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How To Install Moodle On Ubuntu 14

This document provides instructions for installing and configuring Moodle, an open-source learning management system, on Ubuntu 14.04. It describes downloading and installing prerequisites like Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Moodle is then downloaded from Git and its files are copied to the web server. The database is initialized with a Moodle database and user. Finally, the Moodle installation wizard is completed by configuring database connection details and creating an administrator user account.

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How To Install Moodle On Ubuntu 14

This document provides instructions for installing and configuring Moodle, an open-source learning management system, on Ubuntu 14.04. It describes downloading and installing prerequisites like Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Moodle is then downloaded from Git and its files are copied to the web server. The database is initialized with a Moodle database and user. Finally, the Moodle installation wizard is completed by configuring database connection details and creating an administrator user account.

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How to install Moodle on Ubuntu 14.

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Version 1.0
Author: Srijan Kishore <s [dot] kishore [at] ispconfig [dot] org>
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Last edited 24/Sep/2014
This document describes how to install and configure Moodle on Ubuntu 14.04. Moodle (acronym
for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) (stylised in lower-case as moodle) is a
free software e-learning platform, also known as a Learning Management System, or Virtual
Learning Environment (VLE). As of June 2013 it had a user base of 83,008 registered and verified
sites, serving 70,696,570 users in 7.5+ million courses with 1.2+ million teachers. Equipped with a
horde of smart features such as virtual quizzes, assignment submission, wiki, grading, IM services,
and online discussion boards, Moodle enables a seamless online learning experience for end-users.
Also, by virtue of being a modular software, it is capable of enhanced functionality through
customized plugins.
1 Preliminary Note

This tutorial is based on Ubuntu 14.04 server, so you should set up a basic Ubuntu 14.04 server
installation before you continue with this tutorial. The system should have a static IP address. I
use 192.168.0.100 as my IP address in this tutorial andserver1.example.com as the
hostname.
2 Install Apache/MySQL/PHP

We require Apache, MySQL and PHP before Moodle installation. I will be using root credentials, if
you are doing installation with any other user just prefix sudo before all commands:

apt-get -y install apache2 mysql-client mysql-server php5

You will be asked to provide a password for the MySQL root user - this password is valid for the
user root@localhost as well [email protected], so we don't have to specify a
MySQL root password manually later on:
New password for the MySQL "root" user: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
Repeat password for the MySQL "root" user: <-- yourrootsqlpassword

Moodle require some more packages we will install them as follows:

apt-get -y install graphviz aspell php5-pspell php5-curl php5-gd php5-intl php5-mysql


php5-xmlrpc php5-ldap git-core

I will be using git utility for downloading Moodle so I have installed git-core.
3 Download Moodle

Now we will download Moodle as follows:


cd /opt
git clone git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git
cd moodle
git branch -a
git branch --track MOODLE_27_STABLE origin/MOODLE_27_STABLE
git checkout MOODLE_27_STABLE

Next we need to copy the Moodle content to the /var/www/html as:

cp -R /opt/moodle /var/www/html/
mkdir /var/moodledata
chown -R www-data /var/moodledata
chown -R www-data /var/www/html/moodle
chmod -R 777 /var/moodledata
chmod -R 0755 /var/www/html/moodle

We need to change the default storage engine to innodb:

nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Give values at the end of the file as:

[...]
#Basic settings for moodle
default-storage-engine = innodb

4 Database initialization

We need a database for Moodle, I will create the database for the Moodle as follows:

mysql -u root -p

Here we are adding database=moodledb


user=moodleuser and password=moodlepassword:

CREATE DATABASE moodledb DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;


GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES,DROP,INDEX,ALTER ON
moodledb.* TO moodleuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'moodlepassword';

Further moving ahead:


FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

Restart services

service apache2 restart


service mysql restart

3 Web installation of Moodle

Now we will proceed with the Moodle web-installation. Open a browser of your choice and open the
linkhttp:192.168.0.100/moodle/install.php
Select your language and press Next:

Change the value of Data directory to /var/moodledata and press Next:

Press Next:
Give the values at the time of creation of the database, in my case it was as follows:
Database host : localhost
Database name : moodledb
Database user : moodleuser
Database password : moodlepassword
table prefix : mdl_ (or any valaue of your choice)
Database port : 3306
Unix socket : It will remain blank.
After giving the values press Next:

Press Continue:
Press Continue:

Press Continue:
Now create an admin user for Moodle, you can use any value as per your choice. In my case I am
using:
Username : admin
New password : Howtoforge@1
First name : Srijan
Surname : Kishore
EMail : [email protected]

All other field I will be using its default value, ofcourse you can change it later.

Press Update profile:


Give any name as per your choice, I am using a test name as:
Full site name : Test-moodle
Short name for site : test
Self registration : Disable
After giving the values press Save changes:

Now go to Site Administration-->Server-->System Paths and define the paths as follows:


Path to du : /usr/bin/du
Path to aspell : /usr/bin/aspell
Path to dot : /usr/bin/dot
Press Save Changes.
Now we are done with the installation part of Moodle, We can access the Moodle page
at http://192.168.0100/moodle/login/index.php as follows:
Your credentials will be Username=admin and Password=Howtoforge@1.
Next page will be the default welcome page.

Now we can add courses and use Moodle as per our requirement. Congratulations! You now we
have a fully functional Moodle instance on our Ubuntu 14.04 :)

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