moodle ubuntu setup

[itgeek]

Hi I have installed ubuntu 9.10. I am having problems finding where it has installed moodle. I followed the instructions Installing Moodle on an Ubuntu Workstation .

 

Thanks

[mwnci]

If you run a Windows based desktop, have you tried WinSCP. I find it helps me a great deal to keep track of where files are.

Have you looked in /var/www?

[rush_tech]

have you looked in the /usr/ folder

[glennda]

i would say var/www as this is where apache sets up a website first time round. if not also look in the apache config file under /etc/apache2/site-available if you look in there it should tell you where apache is looking for the files

 

Toby

[itgeek]

Ok, I have just looked in var/www its not in there...

I have had a look in usr folder not there?

 

it was in the usr/share/moodle??

 

why has it installed there??

 

Thanks

[clarky2k3]

If you run a Windows based desktop, have you tried WinSCP. I find it helps me a great deal to keep track of where files are.

Have you looked in /var/www?

 

I would also install and use webmin. Very, very useful!

[itgeek]

Thanks for the help.

 

Just one more quick question??

 

How do I move a folder from desktop to the /usr/share/moodle

 

It says its locked

 

 

Thanks

[danbuntu]

you need to use root access for this.

 

either 'sudo cp ~/Desktop/myfile /usr/share/moodle' from the cli

 

or

 

'sudo nautilus' from the cli to launch nautlius in root access mode

[glennda]

if you install the midnight commander you will find that looking for files/copying stuff is alot easier

 

Toby

[itgeek]

Thanks

 

 

I have it now installed and working!!!

 

Thanks for all your help

[powdarrmonkey]

Ok, I have just looked in var/www its not in there...

I have had a look in usr folder not there?

 

it was in the usr/share/moodle??

 

why has it installed there??

 

Thanks

 

Because you've installed it from the package in the official repositories. The package manager has no business poking around in /var/www and potentially publishing material without the administrator even realising, so it is left up to you to symlink from your publish point to /usr/share/moodle.

 

Note: symlink, don't copy or move or any other horror. This is the only way to have the moodle package maintain itself, during security updates for example.

 

If you're really interested, it's in /usr because it's not part of the base system, it's auxillary software, and it's in /usr/share because all the files are architecture-independent, that is they are not compiled for a particular processor. If they were, everything would be in /usr/lib. And finally, you symlink instead of hardlinking because you can't hardlink directories.

 

(powdarrmonkey is a Debian maintainer.)

Edited March 18, 2010 by powdarrmonkey
it's in /usr, not /var :doh: