24 March 2009, 8:45

Hi,

 I got the task to set up mahara for the students at our chair. so i am limited by the "rules" of our university`s computer center. So we thought about using our chair`s vmware virtualization environment.

Sothere are some questions:

1. Are there any experiences with mahara and virtualisation?
2. If I get it right, MAHARA is a web-application using/connected to a database. So if I want to set it up, all I need is a working MYSQL-database and a working webserver for the frontend? Are there any more requirements?

Thx in advance.

Horst

24 March 2009, 9:43

Hi Horst,

greetings from Germany 

I don't know users how have tried to work with virtualization. Nigel will be a better guy in this are.

About your setup rewuirements you are right. I prefer postgresql

You will find the instaaltin requirements right here:

http://wiki.mahara.org/System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Installing_Mahara

Hope that helps

Heinz

24 March 2009, 18:04

Hi,

Mahara doesn't care about virtualisation - the whole idea of virtualisation is that it looks like it's running on its own server . So it should run just fine. We run Mahara in vservers all the time at Catalyst (vserver is a linux virtualisation solution).

Yes - Mahara is a database-driven webapp. Check out the installation instructions for the exact requirements