{"id":24627,"date":"2017-12-14T02:45:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T08:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/?p=24627"},"modified":"2022-06-03T03:35:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T08:35:21","slug":"how-to-install-moodle-on-ubuntu-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-install-moodle-on-ubuntu-16-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Moodle on Ubuntu 16.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/How-to-Install-Moodle-on-Ubuntu-16.04.jpg\" alt=\"How to Install Moodle on Ubuntu 16.04\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/How-to-Install-Moodle-on-Ubuntu-16.04.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/How-to-Install-Moodle-on-Ubuntu-16.04-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/How-to-Install-Moodle-on-Ubuntu-16.04-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/How-to-Install-Moodle-on-Ubuntu-16.04-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/How-to-Install-Moodle-on-Ubuntu-16.04-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/How-to-Install-Moodle-on-Ubuntu-16.04-860x430.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/How-to-Install-Moodle-on-Ubuntu-16.04-680x340.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/How-to-Install-Moodle-on-Ubuntu-16.04-500x250.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/How-to-Install-Moodle-on-Ubuntu-16.04-400x200.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/How-to-Install-Moodle-on-Ubuntu-16.04-200x100.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/How-to-Install-Moodle-on-Ubuntu-16.04-50x25.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step-by-step Installation Guide on how to Install Moodle on Ubuntu 16.04. Moodle (acronym of Modular-object-oriented dynamic learning environment&#8217;) is a free and open source learning management system built to provide teachers, students and administrators single personalized learning environment.\u00a0Moodle is built by the Moodle project which is led and coordinated by\u00a0Moodle HQ.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moodle comes with a lot of useful features such as:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Modern and easy to use interface<\/li>\n<li>Personalised Dashboard<\/li>\n<li>Collaborative tools and activities<\/li>\n<li>All-in-one calendar<\/li>\n<li>Simple text editor<\/li>\n<li>Track progress<\/li>\n<li>Notifications<\/li>\n<li>and many more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this tutorial we will guide you through the steps of installing the latest version of Moodle on an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with Apache web server, MySQL and PHP 7.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662faaecb423f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"ez-toc-cssicon\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-662faaecb423f\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-install-moodle-on-ubuntu-16-04\/#1-Login-via-SSH\" title=\"1. Login via SSH\">1. Login via SSH<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-install-moodle-on-ubuntu-16-04\/#2-Update-the-OS-Packages\" title=\"2. Update the OS Packages\">2. Update the OS Packages<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-install-moodle-on-ubuntu-16-04\/#3-Install-Apache-Web-Server\" title=\"3. Install Apache Web Server\">3. Install Apache Web Server<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-install-moodle-on-ubuntu-16-04\/#4-Start-Apache-Web-Server\" title=\"4. Start Apache Web Server\">4. Start Apache Web Server<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-install-moodle-on-ubuntu-16-04\/#5-Install-PHP-7\" title=\"5. Install PHP 7\">5. Install PHP 7<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-install-moodle-on-ubuntu-16-04\/#6-Install-and-Configure-MySQL-Database-Server\" title=\"6. Install and Configure MySQL Database Server\">6. Install and Configure MySQL Database Server<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-install-moodle-on-ubuntu-16-04\/#7-Get-Moodle-from-GitHub-repository\" title=\"7. Get Moodle from GitHub repository\">7. Get Moodle from GitHub repository<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-install-moodle-on-ubuntu-16-04\/#8-Configure-Apache-Web-Server\" title=\"8. Configure Apache Web Server\">8. Configure Apache Web Server<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-install-moodle-on-ubuntu-16-04\/#9-Follow-the-on-screen-instructions-and-complete-the-installation\" title=\"9.\u00a0Follow the on-screen instructions and complete the installation\">9.