Wiki preparation of Joomdle with Moodle 2.0+ confusing

www.joomdle.com/wiki/Preparing_Moodle_20

I'm lost after the "Create a specific user" section. I think there is something missing from the wiki or I'm just so unfamiliar with Moodle that I don't get it.

I'm running Moodle 2.0.2 and after searching, I found the "Check permissions" option that leads me to the something similar to the screenshot in your "Check user capability" wiki instructions.

Once I click the button to "Show this user's permissions" I don't see the option to enable the XML-RPC protocol.

The Moodle configuration screens vary a little from Moodle 2.0 to 2.0.2 but are still pretty close. You say you cannot find the option to enable XML-RPC. At this point here, you should only be granting access to the service called XML-RPC. This service should have been installed when installing Moodle (basically a check list). I believe, it's been a while since I tried installing on a system without XML-RPC, that when you install Moodle one of the green check boxes will tell you if XML-RPC is loaded in PHP or not. So the first thing I would check is to ensure you have XML-RPC installed and enabled through PHP and then does Moodle know about it. You can check your php-info settings for this either through Joomla (if version 1.5) or Moodle.

XML-RPC is installed.

I think I have everything installed now. Just had to bounce around the instructions a bit.

I agree... Very confusing. I have set everything up according to whatever I can piece together and could not get the "Received empty response from Moodle " to go away on a remote install of Moodle 1.9. So I downloaded 2.0 on the physical server wasted my time updating PHP configuring etc only to get the same result .. everything is green except the "Joomdle Web Service" in the system check.. All I can find for a solution is a "firewall setting". Well that's ridiculous! no port info no service info nothing.. just a firewall setting. What firewall setting? I figured I overcame that putting the newly installed moodle on the same server. This is insanity! It looks like I am not the only one.. Please help!

@mk1200 Glad to hear you go it going. Can you to let us know what you found incorrect and/or confusing in the wiki. If you type up the differences here we can update the wiki to help others.

I'm not familiar with Moodle, which caused 50% of my problem. Now that it's installed I'm not exactly sure where the inconsistencies are. I had 3 wikis open at the same time and kept bouncing between them. I've written manuals before, so my advice would be to follow along with a fresh install of 2.0.2 as if you knew nothing.

Thanks for the feedback. What you have suggested is pretty much what we tried to do. Unfortunately, in Moodle, it is not a sequential installation as there are little bits here and there that must be done. That said, one more run through of the installation checking against the wiki can't hurt.