Let's see how easy it is to set up your data directory:
mkdir
command and call it uploaddir:
mkdir uploaddir
chmod
command:chmod -R 0777 uploaddir
chown
command. The user is usually apache
or www-data:
chown -R www-data:www-data uploaddir
You just created your data directory and made sure that it was in a safe place in your home directory outside of the htdocs
directory. Then you changed the permissions, users, and groups for the directory to make it easy for Mahara to put things in and to delete things.
Let's take a quick look at the file structure that you have just created for your Mahara installation:
So far, you have downloaded and put the Mahara files into place on your server, and seen how to create the database and dataroot needed to store all the Mahara information.