Getting started with a test instance of Moodle today.
I reposessed a Dell OptiPlex with a 933 Pentium III and 512 MB of RAM to run FreeBSD on for the Moodle system. Installation was ok. Apparently 4.9 does have a bunch of precompiled packages, but you have to download them by hand from an FTP site; they’re not on a CD and accessing an FTP site through sysinstall gives you only about four packages.
All the requisite packages are in my home directory on the Moodle box. The only thing I had to compile from the ports tree is PHP. It requires the addition of a bunch of options and the loss of the MySQL option.
Pointing Moodle to the LDAP server is pretty straightforward. It points to the fact that I’d like to have more user information in LDAP, but that’s no fault of Moodle.
I spent some time this afternoon working on a Earlham theme for the Moodle look. It goes pretty well, at the basic level. I may want to expand on it, but maybe not.
Posted by Rowan Littell at December 1, 2003 07:36 PM