Moodle is running...

FINALLY!!! I got Moodle running. I stii haven’t tested anything and I expect it will take some time before I’m able to do anything really interesting, but at least it is running, which means Apache, MySQL and PHP are configured properly. I’m pretty happy about that!!! (Understatement of the year…) Now the real work can begin.

I’ve freed some space on my Mini’s hard drive and I was looking into partioning it to install Windows Server 2003 and/or Ubuntu Server natively instead of running them in a virtual machine using Parallels. I haven’t tried Windows Server in a virtual machine, but Ubuntu Server simply stalled during the reboot after the installation. I have no clue what the problem is. Windows XP and the desktop version of Ubuntu both work fine, although I couldn’t get Moodle running in those either, nor in Mac OS X on my Mini. Anyways, after reading a lot in Moodle’s forums, I learnt that Moodle doesn’t run on Intel Macs yet. What?!? The website never mentioned anything about Moodle not running on Intel Macs. It just said: “Best used on Mac OS X 10.4.2 or later.” My software’s up-to-date and, usually, running PPC software isn’t a problem on my Intel Mini. It just works. There are, however, a few specialized applications which do not work well - or at all - in Rosetta (Mac OS X’s PPC-to-x86 translation tool). It would have saved me soooooooo much time if I had known from the start that Moodle was one of them!!! But hey! Moodle is free… so I’m just happy it’s working now.

Since I’ll be using my old iBook to do all my Moodle-related stuff and my Mac Mini for pretty much everything else, I’ll try to install Synergy and set up a software keyboard-and-mouse switch. If it works well, I’ll be able to drag my mouse from my Mini’s screen to my iBook’s and cut-and-paste from one computer to the other easily.

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