@Michael, you DON'T need Synology's package to run a Moodle on your device. As long as you have Apache, PHP and MariaDB (which is compatible with MySql). I include, as a matter of course, phpMyAdmin, which gives me access to my MariaDB. Should work even if you put the Moodle on a different Volume, oh btw, the new Moodle database was placed in the same Volume as the original, Volume 1, whereas my Moodle is on Volume 3.
I've installed Moodle 3 and 4 on a Ubuntu machine; however, I can't get anything Moodle related to work on Synology. Please, anybody make a guide on how to do this. Or, just make a video of you doing a run through install. I got the Ubuntu system running in less than 10 minutes, some (smarter than myself) must have the knowledge and skills to make a quick YouTube video and save all the people in forums weeks and months of agony and frustration.
Okay, yes, I can understand the frustration, so assuming you're using the DSM 7+ package, it may be better to putty into the NAS, login as the SuperUser and install the Moodle from there. I would suggest not to use the Synology Moodle package, I haven't for years, but rather download and install the latest but one Moodle package from Downloads. You can download using your normal browser/net connections then just copy it to the Moodle directory on the NAS. Check to see if you already have a Moodle database running, if not, then I seriously recommend the MariaDB rather than any other database, seems to work better in the Synology environs than others. Once you have a db shell created, run the Moodle setup via your SU role. Once installed, your desktop OS should be able to access and use Moodle. (I can make a video via the Dark Side OS, but that would not help you at all, I suspect, sorry.)
Thanks. I was using putty, Apache2, MariaDB, phpadmin, and web station. I tried a lot of guides I found but, still couldn't get it to install. The Docker bitnami kept failing due to an environmental variable (which I can't change in Docker).
I recently installed Moodle on a Windows machine, because my Ubuntu machine is old and slowing down.
I recently installed Moodle on a Windows machine, because my Ubuntu machine is old and slowing down.
You could keep the ubuntu as a headless server, perhaps. I have my test Moodle set up on my Synology NAS and have no issues with it. I access it via a Windows 7 desktop or Win 10 laptop. I have installed Samba on the desktop but can't recall doing it on the laptop, must have... otherwise Windoze would be spitting the dummy trying to talk to nginx