[Moodle] LAMS installation troubles

[Phil Brown]

Elgg <http://elgg.org/> is a bit like Mahara. It's a bit easier to install
too - uses Mysql.

Phil

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Laurie Savage <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> 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
> > >> =
> > >> Student Assessment/Reporting & Tracking
> > >> Pascoe Vale Girls College
> > >> 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
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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
>
> --
> Laurie Savage
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