Moodle Installation on Linux

this is installation of Moodle Learning Management System on Linux

The Ubuntu root password user name: jesse Password : dhammu

The MySQL username and password that Moodle will use

• root
• moodle

database name : moodle

database user : moodle

Database pass: Moodle@127

Connection:                   Localhost via UNIX socket

socket : /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

• The Moodle main admin username and password
  • moodle
  • Moodle@127
• An additional admin Moodle username and password

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install apache2

sudo apt-get install php7.3

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7.3

install additional softwares

sudo apt-get install graphviz aspell ghostscript clamav php7.0-pspell php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-intl php7.0-mysql php7.0-xml php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-ldap php7.0-zip php7.0-soap php7.0-mbstring

check php version with

php -v

install mysql server

sudo apt install mysql-server

mysql_secure_installation to set the password and give appropriate permissions

in case your myswl server password is not set you can use the folloing command to do so

mysqladmin -u root password

now install phpmyadmin utility

sudo apt install phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-gettext

of if you want a dedicated program on your server you can also install

mysql workbench utility by

sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench

sudo service apache2 restart

now lets create a file to check the php version and all other settings in one play

we create phpinfo.php file in the web root with folloing code in it.

<?php

// Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL

phpinfo();

?>

phpinfo page

now download the moodle code in www directory

and extract it there

and also create moodledata folder the set appropriate permission as follows

sudo mkdir /var/moodledata

sudo chown -R www-data /var/moodledata

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/moodledata

sudo chmod -R 0755 /var/www/html/moodle

after doing this go to the browser and open the following url

http://localhost/moodle/install.php

open my sql command prompt and execute folling command to create the database

CREATE DATABASE moodle DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;