Setting up moodle on Ubuntu 16.04

Install aptitude package manager.

sudo apt-get install aptitude

Install Apache2

sudo aptitude install apache2

Install mysql

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Secure Mysql installation

mysql_secure_installation

Install PHP

sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-mcrypt php-mysql php-pear php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-curl php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-soap php-intl

Install Pear Modules

sudo pear install MDB2-2.5.0b5

sudo pear install “channel://pear.php.net/MDB2_Driver_mysqli-1.5.0b4″

#Note that pear/mdb2#mysql is no longer available in PHP 7.0 since the mysql extension was removed in this version

sudo pear install “channel://pear.php.net/LiveUser-0.16.14″

sudo pear install HTML_Template_it

Install PIP (Python’s pear equivalent)

sudo apt-get install python-pip

sudo apt-get install unzip

sudo apt-get install elinks (text browser, to download moodle)

Install SSL:

sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/ssl/private/apache-selfsigned.key -out /etc/ssl/certs/apache-selfsigned.crt/etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf

Add/Edit the following lines:

ServerAdmin your_email@example.com
ServerName server_domain_or_IP
SSLCertificateFile      /etc/ssl/certs/apache-selfsigned.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/apache-selfsigned.key

Enable SSL and SSL VirtualHost:

sudo a2ensite default-ssl
sudo a2enmod ssl

Configuration test:

sudo apache2ctl configtest

Restart apache2 to enable SSL settings:

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Mysql commands:

create database moodle;

create user ‘webadmin’@’%’ identified by ‘{some password}’;

grant all on moodle.* to ‘webadmin’@’%’;

Download Moodle:

cd  /tmp/

elinks https://download.moodle.org/download.php/stable33/moodle-latest-33.tgz

navigate to and click on the download now link

tar xfz moodle-latest-33.tgz

Note:: Change moodle-latest-33.tgz to the correct file name, given on the web page -> https://download.moodle.org/releases/latest/

Move all moodle files to the wwwroot:sudo mv moodle/* /var/www/html/

sudo nano config.php

Set host and database configuration to match those set above.