Moodle, IT and me

Last week I had a huge laugh when I heard that Saw 6 was at the cinema. In French you pronounce Saw 6 as “saucisse”, which means “sausage”. I’ve just watched the trailer, they took care to change the 6 into VI, and to not say the movie title. It’s easily the number one must funny title ever in French.

Probably the producer didn’t want to stop the joke here. So they’ll be producing Saw 7, 8 maybe 9 and more. So next year, the French will have the pleasure to update all their parodies with Saw 7, or more likely pronounce by little kids: sock!

Download the MAMP Moodle package and follow the installation process.
Note: when I run MAMP, I changed the Apache Port to 80 into MAMP preferences.

Then follow all the steps on this page: http://www.webopius.com/content/355/getting-mamp-working-with-ssl-on-os-x (Note: I didn’t set the optional virtualhost). This will not be enough to make Moodle works straight with https, that’s why I’m writing this post. But you’re almost there

In /Application/MAMP/conf/apache/ssl.conf, change the document root (DocumentRoot) for the one you have into /Application/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf

Turn off MAMP if it’s not already done

Go into your apache folder (‘cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/apache2′)

Run your apache 2 server into ssl mode (‘sudo ./apachectl startssl’)

Bingo, it should work.