Features:

• Interactive GUI

The interface is very attractive, responsive, and easy to use for both mobile and desktop users.

• Personalized Dashboard.

Here, you can navigate, current, and old curriculums.

• Progress reports.

You can keep track of the curriculum, based on the course and student level.

• File management.

A very convenient interface connected with Onedrive,  Dropbox, or any other famous cloud storage service.

• Calendar and Notifications

A teacher can keep track of course deadlines, scheduled programs.  Forum and personalized messages can be shared.

Installation:

Here, we will see how to set moodle with Ubuntu 20.04.

Update OS

$ sudo apt-get update

Install PHP/MySql/PHP

Here, we would require PHP7, add the repo.

$  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Update System

$ sudo apt-get update

Get required packages.

  $ apt install apache2 mysql-client mysql-server php libapache2-mod-php

Setup root password

$ sudo mysql_secure_installation

Install other required tools.

$ sudo apt install graphviz aspell ghostscript clamav php7.4-pspell php7.4-curl php7.4-gd php7.4-intl php7.4-mysql php7.4-xml php7.4-xmlrpc php7.4-ldap php7.4-zip php7.4-soap php7.4-mbstring

Install git

$ sudo apt-get install git

Download Moodle package, change to /opt directory.

$ sudo git clone git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git

Move local repo to /var/www/html

Create new directory ‘moodledata’ in /var/

$ sudo mv /opt/moodle /var/www/html/moodle

$ sudo mkdir /var/moodledata 

Define required set of permissions.

$ sudo chown -R www-data /var/moodledata/
$ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/moodledata/
$ sudo chown www-data /var/moodledata
$ chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/moodledata

Moodle database user for MySQL required.

CREATE DATABASE moodle;

create user 'moodleuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'P@ssw0rd';

GRANT ALL ON moodle.* TO 'moodleuser'@'localhost';

Once all of the settings are done, restart apache service.

Open browser and type IP_Addr/moodle. In my scenario IP address is 172.16.16.81

Click next, change directory to /var/moodledata

Choose default Database type, provide credentials.

Database name: localhost

Database user: moodleuser

Database Password: P@ssw0rd

Copy all content to /var/www/html/moodle/config.php, you require to create that file.

$ vim /var/www/html/moodle/config.php

<?php  // Moodle configuration file
 unset($CFG);
 global $CFG;
 $CFG = new stdClass();
 $CFG->dbtype    = 'mysqli';
 $CFG->dblibrary = 'native';
 $CFG->dbhost    = 'localhost';
 $CFG->dbname    = 'moodle';
 $CFG->dbuser    = 'moodleuser';
 $CFG->dbpass    = 'P@ssw0rd';
 $CFG->prefix    = 'mdl_';
 $CFG->dboptions = array (
   'dbpersist' => 0,
   'dbport' => '',
   'dbsocket' => '',
   'dbcollation' => 'utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci',
 );
 $CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://172.16.16.81/moodle';
 $CFG->dataroot  = '/var/moodledata';
 $CFG->admin     = 'admin';
 $CFG->directorypermissions = 0777;
 require_once(DIR . '/lib/setup.php');
 // There is no php closing tag in this file,
 // it is intentional because it prevents trailing whitespace problems!
 ~

Accept conditions and move next.

Here, Moodle will go through, whether all required application are installed proper or not.

Get installation steps complete.

Assign credentials to admin, assign email id.

Move to next screen.

Save all changes and move next.

Save changes and finish setup, congratulations!! you have working Moodle EMS system ready to use.

Conclusion

Here, the config.php file may not be available as default. Make sure to create and save that file. Sometimes web server may show errors, restart server and apache service to get rid of this.

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Moodle is a learning management system (LMS). It is quite popular in the world and is the main online learning tool for many educational institutions. It is written in PHP and supports several web servers such as Apache and Ngnix.

One of its main advantages is that it is open source and has a very active user and developer community that allows you to keep track of the development and its news.

So, let’s install Moodle on CentOS 7.

