Static Pages
We have seen Moodle installations where there was a need for displaying static information like an imprint, a faq or a contact page and this information couldn't be added everything to the frontpage. As Moodle doesn't have a "page" concept, admins started to create courses, place their information within these courses, open guest access to the course and link to this course from HTML blocks or the custom menu.
We thought that this course overhead doesn't make sense, so we created this plugin. It is designed to deliver static HTML documents, enriched with Moodle layout and navigation as a standard Moodle page which exist outside any course. Static pages will be available on catchy URLs like http://www.yourmoodle.com/static/faq.html and can be linked from Moodle HTML blocks, from your Moodle theme footer and so on.
Using this plugin, you can create information pages within moodle, but without misusing a whole course just for showing a textbox. It is not meant as a fully featured content management solution, especially as you have to work with raw HTML, but it is quite handy for experienced admins for creating some few static pages within Moodle.
Please see README file for details about the usage and features of this plugin.
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After reading README, I'm really confused; I don't know what to do. Can I get it right? Install the plugin like any other plugin to folder
/local/staticpage, then create html file called faq.html for example and upload it to /local/staticpage. Why in README it says: "The document directory /var/www/files/moodledata/staticpage contains the files foo.bar and faq.html". I'm really confused. Is anyone kind enough to instruct me step by step? I know I'm wrong (wrong configuration) because it says; "The document directory doesn't exist, therefore there are no static pages to be delivered." but I don't know which step I'm wrong?
Many thanks in advance,
there was a multitude of questions like yours in the past about our plugin.
With the release of the plugin for Moodle 3.0, we changed the way the plugin works - away from a filesystem based storage in Moodledata to a filearea which can be filled in the Moodle GUI. This change should solve most of the obstacles users were facing.
Now your question is targeted at the older versions of the plugin which we cannot support anymore. Please check out the version for Moodle 3.0. If you don't have Moodle 3.0 yet, you can remove the line starting with $plugin->requires from version.php and install it in legacy versions at your own risk.
Thanks,
Alex
Thanks for your reply. I'm using moodle 2.9.4+, not quite old version. I don't upgrade to moodle 3 because my favorite plugins aren't supported in moodle 3. So how can I install your plugin in moodle 2.9? Just remove the line starting with $plugin->requires from version.php?
With kind regards,
> So how can I install your plugin in moodle 2.9? Just remove the line starting with $plugin->requires from version.php?
Yes, I already said that above
But note that you do this at your own risk. I think the Moodle 3.0 version will run well on Moodle 2.9, but I won't guarantee anything.
Thanks,
Alex
I am hopeful that I will be able to get the link like this www.mydomain/static/aboutus.html. BUT I got page error. Did I missed out something? What will be my url?
a URL like www.mydomain/static/aboutus.html will only work if you have configured Rewrite rules in your webserver, see https://github.com/moodleuulm/moodle-local_staticpage/blob/master/README.md Section "Using mod_rewrite" for details.
If you didn't, your page will bei available on http://www.yourmoodle.com/local/staticpage/view.php?page=[pagename].
Alex
I'm using moodle 2.9.4+ and installed your plugin (Release v3.0-r2). Just remove $plugin->requires from version.php as you said above and it works like a charm. However, I suggest you should add one more screenshot so that everyone can understand how to upload documents.
With kind regards,
One single question? Is it posible to change /static/ for other name? I'm spanish and I'd like to put another word.
Thanks in advance.
Regards.
glad I could help and thanks for your feedback for 2.9.x!
Regarding the screenshot, I thought that the Readme was really comprehensive already so that there is no need for a screenshot. What exactly are you missing?
Abel,
you only get the /static/ URLs when you use the (optional) Apache rewrite rules. Basically, in these rules, you can change "static" to whatever you like and the static page should work. You only have to make sure that you did not enable the "apacherewrite" setting of the plugin and you might experience false behaviours of the breadcrumb on the static pages.
If you also want to fix that, you will have to change all occurences of "/static" to "/whateveryoulike" in view.php.
Thanks,
Alex
I miss nothing. I'm only afraid that someone would like to install your plugin, they can't imagine how it works, especially uploading documents.
thanks for your feedback. I appreciate every improvement to documentation, but as I already know the plugin, I need to know where you failed when you tried to bring it into production.
As I said above, there is already an extensive Readme on https://github.com/moodleuulm/moodle-local_staticpage/blob/master/README.md. The content of the Readme is not available directly here in the plugin repo page because it changes from release to release, but it is linked with the "More documentation on this plugin" link.
So, if you tell me where you failed or what you did not understand in the Readme, I can try to improve it.
Thanks,
Alex
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^paginas/(.*)\.html$ /local/staticpage/view.php?page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
And voilà, everything fine (even breadcrumbs).
Thanks for your help and for the plugin, Alexander,
Best regards.