BrnDmp

Client Day!

1. Finished custom login work

• Everything seems to work but client doesn’t want so many confirmation steps when renewing forgotten password
• safety and user friendliness just don’t go hand in hand
• client is now almost satisfied.
• when doing roll out:
  • copy changed files
  • upload new training
  • remove old trainings and links and course sections
  • remove required for additional fields
  • change title of additional fields (see test)

2. Finished dedicated server setup

• made log dir in moodle dir to save cronjob logs
• added cronjobs

3. Cleaned up client data (ended contract)

• removed database
• tarred folders (moodle & moodledata)
• removed cronjobs

4. Finished HTTPS setup

• only login via https was ok
• opened port 443 to outside (mail to sysadmin, waiting for reply)
• client wants to move to 1.9 as soon as stable release is released
• very slow when adding user to group -> is a database problem, when adding user, mysqld is going crazy, try to optimize mysql settings
• checked certificate at verisign: 1 year certificate is $399 per cert which would be something like 275 euro, but at Xolphin I found that that is actually 449 Euro
• prices at Dutch provider (Xolphin). I think the PositiveSSL file is ok for our purpose
• TODO: check certificates and buy?
• interesting read about Moodle roles etc

5. Cleaned up crontab for shared server

• changed all cron schedules to */5 instead of 5,10,15,20…

6. Finished Moodle thinning for client

• Client was not interested in Moodle functionality so we thinned Moodle till only a website
• Built redirect page to check referrer domain and redirect according to domain
• in theme/customtheme/header.html added to if($home): <?php header(“Location: http://moodle01.stoas.nl/yacht/mod/resource/view.php?id=163″); ?>
• mailed to client for confirmation