[Server-devel] Browsing folders

[David Leeming]

Martin,

Your solution works great! I just used a link in the Who.php file. I'll try
the latter later.

David Leeming
Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands
Alternative email address: leemingdavid at yahoo.com.au 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Leeming [mailto:leeming at pipolfastaem.gov.sb] 
Sent: Friday, 13 February 2009 7:02 a.m.
To: 'Martin Langhoff'
Subject: RE: Browsing folders

Hi that's great, exactly what I want. I certainly want Moodle! It's just
that I want to build on the simple method I have been doing and then move
over to more Moodle use as an when I learn, and when it seems appropriate in
terms of usability. 

I just need some time to spend on working out how to do the same things
within moodle. I know how to set up courses in Moodle but that's not the
best way to simply browse content outside a specific course context. I need
to learn how to use Moodle to benefit from the content management whilst all
the time thinking about reducing barriers for users.

Many thanks and the Moodle is certainly very welcome - jsut need more time!


David Leeming
Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands
Alternative email address: leemingdavid at yahoo.com.au 


-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langhoff at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 12 February 2009 8:49 p.m.
To: David Leeming
Subject: Re: Browsing folders

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:20 PM, David Leeming
<leeming at pipolfastaem.gov.sb> wrote:
> I want to be able to browse folders on the school server using a connected
> XO
> /var/www/html/

It should be possible. Do like this

  - create a subdir - /var/www/html/library
  - add a file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ that says "Alias /library
/var/www/html/library"
  - restart apache

from that point onwards, the content will appear in
http://schoolserver/library -

 - an easy way to add the link so that it appears from moodle is to
edit the header if the 'olpcxs' theme. (can't remember the exact path
now, "rpm -ql moodle-xs | grep header" will tell you)

OTOH, if you want to bypass moodle completely and have things the old
way, move or delete /etc/httpd/conf.d/moodle and the XS will forget
that moodle exists.

Does that help?

cheers,



m
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