Forum Problems Installing LAMS: Re: LAMS 2.0 glitches

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Faisal,

I believe you might be compiling the source from the tarball, is that right?

If so, then you are using LAMS v2.0 beta as it was release at the beginning of July. Since then, we have been working on it everyday and all the latest improvements are on CVS (which is some sort of file versioning system that makes distributed development easier).

The translators server uses the latest LAMS code directly from CVS. If you are familiar with CVS checkouts, just follow the instructions and you should be able to get the exact same version as the translators site.

If you aren't really familiar with CVS, let us know and we'll help you out

> I also couldn't find any settings to change the language
> of the installation, where is that done?

You should be able to modify your lams.xml file and select the language you want the server to run on:

        <DictionaryDates>
               <Dictionary>
                        <language>en_AU</language>
                       <createDate>2006-01-02</createDate>
               </Dictionary>
       </DictionaryDates>

Replace the en_AU for ar_JO if you want Arabic (Jordan) or es_ES for Spanish (Spain), etc.. and restart LAMS and it should start in that language.

It's also worth mentioning, that although you have set your site language to be Arabic, you can set users to have another default language. So even if your site is running in Arabic, you can set up students or teachers to use a different language. So when they login, although they will see the login page in Arabic, they will see all the pages in the system in Spanish.

This is usuful when you have language departments where they want their students only to experience the interface in a particular language.

Hope that helps,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione