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Chemistry Forum

A chemistry forum has been started at protonator.com.

You can actually create a member account and then post your questions in the forum. Questions will be answered here. If you feel like contributing to the forum that is also welcome.

 

Chem Page

A link to  chemistry page for high school students.

Markbook 2010

How to export marks to trillium

Gliese 581c

Gliese 581 Earth like planet in the Goldy Locks region

Moodle on Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Server

I have been wanting to try out moodle for some time and hence set out setting up a desktop on oracle virtual machine and installed lampserver. These are the steps taken. This is not a reference guideline for running moodle on a production environment only for testing on a desktop server.

Moodle in Ubuntu 10.04 running a lamp-server^ on a desktop

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lamp-server^
type “http://localhost” in your browser
Should see the page “It works”
enter your mysql password when prompted (twice)
sudo gedit /var/www/testing.php
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
save file exit
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
type “http://localhost/testing.php”
Should see the php version page
Now install phpmyadmin
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql phpmyadmin
enter your mysql password and enter the password for mysqlphp twice when prompted

Create folder for data of moodle
sudo mkdir /var/moodledata
sudo chmod 777 /var/www/moodledata

download moodle from “http://download.moodle.org/”
download file to home and copy to /var/www/moodle
sudo mv moodle-weekly-19.tgz /var/www/moodle
change directory to “cd /var/www/moodle”
When in dir moodle tar the zipped file
sudo tar -zxvf moodle-weekly-19.tgz
The above command is for ubuntu 10.04
To remove the zip file after extraxting  from /var/www
sudo rm -f moodle-weekly-19.tgz

In your browser

http://localhost/moodle

Now just answer questions and installation should take place smoothly
Note 1:
You may have to copy the config.php file and paste it into a new file and place it in /var/www/moodle
sudo gedit /var/www/moodle config.php
paste the contents shown on the page save and installation should continue.

Note2:
If the moodledata folder has not been created make sure you create it and change chmod  777
sudo chmod 777 /var/moodledata
Rest of the installation will go smoothly

Note 3:
Moodle unattented means the software will install without any prompts and will be quicker, if there are and problems it will prompt for action. Unattented is good

Assumption:
You can set up a lamp server with phpmyadmin

Globetrotters Inn

The globetrotter’s inn

Sunset

Sunset on the Arabian sea. The western coast of India.

Chinese Nets “Cheenavala”

Fort Cochin is an amazing town, the small streets and uniquely constructed houses reminds one of the British ties that this part of the country once had. The Chinese nets and the beaches are something still to relish.

Clock Tower

The clock tower in chinnakada is a land mark of Quilon city.