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 ===== Installation Guide ===== ===== Installation Guide =====
-**Open eClass 4.3**+**Open eClass 4.4**
  
  
-The Open eClass platform is a complete Course Management System. It is the solution offered by the Greek Academic Network GUnet to support Asynchronous eLearning Services. It is mainly designed, developed and supported by the GUnet Asynchronous eLearning Group and is distributed for free as open-source software.+The Open eClass platform is a complete Learning Management System. It is the solution offered by the Greek Academic Network (GUnet) to support Asynchronous eLearning Services. It is mainly designed, developed and supported by the GUnet eLearning Group and is distributed for free as open-source software.
  
 The Open eClass has been tested and works without problems in: The Open eClass has been tested and works without problems in:
   * Ms Windows   * Ms Windows
   * MacOS X   * MacOS X
-  * Various Linux distributions (e.g. RedHat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSuse etc)+  * Various Linux distributions (e.g. RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSuse etc)
  
  
-Current version of Open eClass DOESN'T include database administration tool phpMyAdmin. If you wish, you can copy folder (path του eclass)/modules/admin/mysql/ in a temporary folder (e.g. /tmp). After upgrade has completed you can restore it to its previous location. Otherwise you can download latest version from [[http://www.phpmyadmin.net/|here]].+The current version of Open eClass DOESN'T include the phpMyAdmin database administration tool. If you wish, you can copy the folder (eclass installation root)/modules/admin/mysql/ to a temporary folder (e.g. /tmp) and, after the upgrade has completed, restore it to its previous location. Otherwise you can download the latest version from [[http://www.phpmyadmin.net/]].
  
  
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-==== 1.2 PHP (versions >= 8.1) ====+==== 1.2 PHP (versions >= 8.2) ====
  
 During PHP installation, it is important to activate the Apache support for PHP. Note that you will need to activate support for ''mysql, zlib, pcre, mbstring,intl, gd'' modules in PHP. If you wish to use an LDAP server to authenticate users, you have to activate the module for ''ldap'' support as well. Most of the PHP distributions have built-in support for these modules (except for the ldap module maybe). The above requirements are checked during Open eClass installation. During PHP installation, it is important to activate the Apache support for PHP. Note that you will need to activate support for ''mysql, zlib, pcre, mbstring,intl, gd'' modules in PHP. If you wish to use an LDAP server to authenticate users, you have to activate the module for ''ldap'' support as well. Most of the PHP distributions have built-in support for these modules (except for the ldap module maybe). The above requirements are checked during Open eClass installation.
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-You can decompress the openeclass-4.2.tar.gz file using the ''tar xzvf openeclass-4.2.tar.gz'' command. The sub-directory created during decompression of the packet includes all the application files and has to be placed in an accessible point by the computer web server.+You can decompress the openeclass-4.4.tar.gz file using the ''tar xzvf openeclass-4.4.tar.gz'' command. The sub-directory created during decompression of the packet includes all the application files and has to be placed in an accessible point by the computer web server.
  
 To give access rights to web server you can type the following commands (e.g. if the web server runs as a www-data user) To give access rights to web server you can type the following commands (e.g. if the web server runs as a www-data user)
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 ==== 3.6  Other settings ==== ==== 3.6  Other settings ====
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-Finally, it should be noted to the users of the platform that they need to have javascript activated on their browser. 
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-  * For Internet Explorer users, choose consecutively Internet Options/Security/Custom Level/Security Options from the menu and check the "Scripting of java applets" option. 
-  * For users Mozilla Firefox, choose consecutively Edit / Preferences / Web features from the menu and check the Enable Java script for Navigator option. 
  
 **For Unix / Linux systems only**: **For Unix / Linux systems only**: