Moodle Upgrade VM

Vagrant configuration for testing Moodle upgrade from 1.9.19 to 2.6.

Unlikely to be of much use unless you meet all the following criteria:

• Need to upgrade Moodle from 1.x to 2.x (major version bump, lots of changes).
• Use Gentoo as your Linux distribution.
• Use Apache as your web server.
• Use MySQL as your database server.

Requirements

• Vagrant 1.3.5 or later.
• VirtualBox 4.3.x or later.

The VM has been tested with the following combination (both using Windows 7 as the host operating system):

• Vagrant 1.3.5 and VirtualBox 4.3.6
• Vagrant 1.5.x and VirtualBox 4.3.10

Vagrant box

The box used is a standard x86 Gentoo install, with the following changes:

• gentoo-sources is 3.4.76, as this VM needs to run on a machine without support for hardware virtualization. Gentoo kernels from 3.10 onwards hang - see: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12469

In addition, the following packages have been installed:

app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions
www-servers/apache
dev-db/mysql
dev-lang/php
app-admin/puppet

PHP needs to be built with support for the mysqli extension, so add the following line to /etc/portage/package.use:

dev-lang/php apache2 berkdb cli crypt ctype curl fileinfo filter ftp gd gdbm hash iconv intl ipv6 json ldap ldap-sasl mysql mysqli nls opcache phar posix readline session simplexml soap spell ssl tokenizer truetype unicode xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter zip zlib

PHP needs to be loaded as an Apache module. Add -D PHP5 to APACHE2_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/apache3.

The initial MySQL database needs to be set up:

/usr/bin/mysql_install_db

Apache and Puppet also need to be started on boot (MySQL is started in Puppet manifest):

rc-update add apache2 default
rc-udpate add puppet default

Puppet modules need to be installed (puppet module install):

gentoo/portage
puppetlabs/mysql

The global USE variable is set to: bindist -X apache2 mysql php