[Moodle] LAMS installation troubles

[Laurie Savage]

I haven't heard of Elgg.

Laurie

Just recently, on Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 06:09:45PM +1100  in fact, Roland Gesthuizen mentioned:
> I might give Elgg the last look after calling Paul .. LAMS and Mahara seem
> to be the way to go.
>     http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=103021
> 
> 2008/12/6 Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
> 
> > 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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> >> Pascoe Vale, Victoria, AU  9306 2544
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> >
> > --
> > Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> > http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
> >
> > "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
> > change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
> > Mead
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
> 
> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
> the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead

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Laurie Savage
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