huanix

So I heard from this guy who wants to use SSO (single sign-on) to link his moodle with mahara. The fellow used fantastico to install moodle onto a hosted server and he was going nuts because SSO wasn’t working. The host is a small company and they are running Ubunty Gutsy (7.10) (after they should have upgraded to 8.04 LTS).

Since I didn’t want to break his site, and since I’ve got hardware, I built a minimalistic 7.10 server with only the bare essentials. I added apache2, php5, mysql-server, php5-mysql, libapache2-mod-php5, and php5-curl. I installed moodle 1.9.1+ (weekly build) from download.moodle.org.

I was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to replicate the problem, but lo and behold, no Public Key was generated. It was actually a simple fix: I installed SSL and restarted apache - suddenly there was a key! All that work, and my first hunch was absolutely correct. They should pay me to do this.

The code:
sudo apt-get install openssl
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

ALL Done!

Before:

After: