Install Moodle 3.0.3 on Centos 7

Moodle is primarily developed in Linux using Apache, MySQL and PHP.  

The basic requirements for Moodle are as follows:

1. OS - Linux and Windows are the most common choices.
2.Apache or IIS - Moodle will refuse to install on any other web server. Your web server needs to be correctly configured to serve PHP files.
3.PHP - The minimum version is currently 5.3.2. A number of extensions are required; see the PHP page for full details. Installation will halt at the environment check if any of the required extensions are missing.
4.Database - MySQL and PostgreSQL are the primary development database, the most comprehensively tested and have extensive documentation and support.

A)    Open Ports on Firewall:
# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=8080/tcp
# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=80/tcp
# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=443/tcp
# systemctl stop firewalld
# systemctl start firewalld

B)    Install Apache 
# yum install httpd
# systemctl enable httpd
# systemctl start  httpd
# systemctl status httpd

C)     Install MY SQL 5.7.9

Centos 7 comes with MariaDB instead of MySQL. MariaDb is an open source equivalent to MySQL.   To remove Mariadb run:

# yum remove mariadb mariadb-server

Now you need to add the MySQL-community repo:

# sudo rpm -Uvh http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm   

And then you can install MySQL like you normally do.

# yum install mysql mysql-server
# systemctl start mysqld
# systemctl status mysqld
# /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

Give it a new root password. For Example (xxxxxxx)

Press YES on all Messages
•    Set root password? [Y/n] Y
•    Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
•    Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y
•    Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y
•    Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y

# systemctl enable mysqld.service

D)   Configure MySQL character set to UTF-8
We need to edit my.cnf to support utf8
# vi /etc/my.cnf

Add the bellow:
character-set-server = utf8
skip-character-set-client-handshake
Save the file

# systemctl restart mysqld
# mysql -u root –p

mysql> status;

Check them like this:

Server characterset: utf8
Db     characterset:    utf8
Client characterset:     utf8   
Conn.  characterset: utf8

 

E)    Create user on  mysql
# mysql -u root -p
]> CREATE DATABASE moodle character set utf8;
]> CREATE USER 'muser@localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'xxxxxxx';
]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON moodle.* TO muser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'xxxxxxx';
]>  FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
]>  Exit

F)    Installing PHP Version 5.4.16
# yum install php php-mysql
# yum install php-iconv php-mbstring php-curl php-openssl php-tokenizer php-xmlpc php-soap php-ctype php-zip php-gd php-simplexml php-spl php-pcre php-dom php-xml php-intl php-json php-ldap php-pecl-apc

G)    Install Moodle 3.0.3

Download latest version of Moodle and configure web services accordingly
#  cd  /root
# wget https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable30/moodle-3.0.3.zip
#  unzip moodle-3.0.3.zip -d /var/www/html/
#  chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/moodle
#  chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/moodle

Additionally, we have to create a data director  for moodle under /var/www/ named as ‘moodledata’ which will be used by moodle, change permissions and ownership for that directory as required.
#  cd /var/www/
#  mkdir moodledata
#  chmod -R 755 /var/www/moodledata
#  chown -R apache:apache /var/www/moodledata

Restart httpd services
# systemctl restart httpd

Installation process is over at this stage, lets configure moodle server.

Open a browser type http://(Your IP Address)/moodle