So, I wanted an complete secure Moodle E-learning environment.. After completing the installation fully non-secure (HTTP) , I fiddled with al the configuration settings.. Seems there is no immediate logical / direct way for getting this done..

For reference, getting Moodle  on Nginx working completely secure (full SLL)

1) config.php –> change $CFG->wwwroot   = ‘https://yourmoodleurl’;
2) Disable HTTPS login under Administration –> Security –> HTTP
3) config.php –> add  $CFG->sslproxy=true;

And ofcourse change your nginx server/site configuration

Yes, you can restrict the elements (input, styles, formats) to the users who are using the (F) CKEditor. In my case I used CKEditor for SharePoint 2010. Here’s some quick tips / howto’s regarding restriction with CKEditor:

#Delete those nasty plugins, especially the one defining the current context
config.removePlugins = ‘elementspath’;

#Force the Language
config.defaultLanguage = ‘nl’;

#Disable the option to collapse the editor, users only get lost
config.toolbarCanCollapse = false ;

#Dis or enable the resizing of the editor
config.resize_enabled = true;

#Auto Start SCAYT Spellchecker
config.scayt_autoStartup = true;

#Force spellcheck language
config.scayt_sLang = ‘nl_NL’;

#Only allow the tags P and H2 to be used
config.format_tags = ‘p;h2′;

# Remove any other Format
config.removeFormatTags = ‘b,big,code,del,dfn,em,font,i,ins,kbd’;

#Remove advanced dialogs
config.removeDialogTabs = ‘link:advanced’;

#Restrict special characters
config.specialChars =['!','"','%','&',"'",'(',')','*','+','-','.','/',':',';','','=','','?','@','^','_','`','{','|','}','~',"€", "‘", "’", "“", "”", "–", "—","©","®","À", "Á", "Â", "Ä", "È", "É", "Ê", "Ë", "Ì", "Í", "Ï","Ò", "Ó", "Ô", "Õ", "Ö",  "Ù", "Ú", "Û", "Ü","à", "á", "â", "ä", "è", "é", "ê", "ë", "ì", "í", "ï", "ò", "ó", "ô", "õ", "ö", "÷", "ù", "ú", "û", "ü", "‚", "‛", "„", "™"];

If you want (F) CKeditor , I used in this case CKEditor for SharePoint 2010,  to make the (hyper) links automatically open in a new window (_blank), then you can achieve this by following the next steps:

1. Open, serverside, the location where CK Editor is installed
For CKeditor for SharePoint 2010 this is <<DRIVE>>:\<<PROGRAM FILES FOLDER>>\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\ckeditor\plugins\
2. Open the plugins/link/dialogs folder and edit the links.js file.
3. Find the default setting for the field ‘Target’ , a.k.a.
{type:’select’,id:’linkTargetType’,label:D.target,’default’:'notset’,style:’width : ……
4. Change the code to the desired targettype , in this case _blank
{type:’select’,id:’linkTargetType’,label:D.target,’default’:'_blank’,style:’width : ……
5. Save and Done!

And there you have it, all links will now be opened automatically in a new window.

Ofcourse, this doesn’t work for al links (pasted links for example). An plugin handling links in general could resolve your issue there, if this is the case.