Visvanath Ratnaweera

Halli Pia

Vorerst, ich behaupte nicht fuer 1300 Moodle-Instanzen, Moodle 4.5 und 5.1, eine patentierte Loesung zu kennen. Ich versuche was ich von deinem Moodle-Farm verstanden habe zu in anderen Worten widerzugeben, vielleicht kommt dann jemand auf eine Idee.

 

- Alle Moodles teilen eine Domain, sagen wir example.com, unterscheiden sich nur durch den Pfad am Schluss, also https://example.com/schule1, https://example.com/schule2, .. (immer dieselbe example.com).

 

- Der Webserver braucht demnach nur eine VirtualHost-Datei, /etc/apache/sites-configured/example.com.conf (sagen wir). Diese hat:

--  DocumentRoot /srv/www/moodle Also es gibt nur ein Moodle-Codeverzeichnis fuer alle 1300 Moodles. (Anders wuerde 1,3 TB Speicher bedeuten!)

 

-- Die Konfig-Datei dort, /src/www/moodle/config.php hat anstatt "$CFG->wwwroot   = 'https://example.com';" ein Konstrukt wie:

if (irgendwas == irgendwasSCHULE1) {

$CFG->wwwroot   = 'https://example.com/schule1;

$CFG->dbname    = 'DBSCHULE1';
$CFG->dbuser    = 'DBUSERSCHULE1';
$CFG->dbpass    = 'DBPASSSCHULE1';

}

und das 1300 Mal!

 

-- und es gibt 1300 Dateilinks /srv/www/schule1, /srv/www/schule2,.. die alle zu /srv/www/moodle zeigen.

 

Fortgesetzt..

To Eric and all

 

Eric wrote:
>3. Moodle is now much bigger and more entrenched so people have their own teams and "go-to" people that can answer the questions that are being asked. It is my understanding that Moodle is continuing to expand in being used around the world so it is not as though there are less users. It is just that they have help from other avenues.

 

I think, I hope, that answers a concern I had for years now, long before AI: Why the traffic in Deutsches Moodle is minimal. I know, there are a handful of diehard, some legendary helpers there. But if the help requests and other interactions dry out, nothing much they can do.

 

I entered the Moodle community through the German forum. The English forums were the source for more technical questions. It has completely changed. Now you mention, I have seen more than one thriving German speaking communities. 

 

> That is a little sad as they may never get to experience the incredible community that exists here in these forums.

 

I think the same. But this development must have a history. I believe our community managers are aware and have studied/investigated Why.

I have second thoughts on:
> Why not, if that works for them? Some people prefer machines over humans,

Just hours ago I responded with a help call with a series of questions to understand his situation. In the reply the OP just wanted to continue disregarding all those questions. I wonder whether this shift to communicating with machines will also change the culture of a dialog - like disregard of the other party's feelings.

The world should look at the kind of support from a FOSS foundry and compare it to the big, closed source players - even the closed source software is vanishing, becoming services.

To the final lap: It occurred to me that a hack to strip the domain from the future username should not be very difficult. I almost delved in to it, if not the time ran out. My SP is online for good two weeks now! And it is going well, I don't want to disturb it. If for some reason the users have to fall back to manual, I can just delete the domain part from the username for the new users running a SQL.

Still, glad to know that there is this provision of "auth-proc-filter-hooks" in case we need a solid long-term solution. We can have a down-time once the current activity dies down.

Thanks a lot for the continuous support. You, Catalyst and SAML2 have done a service to our IdP too.

> I understand that you do not like the git way of updating.

I don't know, whom you are talking to. If you are talking to me, please quote me saying that.

 

I would say, I understand that you do not like answering my questions https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=473355#p1896443.

I'm out. Take Git_for_Administrators for your journey.