Step-by-step Install Guide for Ubuntu: Difference between revisions
Mikel Stous (talk | contribs) m (clarified editing command and creating moodle database) |
Mikel Stous (talk | contribs) |
||
Line 95: | Line 95: | ||
Additional languages are available for aspell. | Additional languages are available for aspell. | ||
The LDAP and ODBC packages will help | The LDAP and ODBC packages will help our Moodle authenticate via Active Directory and enroll via an Oracle database. | ||
=== Install Moodle === | === Install Moodle === |
Revision as of 13:18, 24 January 2007
What you need to start:
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server CD
- A test 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 change it to 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 (4xRAM if you don't have much memory, down to 1xRAM if you have gobs of memory) /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.
Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file. Remove the # mark on line twenty-two to enable access to the universe package source. You will need to re-enter your account password when sudo asks for it.
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Now to get all the security updates.
sudo apt-get updatet sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade
Just press Y to install the updates. Normally you would just use sudo apt-get upgrade.
And reboot to run on the new kernel!
sudo reboot
Install MySQL
At this point we'll need to log in again to the server.
Replace the string NewRootDatabasePassword with a secure password of your own choosing.
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client mysqladmin –u root password NewRootDatabasePassword mysqladmin -u root -h localhost password NewRootDatabasePassword
Install Apache
On the command line, type:
sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-gd php5-mysqli
It's that simple!
Install other software
On the command line, type:
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 clamav package will support virus checking on file uploads into Moodle.
Additional languages are available for aspell.
The LDAP and ODBC packages will help our Moodle authenticate via Active Directory and enroll via an Oracle database.
Install Moodle
On the command line, type:
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
We now need to edit the location of the default web site. On lines four and nine, replace /var/www with /var/www/moodle. Restart Apache.
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Finally, we need to create the Moodle database and Moodle user in MySQL.
Replace the string RootDatabasePassword with the database password from above and replace NewMoodleDatabasePassword with a secure password of your own choosing.
mysql -u root -p RootDatabasePassword CREATE DATABASE moodle; GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,DROP,INDEX,ALTER ON moodle.* TO moodle@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'NewMoodleDatabasePassword'; 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
Go to a bar for a few hours.
Come back and tell your boss that you FINALLY got the test server running.