<a href="http://elgg.org/">Elgg</a> is a bit like Mahara. It's a bit easier to install too - uses Mysql.<br><br>Phil<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Laurie Savage <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au">sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I haven't heard of Elgg.<br>
<br>
Laurie<br>
<br>
Just recently, on Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 06:09:45PM +1100 in fact, Roland Gesthuizen mentioned:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> I might give Elgg the last look after calling Paul .. LAMS and Mahara seem<br>
> to be the way to go.<br>
> <a href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=103021" target="_blank">http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=103021</a><br>
><br>
> 2008/12/6 Roland Gesthuizen <<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>><br>
><br>
> > Daniel and I are going to have a go at supercharging our Moodle server by<br>
> > integrating all these packages at once (Elgg, LAMS, Mahara etc). Am lucky to<br>
> > have some tech help around on Monday and Tuesday from NetworkHelp so it is a<br>
> > good opportunity for us to not miss the upgrade and have a specialist on<br>
> > hand.<br>
> ><br>
> > Of course we will do this using a virtual machine copy so we can roll back<br>
> > the changes if it falls over or fails. I'll get Daniel to post some feedback<br>
> > about how it goes.<br>
> ><br>
> > Regards Roland<br>
> ><br>
> > 2008/12/5 laurie Savage <<a href="mailto:sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au">sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>><br>
> ><br>
> > I guess this is Moodlish!<br>
> >><br>
> >> I'm playing with integrating LAMS and Moodle but am having a lot of<br>
> >> problems with the LAMS installation. I can't work out where it puts all<br>
> >> its config files on my Ubuntu system.<br>
> >><br>
> >> I followed Donna's suggestions on tweaking MySQL with huge performance<br>
> >> boosts (thanks Donna) but that meant I use IPs rather than "localhost" for<br>
> >> mysql users. I can't for the life of me find this line in in a<br>
> >> non-existant lams.properties on my system so I can change "localhost" to<br>
> >> <a href="http://127.0.0.1" target="_blank">127.0.0.1</a>.<br>
> >> SQL_URL=jdbc:mysql://localhost/${DB_NAME}?characterEncoding=utf8<br>
> >><br>
> >> Neither can I find the MySQL password for the lams db user (you don't get<br>
> >> prompted for one on installation). Despite the online info there is no<br>
> >> /etc/lams2 or /usr/share/lams2/config and nothing in the /usr/local or<br>
> >> /usr/share/doc directories. (I really don't enjoy Java apps)<br>
> >><br>
> >> I could untweak MySQL and comment out "skip-name-resolve" and reinstate my<br>
> >> "localhost" users but I just don't want to!<br>
> >><br>
> >> --<br>
> >> Laurie Savage<br>
> >> =<br>
> >> Student Assessment/Reporting & Tracking<br>
> >> Pascoe Vale Girls College<br>
> >> Pascoe Vale, Victoria, AU 9306 2544<br>
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