Moodle Server setup

[zag]

How have people got their Moodle servers setup?

I have just recieved a new server with instructions to "install moodle" on it for evaluation. Never used the software myself so though I would ask here first before starting.

Can it be run on a windows 2003?

[Jona]

It certainly can be run on 2003, here for testing purposes we run it on top of the apache xampp package - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Although in a production enviroment we configure Apache, php and mysql manually so they are more secure.

[zag]

I used WAMP as it seemed to fit the needs better. All up and running now so thanks.

Next question is how do I get to use it externally on the internet? The configuration file config.php

$CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://rgmoodle';

Works great internally but when I try and access the site from the internet it always points towards the internal servername.