Moodle Installation

about Moodle

• Moodle - A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning(MoodleDocs, Release Notes, 中文MoodleDocs, BBS, PHP Cross Reference of Moodle)
• Moodle 討論區:
  1. Moodle加油站的「你問我答-大家來討論」討論區
  2. 林宏隆老師的 Moodle 討論區
  3. 台灣PHP聯盟(Taiwan PHP User Group) - 討論區 - 數位學習平台
• Moodle線上教學
  • 宜蘭縣Moodle數位學習平台研習教學網站
  • 課程: 如何使用 Moodle (教師版)
  • 課程: Moodle平台使用123 (需註冊為會員)
  • Moodle線上教學平台 電子書 - 簡介Moodle (ISBN 9861256598) 及 Moodle 1.5.3 架站錄影教學

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

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 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}

secure the phpMyadmin

• password protected

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
• (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

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 

reference: Remember The Milk - Forums / Tips & Tricks / Automatic backup (Windows script)

modify the translation file

• Translation of Moodle

optional

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 wiki syntax (markup)

• CamelWord
• Free link

  • [Free_link]

  • or

    [Description | Free_link]