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 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		(4x if you don't have much memory, 1x 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.

Type the following on the command line. Uncomment 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 vi /etc/apt/sources.list  

Now to get all the security updates.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade

Just press Y to install all the updates.

And reboot!

sudo reboot

Install MySQL

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

mysqladmin –u root password ''YourDatabasePassword''

OTHER MYSQL PASSWORD COMMAND

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 us authenticate via Active Directory and enrol via an Oracle database.

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.