Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server

2009-01-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Dan Poltawski wrote: > One slight drawback to this approach is that it does conflict with the goal > of eventually rebasing onto Moodle 2.0. In Moodle 2.0 the complete file layer > has been rewritten which means some of the work would be of targeting 1.9 > only. (

Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server

2009-01-20 Thread Dan Poltawski
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:41:15PM -0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I agree. Consider that Moodle - with the appropriate patches written > by yours truly - does let you run webdav for file upload and > management, *and* lets you browse the files without "seeing" moodle > around them. No "login", no

Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server

2009-01-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:05 PM, David Leeming wrote: > I am aware of what Moodle can do but disagree that file access should always > be through it. It's much easy to go straight to the folders of content > rather than having to log on and enrol on courses etc. I agree. Consider that Moodle - wi

Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server

2009-01-17 Thread David Leeming
David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands Alternative email address: leemingda...@yahoo.com.au From: Anna [mailto:ascho...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 17 January 2009 5:08 a.m. To: Martin Langhoff Cc: David Leeming; XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Bro

Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server

2009-01-17 Thread David Leeming
Hi Martin, I am aware of what Moodle can do but disagree that file access should always be through it. It's much easy to go straight to the folders of content rather than having to log on and enrol on courses etc. Much of the time in the way I see teachers using the server they won't be working fr

Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server

2009-01-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Anna wrote: > Since, at least for now, we're not going to be using moodle in Birmingham > yet, I renamed you break my heart with that, but it's a valid workaround :-) cheers. m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask

Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server

2009-01-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I was part-joking, didn't mean to make you feel back... s/back/bad/ m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code fir

Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server

2009-01-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Anna wrote: > I'm very sorry, Martin, but I hope you understand the reasoning behind the > decision. I was part-joking, didn't mean to make you feel back... it turns out I did undestand in general terms why; but your email is very valuable in terms of expanding on

Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server

2009-01-16 Thread Anna
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Anna wrote: > > Since, at least for now, we're not going to be using moodle in Birmingham > > yet, I renamed > > you break my heart with that, but it's a valid workaround :-) > I'm very sorry, Martin, bu

Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server

2009-01-16 Thread Anna
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > There is an alternative you can also use - less moodle-centric, and > may be unsupported going forward > > 1 - create a new directory: /var/www/mylocalcontent , put your files there > > 2 - add a new apache config file in /etc/httpd/con

Re: [Server-devel] Browsing school server

2009-01-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:00 AM, David Leeming wrote: > With version 0.4 and 0.5.0 I was able to browse the server html folders, > i.e. the default for the link on the XO browser to "Local School Server" > with 0.4 took you to > > /var/www/html > > With version 0.5, the default page is > > /var/ww