Step-by-step Install Guide for Ubuntu

What you need to start

• Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server CD
• x86 desktop computer, keyboard, monitor, mouse, and firewalled internet connection.
• One hour of time. (seriously!)

Directions:

Install Ubuntu

Start computer and use F12 to boot from CD.

Select Install to hard drive.

Select your language, country, and keyboard layout (i.e. English, United States, American English)

Select autodetect network, if you have DHCP. Should be made a static IP in a development or production environment.

Enter your servername (i.e. moodletest)

Select to manually edit the partition table. I’m doing my testing on a standard 40GB harddrive and will modify these sizes for production.

/boot ext3 200MB bootable (needs to be on the first part of the drive)

/ ext3 10GB (files are relatively static)

swap 4GB (nice to have a good amount of space)

/var ext3 26GB (variable content – uses rest of the drive)

Select your timezone. (i.e. Central)

Set clock to Universal Time.

Enter Administrators Full name. (i.e. Joe Smith)

Enter account name. (i.e. joesmith)

Enter a secure password. (‘abcde’ is not a good one!)

Let the computer restart.

Log in your account.

Type the following on the command line.

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list  

(uncomment the universe source – about line 22)

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade

sudo reboot

=== Install MySQL ===

sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server openssh-server

mysqladmin –u root password databasepassword

OTHER MYSQL PASSWORD COMMAND

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 php5-gd php5-mysqli 

sudo apt-get install ntp ntp-simple unattended-upgrades

sudo apt-get install clamav unzip zip aspell-en

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-security php5-ldap php5-odbc

The last line installs optional packages for our moodle site.

Install Moodle

cd /var/www

sudo wget http://download.moodle.org/stable17/moodle-latest-17.tgz

sudo tar –zxf moodle-latest-17.tgz

sudo mkdir /var/moodledata

sudo chown –R www-data.www-data /var/moodledata /var/www/moodle

sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/default  

(modify lines 4 and 9 from /var/www to /var/www/moodle)

mysql -u root -p (enter your MySQL root password)

CREATE DATABASE moodle; GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,DROP,INDEX,ALTER ON moodle.* TO moodle@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'moodlepassword'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; QUIT;

Configure Moodle website

ifconfig (look for your server’s ip address on the 2nd line)

On another computer open a web browser and put in your server address

Complete the Moodle install using a secure username and password

Reboot

Go to a bar for a few hours.

Come back and tell your boss that you FINALLY got the test server running.