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Mahara is an open-source e-portfolio for education; An eportfolio is a type of web application that allows users to record and share evidence of lifelong learning.

For more information about Mahara and e-portfolios, see the Mahara user manual's introduction chapter:

SUPPORT

The best ways of obtaining support are:

INSTALLATION

For detailed installation instructions, see the installation page on our wiki:

The basic installation instructions are:

  1. Create a Postgres or MySQL database for Mahara.
  2. Copy the Mahara files under "htdocs" into your web root.
  3. Create a Mahara "dataroot" directory outside of your web root.
  4. Copy htdocs/config-dist.php to config.php.
  5. Edit config.php with the correct details for your installation.

UPGRADING

Mahara 15.10 supports direct upgrades from previous Mahara versions 1.1.0 and later. To upgrade an existing Mahara installation, follow the instructions here:

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Here are the system requirements needed to run Mahara 15.10.

OS

Mahara is only officially supported on Debian (5.0/"Lenny" or later) and Ubuntu (10.04/"Lucid Lynx" or later), however it will probably run in any OS with a suitable web server.

Web Server

Mahara is only officially supported on Apache 2 or later, although it will probably run in any web server with the proper PHP extensions.

Database

Mahara requires either Postgres or MYSQL. It would require extensive modification to support other databases.

  • Postgres 8.3 or later
  • MySQL 5.1 or later (or MariaDB equivalent)

PHP

Mahara requires PHP version 5.3 or later. The "magic_quotes" and "register_globals" settings should be turned off (which is the default on modern PHP installations).

The following PHP extensions are also required:

  • curl
  • gd (including Freetype support)
  • json
  • ldap
  • libxml
  • mbstring
  • mcrypt
  • mime_magic; or fileinfo
  • pgsql; or mysqli; or mysql
  • session
  • SimpleXML
  • bz2 (optional)
  • imagick (optional)
  • openssl and xmlrpc (optional; for networking support)
  • zlib (optional)
  • adodb (optional; improves performance)
  • enchant or pspell (optional; for TinyMCE spellcheck button)

Web Browser

Mahara should be accessible in any modern web browser with Javascript support. However, it is only actively tested in the most recent versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera; and the last three versions of IE. For Mahara 15.10, these versions are:

  • Firefox - 24.0
  • Chrome - 34.0
  • Safari - 6.0
  • Opera - 17.0
  • IE - 9, 10, 11

TRANSLATIONS

Mahara has been translated into many lanugages. You can get language packs from:

MOODLE

Documentation on integrating Mahara with Moodle can be found in the 3.1MB PDF here:


Copyright notice

Copyright (C) 2006-2015 Catalyst IT and others; see: https://wiki.mahara.org/wiki/Contributors

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 or later of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Additional permission under GNU GPL version 3 section 7:

If you modify this program, or any covered work, by linking or combining it with the OpenSSL project's OpenSSL library (or a modified version of that library), containing parts covered by the terms of the OpenSSL or SSLeay licenses, the Mahara copyright holders grant you additional permission to convey the resulting work. Corresponding Source for a non-source form of such a combination shall include the source code for the parts of OpenSSL used as well as that of the covered work.

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