Teaching with Moodle

Hi Martin,

It looks to me that because you are looking for unique welcome screens, backgrounds, and themes that you would have to go to a duplicate installation.

You can do all that on the same server and ip address though.

I think you can start by just duplicating and copying the contents of your current moodle directory to a directory of a different name, sailing for example. Then in your config.php you would need to enter the new directory name to replace the old one in $CFG->wwwroot   = and  $CFG->dirroot  and $CFG->dataroot

then change the 'mdl_ in $CFG->prefix    = 'mdl_'  to something like $CFG->prefix    = 'sal_' or something. This will give you separate db tables for that moodle setup. I think that would be it. Anybody else, have I missed anything?

I am running two copies of moodle on my server and have set it up as follows:

It set up a named based virtual host.

At the end of  the httpd.conf file I added:

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.70>
DocumentRoot "/home/www"
ServerName thekingsschool.net
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.70>
DocumentRoot "/home"
ServerName students.thekingsschool.net
</VirtualHost>

Moodle is present in both the /home   and the /home/www directories.

In the moodle config.php file I pointed Moodle to the proper directories

I than created 2 databases, moodle and moodle2

And in the /home/www/moodle I have pointed  to a database called moodle.

In the /home/moodle I pointed the database to moodle2 in

In the Authentication I used pop3 which has the students ID and password for Email so that all ID's and logings are the same. Email, Moodle and Moodle2.