Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Interesting concept {en:UnionFS} : It allows files and directories of separate file systems, known as branches, to be transparently overlaid, forming a single coherent file system. (wikipedia quote).
Some links:
UnionFS
Aufs (Another Union FS; UnionFS, rebuilt from scratch)
Picked it up from the presentation of Dan Poltawski at the Moodle Moot 2007 in ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Did some browsing on php security.
PHP programming security:
Top 7 php security blunders
PHP manual security section
PHP security blog
Linux security (with HOWTOs)
Lots of issues apply to general web programming. The main message is: never trust user input. Always check everything a user is posting in your webapp.
Cool article about breaking firewalls ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
browsing the moodle docs again:
isstudent etc is deprecated, check roles is now done with the function hascapability().
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
today I browsed to Moodle developer docs and source code tree a bit and I am starting to understand more and more about the structure. Although there might not be a neatly documented API, as my colleagues said, there are plenty of low level functions in de lib dir to ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Installed awstats on dedicated client server.
Untarred source
copied wwwroot to install dir
mkdir stats in www-root
Sorry, configure.pl does not support automatic add to cron yet.
You can do it manually by adding the following command to your cron:
/usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -update -config=myvirtualserver
Or if you have several config files and prefer having only one command:
/usr/local/awstats/tools/awstats_updateall.pl now
create ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
continued from previous post.
Scripts seem to work fine. Syncsuperusers is finished, run ldap_group_sync once more -> there is still an error in the script on line 38.
TODO: refactor scripts
Added cronjob for Moodle cron and for sync scripts. Redirected moodle cron script to moodle/log/ dir. Check later if it works.
Adapted icon ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Installed firefox and firebug on maintenance server to analyse webpages.
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
sent mail to client for domain login customization.
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Updated production server for client according to previous upgrade on testserver. Included switch to default theme BEFORE upgrade because of new XHTML and css / theme settings.
Updated client moodle from version 1.6 to 1.8:
Revert to default theme !!
copied app directory to backup: cp -Rvf moodle/* moodle_app.bak20071009/.
backed up database: mysqldump ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
We are trying to get Moodle to perform on a MS environment (W2K3,IIS,SQLServer). Somehow we do not get the performance comparable to a OOTB LAMP setup. FastCGI is not working.
Some solution strategies:
Install known performing php-apps on MS env like Wordpress, phpBB and compare to LAMP
Check info at Zend
Try to find ...
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