\u00a0Follow the on-screen instructions and complete the installation<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1-Login-via-SSH\"><\/span>1. Login via SSH<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>First of all, login to your Ubuntu 16.04 VPS via SSH as user root<\/p>\n<pre>ssh root@IP_Address -p Port_number<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2-Update-the-OS-Packages\"><\/span>2. Update the OS Packages<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Run the following command to update the OS packages and install some dependencies<\/p>\n<pre>apt-get update &amp;&amp; apt-get upgrade\r\napt-get install git-core graphviz aspell<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3-Install-Apache-Web-Server\"><\/span>3. Install Apache Web Server<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Install Apache web server from the Ubuntu repository<\/p>\n<pre>apt-get install apache2<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4-Start-Apache-Web-Server\"><\/span>4. Start Apache Web Server<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Once it is installed, start Apache and enable it to start automatically upon system boot<\/p>\n<pre>systemctl enable apache2<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5-Install-PHP-7\"><\/span>5. Install PHP 7<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Next, we will install PHP 7 and some additional PHP modules required by Moodle<\/p>\n<pre>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<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6-Install-and-Configure-MySQL-Database-Server\"><\/span>6. Install and Configure MySQL Database Server<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Moodle stores most of its data in a database, so we will install MySQL database server<\/p>\n<pre>apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server<\/pre>\n<p>After the installation, run the <code>mysql_secure_installation<\/code> script to set your MySQL root password and secure your MySQL installation.<\/p>\n<p>Login to the MySQL server as user root and create a user and database for the Moodle installation<\/p>\n<pre>mysql -u root -p\r\nmysql&gt; CREATE DATABASE moodle;\r\nmysql&gt; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON moodle.* TO 'moodleuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';\r\nmysql&gt; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;\r\nmysql&gt; \\q<\/pre>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to replace &#8216;PASSWORD&#8217; with an actual strong password.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"7-Get-Moodle-from-GitHub-repository\"><\/span>7. Get Moodle from GitHub repository<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Next, change the current working directory and clone Moodle from their official GitHub repository<\/p>\n<pre>cd \/var\/www\/html\/\r\ngit clone https:\/\/github.com\/moodle\/moodle.git<\/pre>\n<p>Go to the &#8216;\/moodle&#8217; directory and check all available branches<\/p>\n<pre>cd moodle\/\r\ngit branch -a<\/pre>\n<p>Select the latest stable version (currently it is MOODLE_34_STABLE) and run the following command to tell git which branch to track or use<\/p>\n<pre>git branch --track MOODLE_34_STABLE origin\/MOODLE_34_STABLE<\/pre>\n<p>and checkout the specified version<\/p>\n<pre>git checkout MOODLE_34_STABLE\r\n\r\nSwitched to branch 'MOODLE_34_STABLE'\r\nYour branch is up-to-date with 'origin\/MOODLE_34_STABLE'.<\/pre>\n<p>Create a directory for the Moodle data<\/p>\n<pre>mkdir \/var\/moodledata<\/pre>\n<p>Set the correct ownership and permissions<\/p>\n<pre>chown -R www-data:www-data \/var\/www\/html\/moodle\r\nchown www-data:www-data \/var\/moodledata<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"8-Configure-Apache-Web-Server\"><\/span>8. Configure Apache Web Server<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Create Apache virtual host for your domain name with the following content<\/p>\n<pre>nano \/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/yourdomain.com.conf\r\n\r\n \tServerAdmin admin@yourdomain.com\r\n \tDocumentRoot \/var\/www\/html\/moodle\r\n \tServerName yourdomain.com\r\n \tServerAlias www.yourdomain.com\r\n \r\n\tOptions Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews\r\n\tAllowOverride All\r\n\tOrder allow,deny\r\n\tallow from all\r\n \r\n \tErrorLog \/var\/log\/httpd\/yourdomain.com-error_log\r\n \tCustomLog \/var\/log\/httpd\/yourdomain.com-access_log common\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>save the file and enable the virtual host<\/p>\n<pre>a2ensite yourdomain.com\r\n\r\nEnabling site yourdomain.com.\r\nTo activate the new configuration, you need to run:\r\n  service apache2 reload<\/pre>\n<p>Finally, reload the web server as suggested, for the changes to take effect<\/p>\n<pre>service apache2 reload<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"9-Follow-the-on-screen-instructions-and-complete-the-installation\"><\/span>9.\u00a0Follow the on-screen instructions and complete the installation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Now, go to <code>http:\/\/yourdomain.com<\/code> and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the Moodle installation. For more information on how to configure and use Moodle, you can check their <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/34\/en\/Main_page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to install Moodle on Ubuntu 16.04, if you use one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/moodle-hosting.html\">optimized Moodle hosting<\/a>, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to install and configure the latest version of Moodle on Ubuntu 16.04 for you. They are available 24\u00d77 and will take care of your request immediately.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>PS.<\/strong><\/span> If you liked this post on how to install Moodle on Ubuntu 16.04, please share it with your friends on the social networks using the buttons on the left or simply leave a reply below. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step-by-step Installation Guide on how to Install Moodle on Ubuntu 16.04. 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