CentOS Server - Moodle Moodle Checklist Moodle Checklist Moodle Checklist √ To Do Prerequisite 1 PHP settings 2 PHP extensions 3 MySQL settings 4 MySQL database 5 Folder structure 6 Virtual host file 7 SSL Certificate Installation 8 Installing Moodle 9 Adding plugins Post Installation 10 Cron (automatic tasks) setup Prerequisite PHP Settings Settings Check and set these settings in your php.ini memory_limit ============ memory_limit = 128M session.save_handler ==================== session.save_handler = files file_uploads ============ file_uploads = On session.auto_start ================== session.auto_start = 0 post_max_size and upload_max_filesize ===================================== post_max_size = 500M upload_max_filesize = 500M Restart Server Restart the web server after setting the above settingssystemctl restart httpd.service PHP Extensions PHP Extensions Install the below list of PHP extensions with the command below (a lot of these extensions are installed by default when installing PHP).  See Install PHP on how to install PHP. The iconv extension The mbstring extension The curl extension The openssl extension The tokenizer extension The xmlrpc extension The soap extension The ctype extension The zip extension The gd extension The simplexml extension The spl extension The pcre extension The dom extension The xml extension The intl extension The json extension yum install php-mbstring curl php-xmlrpc php-soap php-gd php-xml php-intl php-jsonMySQL Settings MySQL settings Adding the configuration settings Open my.cnf filevi /etc/my.cnf Add the below config settings to the end of the file [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 daemon Restart the MySQL daemon after adding the configuration changes systemctl restart mysqldMySQL Database Setting up the MySQL Database Log into MySQL as root, providing the password at the promptmysql -u root -p Create the database with the command belowCREATE DATABASE moodle DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci; Create a user/password combination with appropriate permissions for the database (replace moodle, moodleuser and yourpassword with an appropriate database name, username and password)GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES,DROP,INDEX,ALTER ON moodle.* TO 'moodleuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword'; Flush the privilegesflush privileges; Exit the databaseexit; Folder Structure Creating a Moodle Folder Structure Moodle Data Folder Navigate to /var/wwwcd /var/www Create Moodle datafolder, replacing "foldername" with an appropriate namemkdir moodledata-foldername Change the owner of the folderchown -R apache:apache moodledata-foldername Moodle Installation Folder Navigate to /var/wwwcd /var/www Create Moodle datafolder, replacing "foldername" with an appropriate namemkdir foldername Virtual Host File Moodle Virtual Host File Create a virtual host configuration file for Moodle, like the example below (replacing subdomain.domain.com with an appropriate name).  For more information on how to do this, see Apache Virtual Hosts ServerName subdomain.domain.com Redirect permanent / https://subdomain.domain.com ServerName subdomain.domain.com DocumentRoot "/var/www/subdomain.domain.com" Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files. AllowOverride All # Controls who can get stuff from this server file Order allow,deny Allow from all ServerEnvironment apache apache SSL Certificate Obtaining a Certificate Run the command below (replacing example.com with the actual domain details)certbot --apache -d example.com Follow the prompts of the application At the option, "Please choose whether or not to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS, removing HTTP access," choose 1.  Https redirection is configured in the domains conf file Please choose whether or not to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS, removing HTTP access. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1: No redirect - Make no further changes to the webserver configuration. 2: Redirect - Make all requests redirect to secure HTTPS access. Choose this for new sites, or if you're confident your site works on HTTPS. You can undo this change by editing your web server's configuration. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Select the appropriate number [1-2] then [enter] (press 'c' to cancel):1 For more information, see Let's Encrypt CertificatesInstallation Installing Moodle Remember to configure DNS in Xneelo console if required Downloading Moodle Go on this page and select the installation which suits your needs Navigate to /tmp folder and download the Moodle package with wget (replacing https://link-to-moodle-package.com with the appropriate download link for Moodle)cd /tmpwget https://link-to-moodle-package.com Untar the downloaded package (replacing moodle-package.tar.gz with the appropriate name of the downloaded package)tar -zxfv moodle-package.tar.gz Move the uncompressed Moodle folder to /var/www (replacing moodle-folder with the name of the uncompressed folder)mv moodle-folder /var/www Change the owner of the folder and all the fileschown -R /var/www/moodle-folder Moodle Web Installation Open your browser, you should get a page similar to this when you open the URL of the website.  Select the language and click Next At the next screen change the Moodle data directory to the appropriate directory Select the appropriate database driver Enter the database details of the database that was created Now click and wait, after some seconds you should see the conditions, that you should accept Moodle will perform some system checks to test that everything is working fine Click Continue and other checks will come up.... Click continue fill the data of admin user (Name, First, user password..) Finally you will land on the Administrator page Adding plugins Installing Plugins Navigate to the Moodle plugins website (https://moodle.org/plugins/) Search for the plugin Download the latest version of the plugin, preferably matching the production version of Moodle Login to your Moodle site as an admin and go to Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Install plugins Upload the ZIP file. You should only be prompted to add extra details (in the Show more section) if your plugin is not automatically detected If your target directory is not writeable, you will see a warning message Check the plugin validation report Follow the prompts to complete Post Installation Cron (automatic tasks) setup Setting Moodle up for run tasks automatically Login to server as root Open crontabcrontab -e Add the below line to crontab (replacing moodlefolder with the actual Moodle folder) */5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/moodlefolder/admin/cli/cron.php >/dev/null The above example will run the command every 5 min