Turnkey Linux's Canvas LMS - What should I know

[Laxmin]

Hello all,

After trying to install Canvas on a local machine, i gave up at some point. It would have been fantastic if somebody had a video of the installation. (if there is indeed such a video, please let us know, thank you)

However, I stumbled onto turnkeylinux's canvas and was able to install in lesser than 20 minutes. (I first tested with Amazon s3, then grabbed the ISO and followed the few prompts).

I now understand that the turnkey's version installed on Debian with MySQL and I will be tied to turnkey's updates.

Is there any Issue I need to be aware of before I plunge into make this installation live for production? Do you recommend this recourse or do you think I should rather go back to trying to follow through on installing it fresh as per original instructions?

Your advices please!!

||though: why can't we have such as simplified version for canvas too... like turnkeylinux, packaged into a ready to install ISO? with all the packages, dependencies, configurations built right in, with a few prompts to fill in the domain and password variables alone||

Thank you.

[Jude]

Hi,

We used the turnkey version recently but ran into problems related to the version.

I'm actually doing a fresh install over the next few days so I'll try to keep screenshots for you and update here.

Cheers

Jude

[Jude]

Ok so I have a clean install up an running - want me to export the Hyper-V virtual machine for you and make it available for download? You can login and just change a few things and you'll be good to go.

[Edward Rey]

Hi Jude we're waiting for your VM hope we can test this and see your installation steps.

Thanks,

Edward

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Jude <jud...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok so I have a clean install up an running - want me to export the Hyper-V virtual machine for you and make it available for download? You can login and just change a few things and you'll be good to go.

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[Laxmin]

Wouldn't that be just FANTASTIC!!?

Thank you Jude!

[Jude]

Ok.

I am now compressing to 7z and uploading (dropbox) so it could be a little while (1 GB - compressed from 6gb), get a download manager ready!
Everything is installed to the one server including: redis, database and delayed jobs so this isn't for everyone but it isn't a bad starting point. I haven't tested recovering this file - so if you have problems please share. I am attempting to make an install ISO too where these settings are set-up by script on install but that is probably a month or so away.

This is a Hyper-V install, so you can just import it to your Hyper-V machine and you should be good to go (navigate to the ip address and see canvas running!). If you are using VM/Parallels, you may be able to import the vhd although I haven't tested it and often the network adaptor just dies.

I have included a .html and .markdown file with the changes you'll need to make - basically just your hosts files (one line), some javascript / html for google analytics & webmaster (one ine), the sites file (6 lines), and your email / domain config.yml files.

Because I installed this for our organisation, it may contain traces of our info. Please just remove that info if you find it.

Link should be online in 6-12 hours from now (after upload completes): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/721585/PG-CANVAS.7z

[Laxmin]

Thank you very much Jude!

Downloaded, waiting to be loaded into VMware vsphere.

Or else, am looking into possibilities of getting Hyper-V.

Will post as we test. If this works, it could just be fantastic and save a lot of us, plenty of work!

Cheers

[Jude]

A little out of date but this may help (depending on what version you are running): http://www.petri.co.il/import-vm-hyper-v-to-vsphere.htm#
Actually, once you get the VMware version up and going, export it, zip it up and share it here too. If you need me to store it in my dropbox - I'm happy to.

Cheers

[revskill]

I've built a VirtualBox machine with newest Canvas. Does anyone run Canvas using VirtualBox in production ?

2013/3/27 Jude <jud...@gmail.com>

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[Jude]

If it is working reliably you might as well share it - having a group of virtual machines available would make life much easier for people who just want to try Canvas out.

[smsj...@gmail.com]

I was happy to read you had done this for people, but when I try to download it I'm getting a 404 error with the dropbox link - "We can't find the page you're looking for".

Would it be possible to get a copy of your canvas machine somehow? The turnkey appliance we're using has a weird bug that breaks a course when you enter a description for the syllabus, which I'm hoping is fixed with a newer version. So far I haven't had any success in updating the turnkey appliance.

Thanks very much.

[drj...@gmail.com]

Hi Jude!

Got your Virt machine running on a VMWare after conversion, but I am stuck at the command prompt, asking for login / pass.

The creds given on your readme didn't work.

Can you Please let us know what is the admin username/password for the linux os please?

Thank you!

Jagan

[Jude Rus]

Hi Jagan,

The user should be canvas with password Canv@s2013

Cheers

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[Jagan Mohan]

Thanks Jude, a lot!!

[e.ped...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Do you have updated canvas install that i can download. The link seems to be OFF already.

Thanks.

[Irsandi Hasan]

i've an iso image with canvas installed, remastering with ubuntu, it run latest canvas before 1 august 2013.

[Christopher Bennell]

I have a Canvas Vagrant box, I'd be interested to know how it works for others. 

https://github.com/christopher-b/canvas-vagrant

[Justin Hearn]

Is that somewhere I could download it?

On 07/08/2013, Irsandi Hasan <sa...@seamolec.org> wrote:
> i've an iso image with canvas installed, remastering with ubuntu, it run
> latest canvas before 1 august 2013.
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> On Wednesday, August 7, 2013 4:34:37 PM UTC+7, e.ped...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Do you have updated canvas install that i can download. The link seems to
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>> be OFF already.
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>> Thanks.
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>> On Monday, July 29, 2013 7:45:25 AM UTC+7, Jude wrote:
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>>> Hi Jagan,
>>>

>>> The user should be *canvas *with password *Canv@s2013*

>>>>> https://dl.**dropbox.com/u/721585/PG-**CANVAS.7z<https://dl.dropbox.com/u/721585/PG-CANVAS.7z>

[Jagan Mohan]

Hi CB,

Longshot, but..... 

Can this be used for production?

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[Mahmoud Abdalla]

where is it?

[felip...@gmail.com]

Did anyone have success with it?

I just started to run one, but it seems to hardly be working OOTB - so far, I can't get emails to properly send nor can I even create new users. I can see them through /users/<user id>, but they don't show up at all in my list of users for the account

[Steve Hillman]

My personal opinion is that you can't run the Turnkey Linux Canvas distribution in production. It's great for quickly getting the product up so you can play around with it, see what it's capable of, and decide whether you want to invest time in running Canvas in production. But if you're going to run it in production, you're going to have to get familiar with Ruby, Gems, Rails, Bundler, Rake, and all of that other messiness that makes Ruby-on-Rails apps "interesting".

That said, once you *do* invest that time, it should be relatively easy to keep up with Instructure's updates, *as long as you run what they run*. Instructure puts out code updates (to GitHub) about every 3 weeks, and these contain both bug fixes and new features. If you've got everything set up right, it should just be a matter of doing a "cap deploy" to fetch updated code. At least a couple of people on this list have put their Capistrano deploy scripts up on GitHub which make this process happen

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