Archive for April 9th, 2008

Groupings in Moodle 1.9

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Experimented with groupings (groups in groups) for client with world wide branches and businesses. Turned on groupings in Miscellaneous -> Experimental.

NTLM authentication

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Very interesting feature for Windows clients (new in Moodle 1.9): NTLM authentication works with IIS (native) and Apache (several ways including Samba Winbind and Apache mods)

Setup test environment

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Set up test environment to upgrade from 1.8.4+ to 1.9+: copied source code dir to test dir copied datadir backedup database create testdatabase update httpd.conf and reload apache install moodle 1.8.4+ from browser load backed up database in test environment download moodle 1.9+ code cp -a moodle 1.9 code to test environment upgrade to 1.9+ from browser Success