moodle-1.7-6 (Course Management System)

Tested on openSUSE10.2

Moodle is a course management system (CMS). This package is already integrated with the openSUSE installation source

Configuration

Install "moodle" package from the installation source by YaST. The file would be at (.../repo/oss/suse/noarch/moodle-1.7-6.noarch.rpm). By YaST, PHP extension packages are also installed automatically.

If the system does not have a root password for your MySQL, set the password as,

# mysqladmin -u root password 'rootpassword'

Create a moodle database at MySQL.

# mysqladmin -u root -p create moodle
Enter password: rootpassword

Create an access permissions to moodleuser at MySQL.

# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: rootpassword
...
mysql> GRANT ALL ON moodle.* TO moodleuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'moodlepassword';
mysql> quit

Edit /etc/moodle-config.php. You need to change the wwwroot to set your FQDN, and remove the last slash at the dirroot.

...
$CFG->dbtype    = 'mysql';       // mysql or postgres7 (for now)
$CFG->dbhost    = 'localhost';      // eg localhost or db.isp.com
$CFG->dbname    = 'moodle';      // database name, eg moodle
$CFG->dbuser    = 'moodleuser';  // your database username
$CFG->dbpass    = 'moodlepassword';      // your database password
...
// $CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://localhost/moodle/';
$CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://foobar/moodle';
...
// $CFG->dirroot   = '/srv/www/htdocs/moodle/';
$CFG->dirroot   = '/srv/www/htdocs/moodle';
...

Edit /etc/apache2/conf.d/moodle_include.conf. Those lines occur twice for php4, and php5.

...
#       php_value upload_max_filesize 10M
#       php_value post_max_size 10M
#       php_value memory_limit "16M"
       php_value upload_max_filesize 20M
       php_value post_max_size 20M
       php_value memory_limit "32M"
...
#       php_admin_value open_basedir "/srv/www/moodledata:/srv/www/htdocs/moodle/:/tmp"
       php_admin_value open_basedir "/srv/www/moodledata:/srv/www/htdocs/moodle/:/tmp:/etc/moodle-config.php"
...

Increase the memory limit of PHP. Edit /etc/php5/cli/php.ini

...
; memory_limit = 16M      ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (16MB)
memory_limit = 128M      ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (16MB)
...

Open http://localhost/moodle/. You can see the copyright notice. Click "Yes"