[Moodle] LAMS installation troubles

[Laurie Savage]

Thanks, this is really frustrating.

Laurie

Just recently, on Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 01:05:21PM +1100  in fact, Roland Gesthuizen mentioned:
> Daniel and I are going to have a go at supercharging our Moodle server by
> integrating all these packages at once (Elgg, LAMS, Mahara etc). Am lucky to
> have some tech help around on Monday and Tuesday from NetworkHelp so it is a
> good opportunity for us to not miss the upgrade and have a specialist on
> hand.
> 
> Of course we will do this using a virtual machine copy so we can roll back
> the changes if it falls over or fails. I'll get Daniel to post some feedback
> about how it goes.
> 
> Regards Roland
> 
> 2008/12/5 laurie Savage <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au>
> 
> > I guess this is Moodlish!
> >
> > I'm playing with integrating LAMS and Moodle but am having a lot of
> > problems with the LAMS installation. I can't work out where it puts all
> > its config files on my Ubuntu system.
> >
> > I followed Donna's suggestions on tweaking MySQL with huge performance
> > boosts (thanks Donna) but that meant I use IPs rather than "localhost" for
> > mysql users. I can't for the life of me find this line in in a
> > non-existant lams.properties on my system so I can change "localhost" to
> > 127.0.0.1.
> >          SQL_URL=jdbc:mysql://localhost/${DB_NAME}?characterEncoding=utf8
> >
> > Neither can I find the MySQL password for the lams db user (you don't get
> > prompted for one on installation). Despite the online info there is no
> > /etc/lams2 or /usr/share/lams2/config and nothing in the /usr/local or
> > /usr/share/doc directories. (I really don't enjoy Java apps)
> >
> > I could untweak MySQL and comment out "skip-name-resolve" and reinstate my
> > "localhost" users but I just don't want  to!
> >
> > --
> > Laurie Savage
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
> 
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Laurie Savage
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It was all so different before everything changed.