apluslms/run-moodle-astra repository overview

⁠Moodle Astra container for local development and testing

This is a container for running Moodle⁠ with the Astra⁠ plugin. It serves as a course frontend that retrieves course contents from the MOOC grader⁠ and sends submissions there for grading.

Dockerfile is used to build the Moodle container. The built image has been pushed to Docker Hub so that you normally do not need to build it manually. The container is based on the moodle-docker⁠ repository and the moodle-php-apache⁠ container from Moodle HQ.

⁠Running a MOOC grader course with this container

Copy docker-moodle-up.sh and docker-compose-moodle.yml into the MOOC grader course directory (such as Aplus Manual⁠). The container is then started with docker-moodle-up.sh. The compose file mounts the course directory into the MOOC grader. Open http://localhost:8050/ in your web browser to access Moodle. The MOOC grader runs at http://localhost:8080/.

When the container is started for the first time, Moodle installs the database tables, which can take a couple of minutes of time. If the containers are stopped without destroying the data volumes (by using the ESC key with docker-moodle-up.sh), the database does not need to be installed again when the containers are started again at another time.

The Moodle container has a default administrator user with username admin and password admin. Additionally, users teacher, student, and assistant are also added automatically with passwords matching the username. The latest container version includes also an administrator with username root and another student newstudent.

⁠Moodle/Astra developers: running Astra unit tests

Copy docker-compose-moodle.yml, docker-compose-moodle-phpunit.yml, and docker-moodle-up.sh to the MOOC grader course directory. Then run the command ./docker-moodle-up.sh unittest in the course directory.