Installing and upgrading help

Sorry, you can't install Moodle4OSX on an Intel-Mac. There is still no version of XAMPP for Intel-Macs. The friends from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html write that they need to have a new hardware before they could do the development. For this time Moodle4OSX can't help you any more because Moodle4OSX uses XAMPP for Mac OS X.

Please look here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=37501

There was written that there were the same problems. You can use MAMP from http://mamp.info/en/home for your local Moodle installation on your Apple MacBook. They offer a version specially for Intel-Mac and it's free. I tested it and it works very well. So I hope to have time to write a documentation for this because there are more people who have the same problem.

If you want to get more information about MAMP please look at http://www.mamp.info/en/home/ or http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/mamp.html

Ralf

The only problem I've had while running moodle on my own laptop is if I don't have a static ip address then dhcp will change the address I have to tell my students where to go to access moodle.

To overcome this I've done two things for my own ease of use:

1 created a "custom" page for my wwwroot directory that uses php to redirect any visitors to that address, just copy the text below in a text editor, save it as "index.php" in the wwwroot directory.

-------START--------
<?php
/* Redirect to a different page in the current directory that was requested */
$host  = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$uri  = rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), '/\\');
$extra = 'moodle/';
header("Location: http://$host$uri/$extra");
exit;
?>
-------START--------

The second thing I've done is modified the config.php file that moodle uses to serve up it's pages. I've changed it so that it always uses the correct ip address no matter what network I've plugged in to. Just open up the config.php file in your wwwroot/moodle directory and make the following change.

Find the line in your config.php file that looks something like this:
$CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://example.com/moodle';

replace the line above with the following lines:
$domain = GetHostByName($REMOTE_ADDR);
$CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://'.$domain.'/moodle';

This would mean your modified config.php should look something like this:

<?php  /// Moodle Configuration File

unset($CFG);

$CFG->dbtype    = 'mysql';
$CFG->dbhost    = 'localhost';
$CFG->dbname    = 'moodle';
$CFG->dbuser    = 'username';
$CFG->dbpass    = 'password';
$CFG->prefix    = 'mdl_';

$domain = GetHostByName($REMOTE_ADDR);
$CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://'.$domain.'/moodle';
$CFG->dirroot   = '/home/example/public_html/moodle';
$CFG->dataroot  = '/home/example/moodledata';
$CFG->admin     = 'admin';

$CFG->directorypermissions = 00777;  // try 02777 on a server in Safe Mode

require_once("$CFG->dirroot/lib/setup.php");
// MAKE SURE WHEN YOU EDIT THIS FILE THAT THERE ARE NO SPACES, BLANK LINES,
// RETURNS, OR ANYTHING ELSE AFTER THE TWO CHARACTERS ON THE NEXT LINE.
?>

These two changes allow you to tell your students to type your ip address in their browser and automatically pull up moodle when MAMP is running.

Happy moodling!
-Geof