<li>Quick preview of <ahref="http://www.dokeos.com/en/node/58">Dokeos features </a></li>
<li>Test Dokeos on <ahref="http://campus.dokeos.com">Free Campus</a></li>
</ul>
<p>This guide explains how to install Dokeos FREE. Please read this fully before proceeding with the installation.</p>Check <ahref="http://www.dokeos.com/en/buy.php">Dokeos PRO</a> and <ahref="http://www.dokeos.com/en/buy.php">Dokeos MEDICAL</a> for a complete learning suite with a Service Level Agreement. <br/>
can be installed on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX servers
indifferently. However, we recommend the use of Linux server for
optimal flexibility, remote control and scalability. <br/>
<br/>
Dokeos is mainly a LMS running <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">Apache</span>, <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">MySQL</span> and <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">PHP5</span> (the so called <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">AMP</span> trilogy). <br/>
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All these software are open source and freely available. <br/>
<li>To install <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">WAMP</span> (AMP on Windows), we recommend the <ahref="http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html">XAMPP</a> .exe installer<ahref="http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html"></a></li>
(AMP on Linux), use the Package manager of your favourite distribution (Synaptic, RPMFinder etc.).
For instance, on a Ubuntu server, use Shell or Synaptic following the
<ahref="http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Apache_HTTP_Server">Ubuntuguide on Apache</a> and the following sections</li>
<li>To install <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">MAMP</span> (AMP on Mac OS X), refer to the <ahref="http://www.mamp.info/en/index.php">MAMP</a> dedicated website<ahref="http://www.mamp.info/en/index.php"></a></li>
<li>Copy the dokeos directory in your Apache web directory. This can be
<spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">C:\xampp\htdocs\</span> on a Windows server or <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">/var/www/html/</span> on a Linux server</li>
<li>Open your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox...) and type
<spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">http://localhost/dokeos/</span> if you install locally or
<spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">http://www.domain.com/dokeos/</span> if you install remotely</li>
<li>Follow the web installation process. You can accept all default
values. Consider changing the admin password to remember it. </li>
</ul>
<br/>
The following directories need to be readable, writeable and executable for everyone:
<ul>
<li>dokeos/main/inc/conf/</li>
<li>dokeos/main/upload/users/</li>
<li>dokeos/main/default_course_document/</li>
<li>dokeos/archive/</li>
<li>dokeos/courses/</li>
<li>dokeos/home/</li>
</ul>
(where 'dokeos' is the directory in which you installed Dokeos)
<p>On Linux, Mac OS X and BSD operating systems you can use the CHMOD
777 command for this (although we recommend you seek advice from an
experienced system administrator).
In Windows, you may need to check the properties of the folders (by
<p>On Linux, Mac OS X and BSD operating systems you can use the CHMOD
666 command for this (although we recommend you seek advice from an
experienced system administrator).
In Windows, you may need to check the properties of the files and
folders (by right-clicking on them).</p>
<p>
<b>NOTES:</b><br/>
Do not modify the home_*.html files directly. Instead,
choose "Configure the homepage" in the Dokeos administration section.</p>
<p><spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">Windows</span> : with combination packages like XAMPP, out of the box, login and password
for MySQL should probably remain empty.</p>
<p></p>
<h3><strong> Configuration and security after installation</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Protect your configuration file: </strong>
make sure no one can overwrite it. You can find the config file in <em>(dokeos folder)</em>/main/inc/conf/configuration.php.
Make it read-only (windows/xwindows: right-click the file to edit the
properties. linux/bsd/macosx: use the chmod 444 command). The config
file is created by Apache so you may need to be root user to change its
permissions.</li>
<li><strong>Protect your installation folder: </strong>
if the <em>(dokeos folder)</em>/main/install
folder is still accessible, someone could install over your existing
version (you could lose your data that way). Move the folder somewhere
out of the web directories so it is not accessible, change its name, or
edit its properties so no one can read or execute it.</li>
<li><strong>For better security: </strong>
making the files world-writable will help you install, and solves many
issues for people without much admin experience. However, it's better
security to make the owner of the apache process (often called apache
or www-data) also owner of all the dokeos files and folders. Ths way,
these files need only be readable and writable by the Apache process
owner, not by the entire world.</li>
<li><strong>Configure your Dokeos installation: </strong>
in the administration section of Dokeos, you can use the Dokeos Config Settings to adjust the behavior of your installation.</li>
<li><strong>Configure Dokeos mail: </strong>
most of Dokeos uses the mail settings from the php.ini file. However,
the announcements tool uses phpMailer (another free software project)
and the settings for this tool can be adjusted in <em>(dokeos folder)</em>/main/inc/conf/mail.conf.php.</li>
</ul>
<br/>
<h3>PHP configuration</h3>
To get the best of Dokeos, you need to finetune PHP settings. Consider : <br/>
<ul>
<li>Editing php.ini file (on windows can be located at <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">C:\xampp\php\php.ini</span>, on Ubuntu Linux : <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini</span></li>
<li>search the word "max" and increase values to optimise the server</li>
<li>you may want to end up with the following values : </li>
</ul>
<divclass="code">
max_execution_time = 300 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds<br/>
max_input_time = 600 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data<br/>
memory_limit = 256M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB)<br/>
post_max_size = 64M<br/>
upload_max_filesize = 100M</div>
<p>
Some users could meet problems if their PHP settings don't fit
these ones:</p>
<ul>
<li>short_open_tag = On</li>
<li>safe_mode = Off</li>
<li>magic_quotes_gpc = On</li>
<li>magic_quotes_runtime = Off</li>
</ul>
<p>
Past Dokeos versions required register_globals to be set to On. This is
no longer necessary, this can be set to Off and Dokeos will work fine.</p>
<p><strong>BSD users:</strong> these php libraries have to be included during php installation:</p>
<ul>
<li>php-mysql The mysql shared extension for php</li>
<li>php-pcre The pcre shared extension for php</li>
<li>php-session The session shared extension for php</li>
<li>php-zlib The zlib shared extension for php</li>
<li>(optional) php-ldap if you want to be able to use LDAP authentication</li>
<li>5. Make sure that the file mimetex.cgi (or mimetex.exe) has right to be executed by the web-server process. For example, on a Ubuntu Linux system you may write a command like the following:</li>
