[Moodle] LAMS installation troubles

[Roland Gesthuizen]

I might give Elgg the last look after calling Paul .. LAMS and Mahara seem
to be the way to go.
    http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=103021

2008/12/6 Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>

> Daniel and I are going to have a go at supercharging our Moodle server by
> integrating all these packages at once (Elgg, LAMS, Mahara etc). Am lucky to
> have some tech help around on Monday and Tuesday from NetworkHelp so it is a
> good opportunity for us to not miss the upgrade and have a specialist on
> hand.
>
> Of course we will do this using a virtual machine copy so we can roll back
> the changes if it falls over or fails. I'll get Daniel to post some feedback
> about how it goes.
>
> Regards Roland
>
> 2008/12/5 laurie Savage <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au>
>
> I guess this is Moodlish!
>>
>> I'm playing with integrating LAMS and Moodle but am having a lot of
>> problems with the LAMS installation. I can't work out where it puts all
>> its config files on my Ubuntu system.
>>
>> I followed Donna's suggestions on tweaking MySQL with huge performance
>> boosts (thanks Donna) but that meant I use IPs rather than "localhost" for
>> mysql users. I can't for the life of me find this line in in a
>> non-existant lams.properties on my system so I can change "localhost" to
>> 127.0.0.1.
>>          SQL_URL=jdbc:mysql://localhost/${DB_NAME}?characterEncoding=utf8
>>
>> Neither can I find the MySQL password for the lams db user (you don't get
>> prompted for one on installation). Despite the online info there is no
>> /etc/lams2 or /usr/share/lams2/config and nothing in the /usr/local or
>> /usr/share/doc directories. (I really don't enjoy Java apps)
>>
>> I could untweak MySQL and comment out "skip-name-resolve" and reinstate my
>> "localhost" users but I just don't want  to!
>>
>> --
>> Laurie Savage
>> =
>> Student Assessment/Reporting & Tracking
>> Pascoe Vale Girls College
>> Pascoe Vale, Victoria, AU  9306 2544
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> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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