Questions tagged [moodle]

A free online learning management platform. Learning institutions can use it to set up websites to share learning materials in a community of teachers and learners who set up accounts.

Moodle is a platform to allow learning institutions to host their materials for sharing, collaboration and administration between teachers and learners, whose access is regulated by an account system. It is free, open source and community developed.

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Permissions problems with /var/www/html and my own home directory for a website document root

I'm trying to not give 777 permission in my /var/www/html folder, but I want to edit my files without sudo. So I thought to create a symlink of a folder in my home directory within /var/www/html. I created it using: sudo ln -sT…
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Browsers hang on Moodle site

I work with moodle sites, and in one of them my browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera) stop working whenever I activate edit mode on Moodle. They just stay loading the page when I try to edit anything on the site, for a couple of minutes, after which…
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Upgrading a live 8.04 LTS server to more up-to-date version

Running Apache, MySQL, PHP with Moodle 1.9.9 running as a school based CMS. All possible updates for 8.04 have been applied. Moodle 2.x from Versions 2.1 onwards needs Php version 5.3.2 which is included in more recent distribution version. Would I…
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On Ubuntu 16.04 server I am unable to upload large files in Moodle 3.2

I have installed Moodle 3.2 on Ubuntu server 16.04. I am not able to upload files bigger than 2 MB . The error I get is: enter code hereThe uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini. I changed the entry in…
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Adding the PHP json extension

I have Ubuntu 15.10 installed. I have also installed LAMP using the Ubuntu wiki help page. I then proceeded to set up Moodle via the web page installation. I hit a road block when I got Moodle requires the json PHP extension. Please install or…
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Trying to configure SSO for MOODLE

EDIT I don't actually see the 500 error in the apache2 error log. I switched moodle's configuration to try NTLM authentication in all browsers, rather than just in IE and the server 500 error no longer appears. I just need to find out what the…
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Creating a Web Server to run Moodle

I have been given an old computer (Windows 2000 for now) and I need to install an Ubuntu OS (I'm thinking about Ubuntu Server), Moodle and perhaps a website. After this, the people responsible for the network will connect my computer to it. What OS…
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Cannot log into MySQL

I have a very common problem with my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS/MySQL 5.7.18/WordPress running on a Digital Ocean droplet with 2 CPU, 40GB SSD and 16GB RAM. The droplet is only running one site and has hardly any traffic because it is still under…
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Error when trying to load mysql to Ubuntu 16.04

I'm new to Ubuntu so apologies if the answer to this is obvious. I tried searching for similar problems on the forum but couldn't find a solution. I'm trying to load mysql as part of a LAMP stack to run Moodle. However, I'm encountering an error…
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How do I install Moodle?

I have downloaded the package available on the project website. What steps do I have to follow now?
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Moodle - Ubuntu configuration for links on 12.04 - 32 bit

I have installed moodle on a server with an IP address of A.B.C.D, using the command sudo apt-get install moodle This site is sucessfully running on the following address http://localhost/moodle However, when I try to access moodle from another…
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Fail to get my apache2 to connect externaly

Hey im really i the need of help im running hyper-v with 2 servers one with bigbluebutton - works like a charm also from outside. and one with moodle installed on apache2- works like shit! So i have it up running on lan and can connect but only on…
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How to make a copy of my moodle production site

I am trying to make a copy of my moodle production site so that I can test an upgrade before upgrading the production site. I created a directory and copied the moodledata, moodle code and mysql database into the new directory but now I am stuck.…
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How to connect moodle server running Ubuntu server to outside world?

I work at a school where we have our internet distributed through three APs (it's a small school). I have connected one computer to the switch as my Moodle server. Assigned IP for that computer is, of course, 192.168.... I'd like to access my Moodle…
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How to tell whether any smtp server like postfix, ssmtp is already installed on Ubuntu 16.04?

I have moodle 3.1 set up on Ubuntu 16.04 minimal version. Moodle is unable to send any email and errors are pointing to smtp configuration. The mail notifications from moodle worked by default in dev server. But in production with same setups and…
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