How to install moodle LMS V3.4.2 on linuxmint-18.3

To install Moodle LMS V3.4.2 on Linux Mint 18.3

Moodle LMS is the most popular and most used learning management system. The Moodle Learning Management System is a flexible, open source, and free to download learning management solution. It’ s written in php and uses MySQL database. In this tutorial, we will see the installation of Moodle LMS on Linux mint 18.3

Pre-requirements

Install LAMP (Apache, php7.2, MariaDB-server)
In MariaDB (create database, user and give privileges to the user)

FOR PHP INSTALLATION

  apt-get install python-software-properties
  add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
  apt-get update
  apt-get install php7.2-mysql php7.2-curl php7.2-json php7.2-cgi php7.2 libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-mcrypt php7.27.2-xmlrpc php7.2-gd php7.2-mbstring php7.2  php7.2-common  php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-soap  
   php7.2-xml php7.2-intl  php7.2-cli  php7.2-ldap php7.2-zip php7.2-readline php7.2-imap php7.2-tidy php7.2-recode php7.2-sq php7.2-intl

Installing Moodle LMS

Download Moodle LMS package using wget command as follows.

linuxhelp ~ # wget https://download.moodle.org/stable34/moodle-latest-34.zip
--2018-05-16 17:11:31--  https://download.moodle.org/stable34/moodle-latest-34.zip
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: 59733642 (57M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ moodle-latest-34.zip’ 

moodle-latest-34.zip     100%[=================================> ]  56.97M  1.07MB/s    in 62s     

2018-05-16 17:12:39 (948 KB/s) - ‘ moodle-latest-34.zip’  saved [59733642/59733642]

After downloading extract the package as follows.

linuxhelp ~ # ls
moodle-latest-34.zip
linuxhelp ~ # unzip moodle-latest-34.zip 
Archive:  moodle-latest-34.zip
   creating: moodle/
   creating: moodle/report/
   creating: moodle/report/performance/
   creating: moodle/report/performance/classes/
   creating: moodle/report/performance/classes/privacy/
  inflating: moodle/report/performance/classes/privacy/provider.php  
  inflating: moodle/report/performance/locallib.php  
  inflating: moodle/report/performance/settings.php  
.
.
.
   creating: moodle/blocks/calendar_upcoming/db/
  inflating: moodle/blocks/calendar_upcoming/db/upgrade.php  
  inflating: moodle/blocks/calendar_upcoming/db/access.php  
  inflating: moodle/blocks/calendar_upcoming/version.php  
   creating: moodle/blocks/calendar_upcoming/lang/
   creating: moodle/blocks/calendar_upcoming/lang/en/
  inflating: moodle/blocks/calendar_upcoming/lang/en/block_calendar_upcoming.php  
  inflating: moodle/blocks/calendar_upcoming/block_calendar_upcoming.php  
  inflating: moodle/behat.yml.dist  

Now move the extracted directory to the Apache document root directory

linuxhelp ~ # ls
moodle  moodle-latest-34.zip
linuxhelp ~ # mv moodle /var/www/html/

Switch to the directory

linuxhelp ~ # cd /var/www/html/
linuxhelp html # ls

Change ownership and permission of the Directory as follows

linuxhelp html # chown -R www-data:www-data moodle/
linuxhelp html # chmod -R 775 moodle/

Next, we are going to create a virtual host configuration for Moodle LMS

linuxhelp html # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
linuxhelp sites-available # vim moodle.conf

< VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/moodle/
< Directory /var/www/html/moodle/> 
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
< /Directory> 
< /VirtualHost> 

After configuring the host file, we have to enable the moodle.conf as follows

linuxhelp sites-available # a2ensite moodle.conf 

Enabling site moodle.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:

service apache2 reload

And then make an entry in the host file as follows

[root@linuxhelp conf.d]# vim /etc/hosts
< give your ip>    < give your localip> 

Finally, restart the Apache server

[root@linuxhelp conf.d]# systemctl restart httpd

Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL: http://< ipaddress or domain name

Proceed with the configuration setup by choosing the language of installation

Next, you need to confirm the web address directory and also data directory. after confirming click on next to continue

And then you need to choose the database driver as follows. click next to continue further

And then you need to Configure a database settings

After the configuration setup you need to accept the conditions and click on continue to proceed with Moodle LMS

On the next screen, you can verify all the information about the version of Moodle LMS and the release notes


After confirming our server environment meets all the maximum requirements click on continue to proceed further


Next you need to configure the admin user setup as follows

And then you have to configure the front page settings of your website

With this, the method to install Moodle LMS version 3.4.2 on Linux Mint 18.3 Comes to an end.