by Visvanath Ratnaweera.
Hi Mary
So it is the first one: "Run a Moodle site for your class on a CentOS Linux VPS you rented ..." except that there is no class, just you working on Moodle.
It makes sense. A test platform in the Internet is very practical. You can work in it from any client machine which is online.
In that case you don't need Linux system administration, nor CLI even at an intermediate level. Just the very basic usage of a few other (not Linux built-in) commands like "git pull", "mysql -u dbuser -p", bar viewing or editing a text file (real once, not these https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=226174 ;) are sufficient.
If you are keen to start what you want within a reasonable time (2. June?), send the access details you got from your VPS vendor to a helper. Ask to set up Moodle 2.5dev with git and hand you the keys back, with basic instructions on how to take over the VPS. You should be all right from there.
I can offer to do it only in the coming week end. Ask Ken first, he is more in to the RedHat family (there is a whole series, CentOS is only one of them. See the full list in http://distrowatch.com/ lower third column "Page hit rankings" with intro page per distribution).
So it is the first one: "Run a Moodle site for your class on a CentOS Linux VPS you rented ..." except that there is no class, just you working on Moodle.
It makes sense. A test platform in the Internet is very practical. You can work in it from any client machine which is online.
In that case you don't need Linux system administration, nor CLI even at an intermediate level. Just the very basic usage of a few other (not Linux built-in) commands like "git pull", "mysql -u dbuser -p", bar viewing or editing a text file (real once, not these https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=226174 ;) are sufficient.
If you are keen to start what you want within a reasonable time (2. June?), send the access details you got from your VPS vendor to a helper. Ask to set up Moodle 2.5dev with git and hand you the keys back, with basic instructions on how to take over the VPS. You should be all right from there.
I can offer to do it only in the coming week end. Ask Ken first, he is more in to the RedHat family (there is a whole series, CentOS is only one of them. See the full list in http://distrowatch.com/ lower third column "Page hit rankings" with intro page per distribution).