Questions tagged [moodle]
Moodle is an open source learning management system (LMS) written in PHP.
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Memcache+PHP session tuning: How does memcache expire keys?
I've done some research into this and have not found a definitive answer.
We have a web app that is using the PHP+Memcache session handler.
I have several questions, all interrelated, but ultimately ...
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Linux Server hacked? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
My server's been hacked EMERGENCY
I'm trying to determine if this linex webserver/openfire server has been compromised by some form of malware or a hacker. Can you please ...
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need advice on building a scalable architecture for moodle
I'm looking into designing an architecture for a moodle based education site, it will serve several thousand users at first but needs to be able to grow to support hundreds of thousands to millions of ...
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Running Moodle with nginx in userdir (slash arguments)
I am moving Moodle (moodle.org) from an Apache host to a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS host running Nginx. The way the host is set up means that it will running quite a few domains where every domain (or other ...
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Azure files with Network File System
I have to run Moodle production servers in Azure. Need to keep userdata (moodledata folder) in a common location like NFS for better management and scalability. I tried Azure Files-SMB service (...
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Moodle: Error during Installation
I am trying to install Moodle and everything seems fine but then when it comes to Admin user creation process, it seems as there is no CSS file, and "update profile" button does not perform any action....
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Custom password policy for Moodle
I'm looking for a way to add custom password policies for a Moodle site.
I need be able to configure the following:
to force users to change their passwords after 60 days
require the user to not ...
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Using Apache2 Worder MPM with Moodle
Is Moodle (I am using Moodle 2.5.2) compatible with Apache2 "Worker MPM" (in contrast to "Prefork MPM").
If it is indeed compatible, has has anyone tried both and is able to say which performs better ...
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Moodle on Apache: two virtual hosts with single login
I have a moodle installation on centOS with two folders (virtual hosts)- /2012 and /2011. When browsing to "http://my.moodle/2012" or "http://my.moodle/2011" and authenticating (to either one), how ...
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Moodle serves on IP only - will not work with mod_proxy
I'm trying to set a moodle server up on an Ubuntu box, which already serves Plone & Trac via Apache.
In my Moodle config I have $CFG->wwwroot = 'http://www.server-name.org/moodle'
The (...
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How to recover a server from a tar file
In moodle the LMS you can export courses, as a tar.gz, some one said they were going to give me such a thing. I was suprised by the 6 gb size. I was even more suprised when I extracted it, and found ...
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I can't have my virtualhosts working properly in Apache
Although I know that this topic has been already discussed in some other threads where it is explained how to configure Virtualhosts in Apache. The thing is after looking for possible answers to my ...
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Moodle: since Update to 2.9.1, User can't change their password
recently I updated a moodle site from 2.6.7 to 2.9.1.
The moodle itself runs quit fine, but user can't change their passwords anymore.
I checked the roles settings: ("moodle/user:changeownpassword = ...
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How to disable suhosin only for a certain directory
I need suhosin disabled for my moodle directory, would putting a .htaccess file disable it only for that directory or would that disable it for the whole site?
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Cookies Not Setting in Load-Balanced Environment
I have an Nginx load balancer load balancing two nginx servers serving PHP content (Moodle) up. They share the same database and use the same sessions directory using an NFS share on a separate server....
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Apache gives empty reply
It happens randomly, and only on moodle installations. Apache don't add a line in the logs when this happens, and I don't know where to look.
koke@escher:~/Code/eboxhq/moodle[master]$ curl -I http://...
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httpd cannot access external directory - moodle
I am installing moodle in rhel instance. I want to keep the directory 'moodle' outside of the /var/www/http. I followed this documentation. In order to define the moodle directory, I updated the /etc/...
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Moodle on EFS is slow
I hope you can help me with me problem with EFS.
I have installed Moodle on an Amazon EC2 and I mounted EFS following the guides provided in the website.
The problem I face is that Moodle is very ...
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Moodledata on shared storage on AWS
I am in the process of setting up a simple Moodle cluster on AWS for production use. The plan is to use a loadblancer, two EC2 instances and a RDS. I have worked extensively with Moodle before but ...
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Moodle data folder error
I am trying to set up an instance of Moodle on Amazon EC2 for a Uni project. I follow the installation tutorial to the "T" but when I try to access the url, all I get is this:
Fatal error: $CFG->...
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Active Directory Limited Admin for Moodle LDAP integration
I have Moodle which I already integrated to Active Directory (LDAP). The integration needs user for binding (To authenticate users).
I want to limit that user because its currently member of Domain ...
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WordPress+HTML -> Moodle
One has a site with a lot of (a lot of a lot of) pages in HTML. The pages are managed through WordPress and includ motions, different fonts, videos, images, etc., ie, are elaborated pages.
Because of ...
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Moodle behind ssl reverse proxy: "Reverse proxy enabled, server can not be accessed directly, sorry."
I tried to make moode run behind a ssl reverse proxy using this solution but I get the following error:
Reverse proxy enabled, server can not be accessed directly, sorry.
Please contact server ...
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Failing to correctly parse Slash Arguments with php-fpm/apache
I recently set up a new webhosting server at work on a Debian Stretch system using Apache 2.4 and PHP7 via proxy_fcgi and php-fpm.
It worked fine in the testing stages, but the first customer is ...
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PHPMailer, from EC2 to SES AWS limits
I need a clarification on something.
I have installed Moodle on an 2 EC2 instances as cluster. Moodle is using PHPMailer.
In the settings of Moodle I have set the SMTP host as email-smtp.us-east-1....
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A stock install of Moodle doesn't seem to run on CentOS or RHEL 6.3
I've got a clean instance of CentOS and a clean instance of RHEL 6.3 - I've tried to installed Moodle on both.
