CentOS Linux installation

Installing Moodle 2.0 on stock version of CentOS 5.x is not that straightforward due to a limitations imposed by the software available in the default repositories.

So let us go step by step in configuring and installing Moodle 2.0 on CentOS 5.5.

Asumptions

• We have just a minimal OS installation
• PHP is not installed
• No RDBMS is installed
• Apache is not installed
• We plan on using MySQL as Moodle RDBMS

Requirements

As you may or may not know Moodle 2.0 requires following versions of software:

Element	Version
PHP	5.2.8 (5.3.3 or more recent recommended)
MySQL	5.0.25 (5.5.x recommended)
Apache	2.2.x (CentOS ships with 2.2.3)