Install the 'Magic Lantern' teaching platform under Ubuntu

This is a step-by-step guide on how to install Moodle ("Magic Lamp") on Ubuntu 16.04. Moodle (abbreviation for Modular-object-oriented dynamic learning environment) is a free and open source learning management system for teachers, students and administrators Provide a personalized learning environment. Moodle is created by the Moodle Project and is led and coordinated by Moodle Headquarters[1].

Moodle has many very practical functions, such as:

Modern and easy-to-use interface
Personalized Dashboard
Collaboration Tools and Activities
Integrated Calendar
Simple text editor
Progress Tracking
announcement
Too many to mention…

In this tutorial, we will guide you to install the latest version of Moodle using Apache web server, MySQL and PHP 7 on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. (LCTT Translation: The installation on subsequent versions of Ubuntu is also similar.)

1. Log in via SSH

First, use the root user to log in to Ubuntu 16.04 VPS via SSH:

ssh root@IP_Address -p Port_number

2. Update operating system software package

Run the following commands to update system packages and install some dependent software:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get install git-core graphviz aspell

3. Install Apache Web server

Use the following command to install the Apache Web server from the Ubuntu software repository:

apt-get install apache2

4. Start the Apache Web server

Once installed, start Apache and enable it to start automatically at system startup, using the following command:

systemctl enable apache2

5. Install PHP 7

Next, we will install some additional PHP modules required for PHP 7 and Moodle, the command is:

apt-get install php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-pspell php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-intl php7.0-mysql php7.0-xml php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-ldap php7.0-zip

6. Install and configure the MySQL database server

Moodle stores most of its data in a database, so we will install the MySQL database server using the following command:

apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server

After the installation is complete, run the

mysql_secure_installation script to configure MySQL's root password to ensure MySQL security.

Log in to the MySQL server as the

root user, and create a database for Moodle and a user who can access it. The following are the specific instructions:

mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE moodle;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON moodle.* TO 'moodleuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> \q

Be sure to remember to replace the above

PASSWORD with a strong password.

7. Get Moodle from GitHub repository

Next, switch the current working directory and copy Moodle from the official GitHub repository:

cd /var/www/html/
git clone https://github.com/moodle/moodle.git

Switch to the

moodle directory and check all available branches:

cd moodle/
git branch -a

Select the latest stable version (currently

MOODLE_34_STABLE) and run the following command to tell git which branch can be tracked or used:

git branch --track MOODLE_34_STABLE origin/MOODLE_34_STABLE

and switch to this specific version:

git checkout MOODLE_34_STABLE

Switched to branch 'MOODLE_34_STABLE'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/MOODLE_34_STABLE'.

Create a directory for storing Moodle data:

mkdir /var/moodledata

Set its ownership and access rights correctly:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/moodle
chown www-data:www-data /var/moodledata

8. Configure Apache Web server

使用以下内容为您的域名创建 Apache 虚拟主机：

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/yourdomain.com.conf

    ServerAdmin admin@yourdomain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/moodle
    ServerName yourdomain.com
    ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all

    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/yourdomain.com-error_log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/yourdomain.com-access_log common

保存文件并启用虚拟主机：

a2ensite yourdomain.com

Enabling site yourdomain.com.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
 service apache2 reload

最后，重启 Apache Web 服务器，以使配置生效：

service apache2 reload

9、 接下来按照提示完成安装

现在，点击 “http://yourdomain.com”（LCTT 译注：在浏览器的地址栏里输入以上域名以访问 Apache WEB 服务器），按照提示完成 Moodle 的安装。有关如何配置和使用 Moodle 的更多信息，您可以查看其官方文档[2]。

如果您使用我们的优化的 Moodle 托管主机服务[3]，您不必在 Ubuntu 16.04 上安装 Moodle，在这种情况下，您只需要求我们的专业 Linux 系统管理员在 Ubuntu 16.04 上安装和配置最新版本的 Moodle。他们将提供 24×7 及时响应的服务。

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