[Moodle] LAMS installation troubles

Sun Dec 7 17:43:29 EST 2008

I think ELGG is more like the "facebook" (social networking) for Moodle
and Mahara is ePortfolio, so each has a different goal.

Steve

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[mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Laurie Savage
Sent: Sunday, 7 December 2008 5:17 PM
To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Moodle] LAMS installation troubles

Thanks Phil,

I've just started looking around their site and will put in on my laptop
- they reckon three minutes top! How does it compare with Drupal, do you
  have any experience there, I know Roland does.

Laurie

Just recently, on Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:58:02PM +1100  in fact, Phil
Brown mentioned:
> Elgg <http://elgg.org/> is a bit like Mahara. It's a bit easier to
install
> too - uses Mysql.
> 
> Phil
> 
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Laurie Savage <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au>
wrote:
> 
> > I haven't heard of Elgg.
> >
> > Laurie
> >
> > Just recently, on Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 06:09:45PM +1100  in fact,
Roland
> > Gesthuizen mentioned:
> > > 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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> > > >
> > > > "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
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can
> > change
> > > the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
Mead
> >
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