In a larger High School with an established Intranet based on Novell, we have directories that contain heaps of “resources” for use in course work. Transferring these onto the Moodle server into the /mod/resource folder is duplicating network resources as well as data redundancy – not good networking practice. We are looking at housing the resource folder (/resource) elsewhere on the network. It seems as usage increases this folder will become large as will the number of concurrent users of moodle accessing the server.
We thought it would be a good option to include in the config.php file a path to the ‘remote’ resource folder (eg. $CFG->resourceroot), but with the current location as a default. It needs to be built into moodle code so that logs etc work.
Does anyone know of any issues or impact on moodle involved with doing this?
Has anyone done this or have an ideas? If so which file would $CFG->resourceroot need to be edited into?