16 September 2009, 19:20

16 September 2009, 20:09

Hi Camilo,

I had some issues with a win 7 xamp install until I set the $cfg->wwwroot in the config.php - try setting it instead of relying on Mahara to guess the wwwroot and see if that works.

17 September 2009, 19:23

I am using the following configuration:

$cfg = newStdClass;

$cfg->dbtype   = 'postgres8';

$cfg->dbhost   = 'localhost';

$cfg->dbport   = '5432';

$cfg->dbname   = 'mahara';

$cfg->dbuser   = 'root';

$cfg->dbpass   = 'pass';

$cfg->dbprefix= '';

$cfg->dataroot = 'C:\\xampp\\datamahara';

I can login sucessfully in mahara but, the login time is too short and I don´t know how change this parameter, Please how can i get login in mahara as administrator for a longer time?.

17 September 2009, 20:46

as I mention in my post above - try setting $cfg->wwwroot in your config.php

if you look at the config-dist.php file you will find the $cfg->wwwroot commented out by default as Mahara tries to automatically detect this - it doesn't always work reliably under windows.

it might need to be something like:

$cfg->wwwroot = 'http://localhost ';
or:
$cfg->wwwroot = 'http://localhost/mahara';

18 September 2009, 0:23

Hi,

you will find the session lifetime setting in "/admin/site/options.php"

Please take care that this affects not only your time but the session life time for all users.

HTH Heinz

18 September 2009, 12:16

Dan, Thanks but I already changed the config as you said. Heinz shoul I change this part of the code?

        ),

        'sessionlifetime' => array(

            'type'         => 'text',

            'size'         => 4,

            'title'        => get_string('sessionlifetime','admin'),

            'description'  =>get_string('sessionlifetimedescription', 'admin'),

            'defaultvalue' =>get_config('session_timeout') / 60,

            'help'         => true,

        ), 

20 September 2009, 16:06

20 September 2009, 17:10

just to confirm - you've set the wwwroot in config.php right? - NOT the dataroot which you pointed out in the post above? - the reason I'm pushing on this is that I've seen the exact same issue under Win 7 prior to setting the wwwroot. - and you haven't posted details confirming that you've done that.

*Edit* - also In your post above you have listed your dataroot with double slashes - any reason why you've done that? - shouldn't it be:
$cfg->dataroot = 'C:\xampp\datamahara';

20 September 2009, 18:48

13 November 2009, 15:54

Are there any step by step instructions on how to do a install with XAMPP and Mahara on local host? Much appreciated. (using Moodle 2.0)