Mac OS X Installation Manual
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The detailed notes on installing Moodle server into a Mac OS X client version have been changed recently. Particularly, Turck MMCache (a PHP accelerator) is now compatible with Moodle, and new easy to install packages of PHP 4.3.9, MySQL 4.0.21 and Apache 2.0.52 that utilize this accelerator have been released. Check Aaron Faby's site... http://serverlogistics.com for these new versions. Also here is a copy of the detailed instructions located in the Moodle Documentation Wiki area. I would appreciate any corrections or additions posted here.
Re: Mac OS X Installation Manual
Thanks for the notes. Hopefully in December we'll have the time to set up Moodle on the school server and let you know of any problems.
Cheers
paul
Cheers
paul
Re: Mac OS X Installation Manual
Don,
Not sure if you noticed but I had posted a reply to your howto document in the howto section with my own notes on installing moodle on mac os x client.
Not sure if you noticed but I had posted a reply to your howto document in the howto section with my own notes on installing moodle on mac os x client.
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Yes, Daryl, I noticed several new and helpful comments (two about command line installation and one about operation with 3000 logged users). These are in the document above. Which one did you write? It is helpful to know who wrote things so I can ask followup questions. This wiki does not leave an editing trail.
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Don,
I'm searching but I simply cannot find it. I found your document in its original form (maybe second update?) in the howto section which I cannot even seem to find anymore. I modified the .doc directly and postedmy modified version in a reply to the original post. Here is the modified doc again
Daryl
I'm searching but I simply cannot find it. I found your document in its original form (maybe second update?) in the howto section which I cannot even seem to find anymore. I modified the .doc directly and postedmy modified version in a reply to the original post. Here is the modified doc again
Daryl
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Don,
I added the two about command line installation. (I thought there would be an editing trail, but I did put my email into the MySQL stuff if anyone had questions).
I'm glad someone thought they were helpful
Best regards,
Mark
I added the two about command line installation. (I thought there would be an editing trail, but I did put my email into the MySQL stuff if anyone had questions).
I'm glad someone thought they were helpful
Best regards,
Mark
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Don,
I appreciate the how-to document... I found it very helpful.
However, I feel it is important to emphasize one particular part of Daryl Hawes comments: do not enable the root user. Changing permissions of the folder per his suggestions provides a much more secure webserver and serves the same purpose. I hope that you will incorporate this into your main document.
Neil
I appreciate the how-to document... I found it very helpful.
However, I feel it is important to emphasize one particular part of Daryl Hawes comments: do not enable the root user. Changing permissions of the folder per his suggestions provides a much more secure webserver and serves the same purpose. I hope that you will incorporate this into your main document.
Neil
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Thanks, Neil. Any other pointers you learned as you installed on OS X? And out of curiousity, why did you choose Mac OS X and not Linux, etc.?
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To answer your second question first, our school district is predominantly OSX, and I happened to have a G4 next to my desk.
And yes, I did come across one more item of interest during the install, which I'm sure is mentioned elsewhere on the site:
if you set up the cron job via the command line using Martin's example on the installation page
Neil
And yes, I did come across one more item of interest during the install, which I'm sure is mentioned elsewhere on the site:
if you set up the cron job via the command line using Martin's example on the installation page
wget -q -O /dev/null http://example.com/moodle/admin/cron.phpit will fail on a default install of OSX (at least on 10.3) because the wget command is not part of the package. It can be installed manually, but I used the curl command instead.
Neil
Re: Mac OS X Installation Manual
Don,
I appreciate the how-to document... I found it very helpful.
However, I feel it is important to emphasize one particular part of Daryl Hawes comments: do not enable the root user. Changing permissions of the folder per his suggestions provides a much more secure webserver and serves the same purpose. I hope that you will incorporate this into your main document.
Neil
I appreciate the how-to document... I found it very helpful.
However, I feel it is important to emphasize one particular part of Daryl Hawes comments: do not enable the root user. Changing permissions of the folder per his suggestions provides a much more secure webserver and serves the same purpose. I hope that you will incorporate this into your main document.
Neil