0. Prerequisites

Before starting you should do a few things so that there are no problems during the installation. First, install some necessary packages:

:~# yum install nano wget yum-utils

Next, disable SELinux:

:~# nano /etc/selinux/config

And change SELinux to disable:

Finally, reboot the system.

1. Upgrade the system

First, you need to update the system. It is really simple to do and with this you guarantee to have the system with the security patches installed and working.

:~$ su
:~# yum update

Now, you can go on.

2. Install Apache Web server

As I said before, Moodle is compatible with several web servers, however, I will use Apache’s httpd. It’s a pretty well known server and it’s really easy to use.

To install it run this command.

:~# yum install httpd

Now, enable and start the service.

:~# systemctl enable httpd
:~# systemctl start httpd

Add the rule for the firewall.

:~# firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-service=http

And that’s all for Apache.

2. Install PHP

PHP is a programming language for web applications. Moodle is written in this fantastic language so you have to install it.

We only have one detail, the version that comes in the official CentOS 7 repositories is very old and Moodle requires something newer. So I will use an external repository to install PHP 7.1.

:~# yum install epel-release
:~# rpm -Uhv https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
:~# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php71

Then, install PHP 7.1

:~# yum install php php-common php-intl php-zip php-soap php-xmlrpc php-opcache php-mbstring php-gd php-curl php-mysql php-xml

So, restart Apache.

:~# systemctl restart httpd

PHP is correctly installed.

3. Install and configure MariaDB

The next step is to install and configure MariaDB. Moodle requires a database manager. In this case I will use MariaDB, an open source and easy to install MySQL fork.

:~# yum install mariadb mariadb-server

Now, you need to enable and start the service.

:~# systemctl enable mariadb
:~# systemctl start mariadb

Then, it is necessary to define the root password for MariaDB. This is easy to do thanks to the mysql_secure_installation script.

:~# mysql_secure_installation

In this section, you will be asked other questions concerning the configuration of MariaDB. These are the questions and so I have answered. So, you can do it as you wish. They are basic configurations.

Set root password? [Y/n] Y
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] N
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y

So, the next step is to create the Moodle database.

:~# mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE moodledb;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON moodledb.* TO 'moodleuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'moodlepss';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;

Finally, you need to edit the file /etc/my.cnf.d/server.cnf and add the following.

:~# yum install nano
:~# nano /etc/my.cnf.d/server.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

For these changes to take effect, restart MariaDB.

:~# systemctl restart mariadb

4.- Install Moodle

It’s finally time to install Moodle. First, you have to download it.

:~# cd /tmp/
:~# wget https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable35/moodle-latest-35.tgz -O moodle-latest.tgz

Then, decompress it.

:~# tar -xvzf moodle-latest.tgz

Next, move the created folder to /var/www/html.

:~# mv moodle /var/www/html/

Now it is necessary to change the owner of the folder. This to avoid permission problems.

:~# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/

5. Create a virtual host for Moodle

You need to create a virtual host for Moodle. It’s simple. Run this command and add the following.

:~# nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/moodle.conf

Then, restart Apache.

:~# systemctl restart httpd

6. Complete the Moodle installation from CLI

Now is the time to complete the installation from CLI. To do this, run:

 :~# /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/moodle/admin/cli/install.php

During the execution of the script, you will first be asked for the language for the installation. The rest are database parameters and paths. See the images for reference.

Note: It is not mysqli. It is mariadb option on database driver.

You have also to set the admin account.

Finally, you will see this.

If you make a mistake, you can continue. In the end, you delete the /var/www/html/moodle/config.php file and run the installer again.

Next, give permission to the config file.

:~# chmod o+r /var/www/html/moodle/config.php

And restart apache.

:~# systemctl restart httpd

Now, go to your moodle directory on your web browser.

Next, log in. Go to http://your-domain/login.

And finally, you will see this.

And that’s it.

Conclusion

Now that you know how to install Moodle you can start creating your own learning platforms.

One piece of advice I give you is to read through each step carefully.

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