How to install Moodle 3.5 on Ubuntu 18.04
To install Moodle 3.5 on Ubuntu 18.04
Moodle is an open-source Learning Management System (LMS) and it has become one of the most popular LMSs among educators around the world as a tool for creating single robust, secure and integrated system that can help you create personalized learning environments and online courses as a dynamic website.In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Moodle on Ubuntu 18.04.
Prerequisites
To install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, php7)
In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user )
Php installation with required following modules
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
apt-get update
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xmlrpc
php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0 php7.0-common php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-soap php7.0-xml php7.0-intl php7.0-cli php7.0-ldap
php7.0-zip php7.0-readline php7.0-imap php7.0-tidy php7.0-recode php7.0-sq php7.0-intl
Installation
Download a Moodle package using the following URL
root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable35/moodle-latest-35.tgz
--2018-06-05 10:24:17-- https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable35/moodle-latest-35.tgz
Resolving download.moodle.org (download.moodle.org)... 104.20.218.25, 104.20.219.25, 2400:cb00:2048:1::6814:da19, ...
Connecting to download.moodle.org (download.moodle.org)|104.20.218.25|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 46289797 (44M) [application/g-zip]
Saving to: ‘;moodle-latest-35.tgz’;
moodle-latest-35.tgz 100%[==============================>] 44.14M 841KB/s in 42s
2018-06-05 10:25:00 (1.04 MB/s) - ‘;moodle-latest-35.tgz’; saved [46289797/46289797]
After Downloading extract the downloaded package
root@linuxhelp1:~# tar -zxvf moodle-latest-35.tgz
moodle/
moodle/report/
moodle/report/performance/
moodle/report/performance/classes/
moodle/report/performance/classes/privacy/
.
.
moodle/blocks/calendar_upcoming/version.php
moodle/blocks/calendar_upcoming/lang/
moodle/blocks/calendar_upcoming/lang/en/
moodle/blocks/calendar_upcoming/lang/en/block_calendar_upcoming.php
moodle/blocks/calendar_upcoming/block_calendar_upcoming.php
moodle/behat.yml.dist
Move the extracted file into the HTML directory
root@linuxhelp1:~# mv moodle /var/www/
Navigate to the apache document root directory
root@linuxhelp1:~# cd /var/www/
Change ownership and permission of the as Moodle follows
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chown -R www-data.www-data moodle
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chmod -R 775 moodle
Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the Moodle
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/moodle.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/moodle/
<Directory /var/www/moodle/>
AllowOverride All
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Enable site access
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2ensite moodle.conf
Enabling site moodle.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2
Disable default access
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2dissite 000-default.conf
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2
Enable rewrite module
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl restart apache2
Restart the apache service to make the changes effect
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# systemctl restart apache2
Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL: http://<ipaddress or domain name
Here we have to choose the language to use the Moodle CMS
Choose the installation paths
Create a new directory and set permission and ownership
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# mkdir moodledata
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chown -R www-data.www-data moodledata
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chmod -R 775 moodledata
Restart the apache service to make the changes effect
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# systemctl restart apache2
Choose the Database as shown below
Configure the Database setup as follows
Choose the installation as shown below
Add the following lines into config-> my.ini (xampp server) or open my.cnf (Apache server)
root@www:~# vim /etc/mysql/mariadb.cnf
[..]
[client]
default-character-set = utf8mb4
[mysqld]
innodb_file_format = Barracuda
innodb_file_per_table = 1
innodb_large_prefix
character-set-server = utf8mb4
collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci
skip-character-set-client-handshake
[mysql]
default-character-set = utf8mb4
[..]
Restart the Mysql service to make the changes effect
root@www:~# systemctl restart mariadb
Verify the compatibility for installing Moodle as shown below
After the configuration, you will see the following page as shown below
Configure the Admin user setup
Configure the Site information as follows
After the Successful login, you will see the Admin dashboard of Moodle as shown below
You will see the Homepage of Moodle as shown below
With this, the method to install Moodle 3.5 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.