Howard Miller

Moodle is slowly but surely getting harder to deploy. Which is making it beyond the reach of "amateurs" and those with limited resources. I suppose in some ways this is inevitable.

Yes - see my comment above.

There is NO user data stored in the Moodle code directories. All that stuff is stored in the moodledata folders which should not be publicly accessible. But Moodle won't even install if that folder is accessible.

So.. whatever you did to hide these folders, I really think that you should undo it.

Moodle isn't Wordpress. User data is stored in an entirely separate data structure from the code.

I'm not sure what problem you are trying to fix. I have even less idea what the poster in the linked discussion was trying to fix. Moodle is open source. Why do you care about Moodle code being "exposed to the public"?

I think it's a bad idea doing that kind of thing in Moodle. It simply isn't designed for that kind of confidential material. I don't think this will end well.