Visvanath Ratnaweera

Hi Roger

You wrote:
> As second discussion is whether the title and icon should be the tool? Why does the tool matter? Surely the task is what matters (eg have a debate about x,y,z) rather than "here's a forum tool".

Appears everywhere. I think the tracker issue is MDL-74272.

> we are debating the course format layout, particularly the fact that the description appears after and below the activity icon/link. 

AFAICS they can appear side-by-side. I mean the icon is a left aligned image, no text saying what tool that is, rather the title the teacher gives to that activity appearing there. Saves vertical space, more compact, better overview. The current (Moodle 4) huge icons did the reverse!

I can read: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=440740#p1773466.

Nothing wrong with the /opt directory, if you are installing Moodle manually. My question was to find out whether you've "installed" some unknown packaging to us or use technologies I don't know.

In Ubuntu Server you will find the default DocumentRoot by looking at /etc/apache2/sites-available/default.conf. You can change it and many other things, if you know what you are doing. If you ask us, the communication will go smooth if you are doing it according to the book.

/opt/moodle? Is this a third-party package, like Bitnami? The official ones https://download.moodle.org/ are either a zip or a Git repository, which you copy manually to you DocumentRoot: https://docs.moodle.org/400/en/Installing_Moodle. In Ubuntu it is either /var/www or /var/www/html.

You say Ubuntu. Is it native Ubuntu Server or, have you added another layer like Docker?

I ask, because in the normal case, when the web server say it can not write the config.php file, and you create one in the text editor, you need to reload the installation page and it will move forward.

P.S. Isn't this for the Installing and upgrade help forum?