[Moodle] LAMS installation troubles

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Just read that some Elgg developers jumped across to Mahara .. I suspect
they were looking to work on the ePortfolio side of things rather than turn
Elgg away from it's social networking goals. I'll give it a lookin but
Mahara is looking good.

Regards Roland

2008/12/7 Phil Brown <pdbrown at gmail.com>

> 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 citizens can
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>> > > Mead
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>> >
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>> change
>> > the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
>>
>> --
>> Laurie Savage
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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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