Moodle documentation: Safe Mode Off Requirement

Moodle documentation: Safe Mode Off Requirement

by Manish Verma -
Number of replies: 4

The Moodle installation documentation says that the following are required for Moodle:

Going by these requirements, a person new to Moodle can choose a hosting company and may later find that if PHP safe mode is on, there are so many things he/she cannot do and the installation of Moodle may be useless for him/her.

I would suggest that the requirement of PHP safe mode off needs to be explicitly stated in the installation documentation.

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Re: Moodle documentation: Safe Mode Off Requirement

by Rahim Virani -
Interestingly enough we have been in production for quite some time and I have left safe_mode = on, granted I have root access.

Please let me know if anyone has actually had issues with it, I personally have not, (Moodle 1.6.1)

Regards,
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Re: Moodle documentation: Safe Mode Off Requirement

by Timothy Takemoto -

Dear Rahim
If you would be so kind as to have a look at a few of the safe_mode problems and suggest solutions for them then perhaps we can put together a cure-for-safe-mode. I think however, that if one has safe_mode then one usually does need to have root access, and if one has root access then it is probably simpler to turn safe-mode off.
Timothy

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