Joomdle Installation

I am new to Moodle but well versed in Joomla + Hikashop. My experience so far with Moodle is that the PayPal payment plugin is somewhat flawed. An error is reported to the Admin during payment where no error exists and, upon expiry of the registration peiod (an option in the PayPal plugin) users cannot re-register for the course.

Further limitations are the ability to create the sort of information pages you'd expect in a CMS and a somewhat crude menu system.

Today I came across Joomdle and, should it meet the requirements, would seem an ideal solution.

First: installation. I cannot find any documentation that says where Moodle and Joomla are to be installed. Same server but different folders? Or is Joomla in www-root and Moodle in a subfolder? Or the other way round?
Do Moodle and Joomla have to be on the same server? Or the same domain? (I ask because this tutorial terrybritton.com/amazon-and-godaddy-mood...mla-via-joomdle-878/ places Joomla in the root and Moodle in a subfolder /moodle on the same server/domain).

I ask because I have a fully functioning Joomla "educational" site that could, with only small changes, accommodate Hikashop products for Moodle paid courses.

I already know how to configure and adapt Hikashop to my needs. Can Hikashop products be set for fixed period Moodle enrolments? Does anyone know if re-enrolment works / does not work?

After these questions I am more than happy to install Joomdle and explore the possibilities. If anyone can help (even partially) with any of the questions, I'd be very grateful indeed.

Regards,
Ric

I can part answer my own questions having undertaken a little experimentation.

First: The documentation for preparation and installation is very good. It covers quite comprehensively all the steps needed and the order in which they should be undertaken. The only thing I missed was "Add Functions to Service" because I hadn't at that point installed Joomdle.

After completing the installation the health check showed a somewhat undefined "Joomdle Web services error - 404 : Unknown error" error. This prompted me to remember to add the functions to service in Moodle.

Once that was done, the health check completed fine and I was able to see courses within a Joomla Wrapper by adding the appropriate menu item.

My test configuration is that Moodle and Joomla each exist within their own folder below www-root. Since the link to each during setup is a URL I don't think it matters which folders are chosen: Joomdle will still work. However, since the main user interface is Joomla and Moodle courses are going to be accessed from Joomla rather than directly through Moodle it would make sense to have Moodle as a subdirectory of the Joomla installation.

I now have the luxury of a test site preconfigured for Moodle and Joomla with identical templates / themes (I simply cloned existing sites and databases so that live sites remain unaffected). Joomla is already setup with Hikashop to use PayPal sandbox. I shall spend some time experimenting to see what is possible.

If, in the meantime, anyone has insights into how I can create courses of different duration (the basis on which courses will be sold) and whether Hikashop can feed through the start and end dates I'd appreciate hearing from you.

Regards,
Ric

Pretty much everything works apart from the last step: enrolment in Moodle. There are a few other glitches too that don't seem quite right and I shall raise a separate support request for that.

Ric