Technical+Stuff

Collaboration Hosting
Hosting your own collaboration server is as easy as turning an older PC box into a Linux machine. Once Linux is installed, PHP, Apache, and MySQL need to be installed and then you'll be off and running. Here are the links to the packages that are being used in Red Lion:


 * Back-channeling:** [|Click Here] for the link to the xhtmlchat package
 * Inspired by Knitter, a modified version of this package by David Warlick


 * Blogging:** [|Click Here]for the link to Wordpress MU
 * Wordpress MU allows for multi-user blogging that can be integrated with LDAP


 * Moodle:** [|Click Here]to download the latest version of Moodle for your server

Setup for each of the applications is virtually the same. First, after PHP and Apache web services are running, you must create a MySQL database for each of the above apps. An administrative user must be created for each database. We use [|WEBMIN] to do all of this in order to avoid command line and easily create databases, edit permissions, and even add tables and fields, if necessary.

After the SQL databases are setup, the install of each of these simply need to point to the database setup for that application and the admin user credentials must be added. The three apps, from above, were built and running relatively quickly after the creation of the databases.