Archive for August, 2008
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
hmm, after installing eAccelerator from the rpmforge repository, Moodle gave an error that shm is not enabled. Seems that somehow the rpmforge eAccelerator is not compiled with:
./configure –with-eaccelerator-shared-memory –with-eaccelerator-sessions –with-eaccelerator-content-caching
check the post I did on installing eAccelerator.
reinstalled eAccelerator from source according to above: problems are gone, big success.
I missed some ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
This post is an extension of Moodle client setup.
Creating new course format for client. Topics should be visible after a student filled in the feedback form. So I will built in a conditional check to open up the topics.
Feedback module should be adapted so with the confirmation mail also the ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Big Moodle setup for a client from the media. This post is intended as a working document to keep track of all the things we install and configure.
Modules installed:
Book module: maintained by Petr Skodak, so stable. Documentation.
(Feedback module: will be in core from 2.0. Documentation. Hmm, seems to be in ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Did some research on Moodle with one codebase. The dynamic config.php trick by getting vars from the url is easy. But I'm wondering how the cron works. If you run that via the commandline, how does it know which database to operate on? Same goes for local crons, though that ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Bonnie++
Did a performance test on a new server with bonnie++ . Ran as apache user.
Here's an article at Linux.com explaining about converting bonnie++ output to nice flash charts. Another more general article about using bonnie++ for FS benchmarking.
To convert the output to html, echo the last line of bonnie++ output ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
1. libphp-adodb is no longer installed in /usr/share/adodb. New installation path is now /usr/share/php/adodb.
Please update your php.ini file. Maybe you must also change your web-server configuraton.
2. You will need to go to http://localhost/acidbase first to force the database modifications for BASE.
3. You will need to go to http://localhost/acidlab first to ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Setup passwordless login via SSH with help of the CentOS wiki tutorial. Great system for making backups with rdiff-backup.
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Upgraded Mediawiki on our wiki server. Quite straightforward, only the FCKeditor was a pain in the ass to install. Finally found a tutorial on how to do it and after some fiddling it went fine.
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