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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

what's a floppy drive?

Do you have an active directory? if so you'll want to importing the users from that as it can then be used for authentication. If you want to use a linux platform then you'll want to look at samba for web as a means of sharing the folders. As for which linux distro it will run on which support mysql, apache and php - which is pretty much all of them. Personally I'd stick with ubuntu and delay things until the end of April to make sure you have the next LTS - but I'm sure others will have different ideas on this

no problems for the record though you only need to comment out the extension= line - this will stop the extension being loaded and just ignore all the other settings. Useful to bear in mind if you have any other extension problems. also have you found phpinfo? create a file called phpinfo.php and in it put: <?php phpinfo(); ?> called the file up in a browser and it will show you all the installed extensions and their settings

take look in the php.ini file in xampp\php and find the line: ;zend_extension = "\xampp\php\ext\php_eaccelerator.dll if it's got a ';' before it then that means it's been disabled and isn't running. So if there isn't a ';' then put on in, save and restart apache.

xammp comes with a php cache called: eAccelerator It's probably this that's causing the caching you're seeing. I believe you can turn it off in the xampp control panel.

we've got moodle on windows here. I'd prefer Linux but they won't let me.

I was hoping that rather then having to enter a whole load of glossary items I could just hook into an existing rss feed. It would be pretty quick then to re-work an existing block I have for word of the day. Potentially I could then distribute the block and presto tips for anyone that want's them.

You don't need to have a domain to tie into. It will just run samba server in the local machine, which takes next to no resources. granted you can't share a home partition between machine though.

I'm hoping to build a moodle module that shows a grammar tip every day. I'd like to do this using an Rss feed but I'm unable to find one. Does anyone know where I find a feed to use?

Any reason why you're using nfs and not samba? Ubuntu has samba support built in, just right click the folder and select sharing

for batch resizing (and a host of other things) you might also want to take a look at: ImageMagick: Convert, Edit, and Compose Images it's free, open Source and will churn through directory's of images happily. Because it's command line it's also scriptable.

you could move it onto sql express which is the free for use version of MS SQL

There is a web dav module/patch available to Moodle which will do this. It's a patch to Moodle core though. I'm interested how anyone else has tackled this problem

internally you can use any dns name you want - you can also add multiple bindings externally you will need a domain or subdomain that points to your moodle ip address. A subdomain for example would be: moodle.ockendon.thurrock.sch.uk to do this you would need access to your external dns config and you'd add moodle and the ip address, as your dns is externally managed you might need to contact them to arange this.

if you have access to your internal dns server this should be simple. Once you've got that done the process for external access is roughly the same. you don't need to delete or move this page. The bindings/ dns will sort this out for you. I

sorry to be a pain, can you explain step by step in what you just said to do do you mean the setting up the bindings? go to administrative tools and open the iis management console (if the console isn't their then install either using WIP or adding the role). From there right click the site in IIS manager and click edit bindings. Now click add and type in the web address you want to use - school.ac.uk etc. This now means that when the server receives a request for school.ac.uk it knows which site it should be serving up. IIS will show that you have two sites, default and your moodle site. You'll then probably need a dns entry on your local dns server to map school.ac.uk to the internal address of your server. I wouldn't even attempt to set up the LDAP stuff until you've got the basics working.

ahh yes my bad well here's the solution by way of recompense go the frontpage manager. Find the article you want to make 'sticky' and set it order to -1 click the save icon in the order column and now the article will be sticky

can I ask what the CEOP approved method of dealing with facebook and similar is in a college? should we be blocking it entirely and teaching about the dangers and correct usage. Or should we be allowing it and teaching about dangers etc?

you're going to need to provide a little more detail to get help with this. Which system are you talking about? moodle, sharepoint, joomla, drupal etc

for resolving internally you will need to set up a binding. right click the site in IIS manager and click edit bindings. Now click add and type in the web address you want to use - school.ac.uk etc. You will now need to make changes to your internal and external dns so that school.ac.uk resolves to the correct ip address. you don't want to be using the ip on the browser as this will become a pain latter on. as for 213.38.46.22, that ip seems to be dead as it won't ping. i would check that you've got the right IP and then contact your provider - get them to shut the mysql while you are at it as you defiantly don't need that port open

There's nothing to stop the Op upgrading the site themselves. It's often just a case of upload some files and run a patch. Hopefully they either know how to do this themselves or have it written into the support contract with the design company. There should be no need to wait for the hosting company - indeed many hosting companies that offer easy installs of Joomla (or any other CMS) don't actually take responsibility for any upgrades or patches as they don't want to be responsible for breaking any custom code or modules.

it's often impossible to go though the site and database removing code. You're best bet will be to restore from backup you have and fingers crossed you get a version without the hack. You sohuld just be able to run 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' or similar and it will install all the security patches you need to apache, mysql and php. The only problem you might have here is is you're running php4 rather then php5 A couple of releases down is really no good. it needs to the latest full stop. Joomla is a very popular CMS and once new releases are out there seems to be a dedicated core of spammers who will seek out the sites that don't update and attack them. I know this from experience. Also make sure that you don't have a big red warning about 'php register globals' in your admin panel. If you do then immediately fire the website design company.

which version of joomla are you running? My guess is that the site hasn't been upgraded to the latest joomla code and that's why it's been hacked. this is always the problem with cms systems - and in my experience particualry joomla. You've got to keep up with the new releases.

have you tried holding down shift and using the cursor keys?