[Server-devel] Moodle administration

[Tony Pearson]

> I tried doing a git pull in the www root as root user, but got the 
> following error:
> [XS-root EduBlog]# git pull
> fatal: Unable to look up dev.laptop.org (port 9418) (Name or service not 

> known)
> Cannot get the repository state from 
git://dev.laptop.org/projects/EduBlog
> Any ideas on what might be wrong?

Tarun,
I already did the "git clone" and "git pull" for you.  I was in 
"var/www/html" when I did it, and it created the EduBlog directory and an 
EduBlog/.git subdirectory.  These are one-time operations.  I am not 
familiar with git, but it would seem to me that to do another "git pull" 
would mean have to erase the entire directory structure under 
/var/www/html and do the installation all over.  Unless you want to 
clobber the existing installation, I suggest that all updates now must be 
made live on the EduBlog beta server.

One alternative might be for you to perform a second "git clone" on your 
local /home/tarun directory, do a git pull there, and then hand 
selectively move files into the /var/www/html/EduBlog directories where 
appropriate.  Remember to properly set all the ownerships to 
'apache:nobody' and the "read-only" settings on the various files.

If you like, we can leave the current "EduBlog" directory as "production" 
and create a new subdirectory 'test' for new work that is used prior to 
merging into production.  This way you can try out your changes with 
http://edublog.venango.org/test/moodle instead of .../EduBlog/moodle.  We 
would also need to set up a new /var/www/test/moodledata for test, as we 
would not want changes to the test data impacting the production system. 
We could also change "mdl_" prefix to "test_" so that we can ensure the 
two databases do not interact.

In this manner, we keep EduBlog stable enough for the testers to evaluate 
your current stable version, while you work on the updated versions. Since 
we have multiple users, we need to work out process and procedures to make 
sure that everyone knows what is going on, communicates changes ahead of 
time, and so on.

I am in Mumbai this week, which is similar time zone as Hyderabad if you 
want to discuss over the phone, I can use VoIP.  Let me know what time and 
phone number is best to reach you at.

Tony (az990tony)





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