Networking prerequisites and security
Moodle networking requires a number of additional components, that deal with secure communication and safe data exchange, to be installed on your servers.
Required PHP extensions
The following elements have to be installed on all Moodle servers that are participating in the network:
- curl: A PHP library of calls that are specifically designed to safely fetch data from remote sites. If not installed, you will have to recompile PHP and add
--with
curl
when runningconfigure
script. - openssl: Another PHP library that provides encryption functionality without the need to purchase an SSL certificate (
--with
openssl
). - xmlrpc: A PHP library that supports remote procedure calls via XML (
--with
xmlrpc
).It is possible to add ...
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