How to Install Moodle on a LAMP Server
Moodle, the free and open source learning platform, can be used to create private websites for dynamic online courses. Moodle can be used in the academic as well as corporate world for e-learning projects. So let’s find out how to install it.
M oodle is an open source learning management system (LMS) that can be used for academic as well as administrative tasks. It was founded by Martin Dougiamas and is an acronym for Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment. This LMS acts as a powerful teaching-learning tool as it comes bundled with many features that can be used by teachers, students or administrative staff. In this article, we explore how to install Moodle on a LAMP server.
The operating system used here is Linux Mint 17.1 ‘Rebecca’. The prerequisites for Moodle version 2.8 (the latest) are: PHP 5.4.4 My SQL 5.5.31 Mozilla Firefox 25.0 Apache 2, to host the site The following steps will help you install Moodle on your server in no time. 1. Download a stable version of Moodle from https://
download. moodle .org/releases /latest. 2. Extract the directory in the document root of the server
(e.g., /var/www/html/moodle). 3. Also create an empty directory with the name ‘moodledata’ in the directory, one level above the document root (e.g., /var/www/moodledata). 4. Set the permissions of Moodle and ‘moodledata’ as follows: chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/moodle chmod -R 777 /var/www/moodledata
The permissions are set to 777 so that the installation script can read/write contents from and to the files in the directories. 5. Create an empty directory using phpMyAdmin or the mySQL console. To use phpMyAdmin, type localhost/ phpmyadmin in the browser’s address bar. Log on, and select the Databases tab. Enter the name of the database and click on the Create button. 6. In a new tab in the browser, type localhost/moodle to begin
the installation process. 7. Select the language and click on Next. The default language
is English.