[ale] Newbee needing help #5

[Björn Gustafsson]

Hi Bruce,

I don't know if you received an answer on this question yet (too much
line noise :).  Since I don't use either SUSE or Moodle, I don't have
any simple or specific answers for you, but I'd like to make a couple
of suggestions.

First I would suggest that you first start by reading through the
Moodle site's "Free Support" link and in particular the sections
called "Moodle Documentation" and "Installation Problems" under the
Getting Started topic.  A quick review makes it look like a pretty
good resource. (Their installation doco starts with "Don't Panic!" :)
Plus you can ask topic-specific questions there and get answers from
people who actually know what Moodle is (unlike me ;)

Second, you probably want to clarify some things in what you said
below.  For example, did you manage to install Moodle yet?  (Not being
a SUSE user, I don't know if it's an available module or what.)  If
you have, did you get your index.htm into Moodle's "root directory",
or some other root?  (Hint: if you put it into the system's root
directory (aka "/") you're pretty unlikely to ever see it on your
Moodle server.)  Also, my now five minutes of experience with Moodle
indicates that it uses .php files rather than .htm files, so you may
need to start from some other point.

If you haven't yet installed Moodle, you'll first need to get Apache,
MySQL and PHP up and working on your box (per the Moodle installation
doco).  All of those should have standard SUSE modules that you can
install through the distro's installation tools (YUM, or whatever it
uses these days).

Oh, and thanks for your questions. I've learned something new today!

HTH,
Bj?rn (Linux user since 1994)

On 7/18/06, Bruce Jones <bruce.jones at mindspring.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> My reason for setting up SUSE is to operate Moodle (Blackboard knockoff) content to my students, specifically streaming video lectures (I teach CAD/Illustration online) to my students online.
>
> The issue, I have a static IP address, I have a registered site name, I have a ADSL connection (all thru Mindspring), I have SUSE Linux 10.0 running reasonably well, I can create and place a file index.htm in my root directory. How do I connect all these elements to make my machine available as an internet accessible server to my studnets?
>
> Bruce