Error: Database connection failed
It is possible that the database is overloaded or ...
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CentOS: Can't connect remotely to mysql server but I can 'nc' to it
I have two VMs, both running CentOS.
One is web server: 10.2.2.59
-- in this server I put Moodle web application files.
One is DB server: 10.2.2.58
I installed MySQL and it is running nice, changed ...
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Website fail over using 2 IP address
We have a moodle webserver with 2 Public IPs (different ISPs). Is it possible to make a mechanism, to access the website with other IP, if the first ISP connections fail? We have added 2 public IPs in ...
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Moodle 3.7 & Apache & reverse proxy results ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
Moodle 3.7 Apache with reverse proxy results ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS.
I have an SSL site with following vhosts file on Frontend server:
<VirtualHost *:80>
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
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Can users connect to Moodle Chat with an IRC client?
Moodle is an interesting Learning Management System. One of the tools it offers is a chat session. I don't know how it works under the hood, but the provided front-end is a weak javascript tool. Is ...
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OPTIMIZE TABLE innodb file per table while system is running
I had an 800 GB Moodle mdl_logstore_standard_log.ibd database file.
I deleted around 900 million rows in 10-15 days.
The .idb file was around 800GB and still the same size after deletion.
I want to ...
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Moodle 2.9 super slow on wamp
I have a Moodle platform on WAMP architecture (2 app servers and 1 db server, all working with the same shared directory for moodle files). Php 5.5.12 Apache 2.4.9 Mysql 5.6.17 Win server 2012r2
The ...
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nginx, php and urls with php files in them [closed]
I've just done an install of moodle and it's using urls like this for its theme:
http://moodle.example.com/theme/styles.php/standard/1380191797/all
nginx isn't picking up that that's a call to a PHP ...
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moodle with 10 threads is slow on lighttpd
I runnnig Moodle on Lighttpd on Centos 6 with 1G RAM.
If I open 10 threads to moodle then moodle starting to be very slow.
How I can to speed the server? I need to serve lot of users.
I checked the ...
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Multiple entries in apache access log
In the apache access log for bitnami moodle on GCP, there are multiple entries (added every second!!) as given below. This is leading to a very high egress traffic. I would appreciate any pointers to ...
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ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS when setting up NGINX proxy in front of NGINX proxy and moodle in k8s
I have a pod running moodle and it has NGINX in front of it. The configuration of it is here:
https://github.com/google/moodle-on-gcp/blob/main/4-moodle-image-builder/base/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
In my ...
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I am noticing spike in CPU usage in the server, please see the image
I am noticing spike in CPU usage in the server, please see the image. How do I know which is process is causing the CPU usage spike. I am trying to figure out why the spike is there. Is there a tool ...
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How to tell sqlsrv extension (php8.1-fpm) to accept self signed certificate?
I am currently encountering a problem on a Moodle server which uses an external MS SQL DB for its authentication and enrollments.
During connection, an error occurs related to a self-signed ...
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Nginx proxy on moodle error - too many redirects
I'm learning about proxy cache and load balancing on Nginx lately and been having some problems trying to make a proxy work for a moodle installation that i have, it says "too many redirects"...
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LDAPS Auth very slow in Moodle
I have a moodle-installation that uses LDAPS auth which is very slow or does not work at all. It is debian 12, apache2.4, moodle4.1 and php7.4.
I had a test installation where things were just fine, I ...
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OpenLDAP + Moodle, member of groups
the teachers in my OpenLDAP are in cn=teachers,ou=groups,dc=school,dc=de
the course creator context in my Moodle installation should then be the same if I am not mistaken. If I query ldap
BINDUSER=&...
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Moodle Migration to new server
I have been running a moodle server in aws. Recently the server became not accessible through ssh or http protocols. On trying several things I had to start anew server. The storage of old server is ...
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configure nginx to work with django and moodle
I'm trying to configure nginx to run a moodle website in parallel to a django one and a jellyfin one. My domain name is www.example.com and I would like to set everything that ends with www.example....
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Is there "another" way of getting log information on SFTP activity?
I'm administrating a debian server since last week. It used to have another administrator.
I presume it's been hacked: files might have been read via SFTP to obtain information about a site that's ...
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My site redirect me to my ip address [duplicate]
Hi i'm using nginx and ubuntu 18
for my moodle site
i add a domain, and everytime i try to access it , it alway redirect me to my IP address.
here is my block
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /...
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Virtual Host Setup Redirecting Request to Local IP address
I want to make an application running on apache2 (ubuntu) available over the internet. So i decided to setup virtual host after purchasing a SSL certificate. Everything works fine on my Local network.
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Moodle over dedicated server suddenly stopping
moodle suddenly stops over a cloud server
I migrated my cloud to GoDaddy's Dedicated server it was working fine but today moodle suddenly is stopping and then going online again the stop lasts between ...
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can't ssh to download data from gcloud instance running centos6 to get moodle backup due to possible hack
I have a centos 6 lamp moodle server in a gcloud vm instance, 2 days ago users reported issues accessing moodle with a database connection error.
Through my research this is what I found:
restarting ...
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Redirect from http to https stopped working after update of Moodle
After Moodle elearning system update, the redirection from http to https is not working anymore.
Environment: Debian 9, Bitnami Moodle appliance, Apache web server
Port 80 and 443 are opened in ...
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Ellakcy moodle-compose repo: Used the solution but I get 303 redirect loop
I used the docker-moodle solution offered from ellkcy's repository that used their built docker images. But for some reason I get a 303 redirect loop and the browser fails to load the moodle.
Over my ...