Moodle in English: A simple question but I'm going round and round

A simple question but I'm going round and round

by Mark Pelling - Monday, August 9, 2004, 5:40 PM

Great product - tested on my local intranet now I would like to move it to our web provider, however I'm getting this message.

Warning: mkdir(home/misterp/public_html/moodledata): No such file or directory in /home/misterp/public_html/moodle/lib/moodlelib.php on line 1407

ERROR: You need to create the directory home/misterp/public_html/moodledata with web server write access

Warning: main(mod/resource/lib.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/misterp/public_html/moodle/index.php on line 6

Warning: Unknown(): open(home/misterp/public_html/moodledata/sessions/sess_b9392f12149e8401246b3d2020b44f50, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (home/misterp/public_html/moodledata/sessions) in Unknown on line 0

I know it maybe answered before - but as a teacher supposedly on holiday, trying to get it working before the rush of students come back HELP! I have access to cpanel and a file manager.

Mark

Re: A simple question but I'm going round and round

by Ger Tielemans - Monday, August 9, 2004, 5:49 PM

OK, you are coming back from a holiday, so start with the simple:

Did you create that moodledata dir?? and adept the config.php line:
$CFG->dataroot = '....you server path......\moodledata';
If you are running uder Linux did you set the rights of that dir to 777 or so

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Re: A simple question but I'm going round and round

by Przemyslaw Stencel - Monday, August 9, 2004, 6:55 PM

And I'd like to add one thing to what Ger has already said:

Usually it's not a very good idea to have your moodledata folder in a publicly available location. Unless there are good reasons for you doing that, I'd suggest moving moodledata outside of the public_html directory.

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Re: A simple question but I'm going round and round

by Mark Pelling - Monday, August 9, 2004, 7:29 PM

I've put it both in the www folder (which maps onto the public_html) and the root folder, and also given both 0777 access any other clues?

screen_shot_of_folders.pdf

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Re: A simple question but I'm going round and round

by Przemyslaw Stencel - Monday, August 9, 2004, 7:52 PM

In the screenshot (attached pdf) I can see the moodledata folder outside of the public_html (which is good). However, when I try to access http://www.st-martins-school.net/moodle/, the errors seem to indicate that your config.php file has the following line:

$CFG->dataroot = 'home/misterp/public_html/moodledata';
(inside the public_html folder)

which means that the config setting and the actual location of the moodledata folder are different.

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Re: A simple question but I'm going round and round

by Howard Miller - Monday, August 9, 2004, 8:11 PM

Suggest you post your config.php here. Don't forget to obscure the passwords!

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Re: A simple question but I'm going round and round

by Howard Miller - Monday, August 9, 2004, 10:56 PM

Another thing... you have indexing switched on and/or no home page in your web root. This is very bad security - you can see straight into all your files!

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Re: A simple question but I'm going round and round

by Mark Pelling - Tuesday, August 10, 2004, 3:12 AM

I'm just starting, so what do you mean indexing on? We're going to use a cms such postnuke or mambo for the web pages.

my config page is

//=========================================================================
// 1. DATABASE SETUP
//=========================================================================
$CFG->dbtype    = 'mysql';       // mysql or postgres7 (for now)
$CFG->dbhost    = 'localhost';   // eg localhost or db.isp.com
$CFG->dbname    = 'misterp_moodle';      // database name, eg moodle
$CFG->dbuser    = 'misterp_user' ;    // your database username
$CFG->dbpass    = 'XXXXXX' ;    // your database password
$CFG->prefix    = 'mdl_';        // Prefix to use for all table names

$CFG->dbpersist = false;         // Should database connections be reused?

//=========================================================================
// 2. WEB SITE LOCATION
//=========================================================================
$CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://www.st-martins-school.net/moodle';

//=========================================================================
// 3. SERVER FILES LOCATION
//=========================================================================
$CFG->dirroot = '/home/misterp/public_html/moodle';

//=========================================================================
// 5. DATA FILES PERMISSIONS
//=========================================================================
$CFG->directorypermissions = 0777;

//=========================================================================
// 6. DIRECTORY LOCATION (most people can just ignore this setting)
//=========================================================================
$CFG->admin = 'admin';

Is this ok?

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Re: A simple question but I'm going round and round

by Janne Mikkonen - Tuesday, August 10, 2004, 4:21 AM

//=========================================================================
// 4. DATA FILES LOCATION
//=========================================================================
$CFG->dataroot = 'home/misterp/public_html/moodledata';

Data directory location seem to be wrong! It should be:
$CFG->dataroot = "/home/misterp/public_html/moodledata';
The first slash is missing.

- Janne -

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Re: A simple question but I'm going round and round

by Dale Jones - Tuesday, August 10, 2004, 6:27 AM

As an aside, if you're still deciding on your cms I should consider postnuke over mambo as login authentication can be passed from postnuke to moodle, meaning that only one login is required. Another benefit of this is that you can administer your users from postnuke alone rather than having to do it again in moodle. The pnMoodle module from here is very useful indeed and we've used it at Mary Webb School for ages.

I don't know of an equivalent for mambo, but then I don't know a great deal about mambo.

Oh yeah, and looking at your config file it seems that the moodledata folder is still inside public_html. Bad Idea. Move it to /home/misterp/moodledata (create the folder manually if you need to), set the permissions correctly and make the correct entry in config.php.

HTH in some way.
Dale Jones

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Re: A simple question but I'm going round and round

by Mark Pelling - Tuesday, August 10, 2004, 4:33 AM

I've fixed it - some of the files hadn't been uploaded !!

Thanks for all the help

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