup the moodle php files those you modified
• download the latest version of moodle
• (optional) Restart the server to refresh the cache and load the lang pack normally.
• run the {moodle}/install.php
  • note: the path of data should be file:\\aaa\\data at MS Windows
• move the {moodle}/theme/{cstomized theme files}

backup Moodle

• moodle php or webpage files
• moodledata files which uploaded by users
• moodle database

debug Moodle

SQL syntax

SELECT * 
FROM  `mdl_config` 
WHERE  `name` LIKE  '%debug%'

value of

• debug: Debug messages
  • 0 (NONE: Do not show any errors or warnings) ->
  • 6143 (ALL: Show all reasonable PHP debug messages) not 1
  • 38911 (DEVELOPER: extra Moodle debug messages for developers)
• debugdisplay: Display debug messages
  • 0 (No)
  • 1 (Yes)
• debugpageinfo: Show page information
• perfdebug: Performance info

Some moodle sites will not allowed to login the "Site Administration" page after enable to "Display debug messages (debugdisplay)" because the error message block the normal display of moodle page. Highly recommend, left one browser tab on the "Debugging" setting page if you can not access the database. [Moodle 1.8.1]

secure the phpMyadmin

• password protected: change the root password

系統設定 » Variables

• lang: en -> zhtw_utf-8 (Recommend: Download the lang pack from official website by yourself not your moodle.)
• langlist: en, zh_tw_utf8; If you want to view different language version of moodle, you can add lang parameter in the URL address as follows:

English: http://moodle.site/?lang=en
Traditional Chinese: http://moodle.site/?lang=zh_tw_utf8

• (optional) slasharguments: file.php?file=/pic.jpg
• smtphosts: ISP?
• enablerssfeeds: 是

• {moodle}/config.php

$CFG->dirroot   = 'C:\AppServ\www\moodle';
-> $CFG->dirroot = "c:\appserv\www\moodle";

secure the config.php

• in windows, setting the "read-only" permission of the config.php file

cron.php maintenance script

method1 (require the admin permission)

• download from http://moodle.org/download/modules/moodle-cron-for-windows.zip
• add the URL of path/to/cron.php to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MoodleCron\Sites

新增 -> 字串值

more on Moodle docs: Cron

method2 (not require the admin permission)

• download the wget for windows
• create the cron.bat as follows

REM -- run Moodle cron job
FOR /F "tokens=1-8 delims=/:. " %%J IN ("%date% %time%") DO SET timestamp=%%M-%%L-%%K_at_%%N.%%O.%%P 
wget http://path.to/cron.php -q -O Moodle_cron_%timestamp%.txt 

• add to the scheduled tasks (程式集 -> 附屬應用程式 -> 系統工具 -> 排定的工作)
  • (optional) If you do not want to see the pop-up prompt window, you may need to install hstart. And add the following path to your scheduled tasks

path/to/hstart.exe /NOCONSOLE /IDLE path/to/cron.bat 

開放訪客註冊

• Administration / Users / Authentication / Manage authentication
  • Self registration: Email-based self-registration (Moodle 1.9.7)

Message: Enabling the PHP setting display_errors is not recommended on production sites because some error messages may reveal sensitive information about your server.

• find php.ini file

original: display_errors = On
after: display_errors = Off

• restart the apache service

modify the translation file

• Translation of Moodle

optional

setup the default course block for new course

• suggest to add the Messages block
• ref: [1]

move the data to another HD

• C:\AppServ\apache\conf\httpd.conf

move the webpages to another hard disk

DocumentRoot "C:/AppServ/www"
-> DocumentRoot "D:/www"

• restart apache service

• modify {moodle}/config.php

insert the tracking script

• modify the {moodle}/theme/{default_theme_name}/footer.html
• insert the tracking script ex: Google analytics codes

other notes

Moodle Assign roles for 1.7.x

Moodle Assign roles for 1.7.x

Moodle wiki syntax (markup)

• CamelWord
• Free link

  • [Free_link]

  • or

    [Description | Free_link]

forgot the specified theme

SELECT  `value` FROM mdl_config WHERE  `name` =  'theme' /*execute SQL command in Moodle 1.99+ database*/;