Martin Dougiamas

There is one already, it's called http://moodle.org

Since you don't have access to the files, I would look into using a Resource.

Add the resource somewhere (course or home page) and look in the advanced settings at the parameters you can pass to the external URL.

http://docs.moodle.org/en/File_or_website_link#Parameters

See the bottom of that section for some security suggestions.

1. Are you looking at the "Files" option under the Course admin menu? This shouldn't even be showing for most courses (it's legacy only) and is not yet fully functional. Usually, all new files are added from moodleforms inside the activity etc, and there you will already find full functionality for zipping etc (try adding a Folder from the resource menu to see it).

2. No, because the files are not stored raw on disk any more.... but there will be WebDAV access. However, also notice if your large file is being published on nearly every type of server, then you will be able to PULL it into Moodle from within the filepicker.

Oh, sorry Mike!

In that case it must be something local or temporary. CVS is working fine for us and there were no known problems recently.

And you're definitely using ssh, right?

http://docs.moodle.org/en/CVS_for_Developers

Hi, cvs.moodle.org is just for developers with CVS write access.

Use one of the mirrors for anonymous access:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/CVS_for_Administrators

P.S. it's generally considered bad etiquette to run nmap on servers that you don't own ;)