Installation Quickstart

This guide is designed for administrators who have installed Moodle before and need a quick recap or for those administrators who wish to have an overview of the installation procedure before they start getting deeper into it.

Here are the steps

Preparation

• Install PHP and required extensions, a supported database such as MySQL and a webserver on the target computer
• Create a blank database (call it moodle if you like) and create a database user with the appropriate permissions
• Create a data directory (call it moodledata if you wish) outside of the webserver.
• Ensure the webserver is the owner of the data folder and give the owner read, write and execute permissions
• Download Moodle

Installation

• Extract the files and place them in the documents folder on the webserver (or any webserver subfolder)
• Go to http://yourserver/install.php or http://yourserver/subfolders/install.php to start the installation
• Download the config.php file from your webserver and place in the moodle root if prompted

Configuration

• If you agree witht he GPL license you will be allowed to continue
• Give your site a name and description
• Configure an admin account

One last thing

Once you have finished setting up moodle you need to set up cron

That's it! Well done :-)