Moodle database performance
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Client had difficulties with Moodle db performance. Adapted some things in my.cnf. Later check the moodle docs on mysql performance. Maintenance things to do are optimize tables each week.
Archive for December, 2007
Client had difficulties with Moodle db performance. Adapted some things in my.cnf. Later check the moodle docs on mysql performance. Maintenance things to do are optimize tables each week.
Moodle CSS IE7
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007There can be a problem with IE7 and Moodle blocks. If the text (or content) in the block is bigger than the block, IE7 half overlaps the block. A solution can be to decrease the text size or content.
Moodle Mailform
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Setup a mailform for Moodle. We choose the Dagon Design mail form to provide contact functionality to Moodle. The idea is that we setup a resource in a moodle course and link to the mailform from there and drop the relevant data in the form via url variables. What I ...
Moodle Request
Monday, December 10th, 2007Client requested print support for questionnaire module of Moodle. They want to print each question on a seperate page. Found that you can set printer settings with css. Moreover he wanted Excel export support in combination with the already existing txt/csv export. I will have a look at the current export ...
Moodle Customising
Monday, December 10th, 2007Added moodle login customisation, custom login with only email and password. Same strategy as another client. Copied files according to svn layout, except language files and styles They also want a mail form; customise DAGON mail form to make sure user is logged in in Moodle.
Xythos server not running
Friday, December 7th, 2007When running pushconfigupdate, the following error occurs: config.cs-pushupdates: [java] [2007-12-07T11:06:22Z] Error ServerRequest:110 Failure to contact server at 127.0.0.1:2223 java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException [java] [2007-12-07T11:06:22Z] Info XythosAdmin InternalAdminUtil:152 Could not contact server: 127.0.0.1:2223 The ip address of the Xythos server is set in bb\apps\xythos\xythos.properties
Blackboard Heapsize
Friday, December 7th, 2007Strange problem with setting max.heapsize in bb-config.properties . If we set it to 1,5GB Bb does not restart. Default it is set to 1024MB which causes no problems, increasing to 1280MB is also no problem. Maybe it is related to the relation between max.heapsize and max.permsize. Tomcat service does not start: in ...
Blackboard Search LX
Friday, December 7th, 2007Search LX is a third party building block providing full conten text search. Can be used instead of native Bb full content search (Lucene). In a load balanced environment you can set the indexer to let only one app server do the indexing via Manage Search LX -> Search Options.
Blackboard Trouble Shooting
Friday, December 7th, 2007Error when doing 'Content Orphaned from Owner' from Admin Panel -> Bb Content System -> Administrator Search. Very long search and then gives an error: "blackboard.persist.PersistenceException: marshall failed. For reference, the Error ID is 2510c8b8-d3f2-426d-afdc-8b72210546e5" My first thought that that is because of java runs out of heap space. Though min ...
Bb Monitoring
Thursday, December 6th, 2007Check if there are any sophisticated monitoring tools for Bb. Would be nice if you could monitor seperate parts of Bb. Of course you can use something like awstats and check which urls / subdomains are most frequently visited. Or monitor database tables, transaction logs etc. So also check if there ...
