Archive for October 1st, 2007

PHP IIS W2K3 Moodle

Monday, October 1st, 2007

interesting post on the moodle forum about php performance under IIS W2K3. I turned of 'application pool recycling' and cpu problem seems to be fixed. I tried to set other parameters as well to boost performance. Anyway, the minimum times for a lot of sections improved a lot! In the ...

PHP 5.2.x IIS6

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Nice post about php performance on W2K3 and IIS6; summary is that, if using, php 5.2.x, you should always use cgi or fastcgi. If using 4.4.x, always use ISAPI. Also reports about slow php performance with (multiple) includes from 5.1.x to 5.2.x .

iSCSI config

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Continued iSCSI config on MoodleApp01. {en:Iscsi} . In /var/log/messages I found this entry: iscsid: an InitiatorAlias= is required, but was not found in /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi edited /etc/iscsi/initiator.iscsi , Alias to InitiatorAlias according to error message in /var/log/messages Checking info of open-iscsi docs. Cool command: tail -f [file] , follows file as it grows Seems ...

Moodle Migration

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Prepare moodle migration from 1.6 to 1.8. Checked the migration docs on the moodle site. Issues to check: utf-8 Roles and capabilities Multi-authentication Themes Things to check: MySQL username and password (check config.php) system root account Things to do: Backup: software, data, database Download & Install new moodle Copy config.php, custom themes (.htaccess) Install plugins (questionnaire) Visit admin page