Installation Of MOODLE from Source

  Moodle (abbreviation for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is a free source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System, Learning Management System, or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Moodle was originally developed by Martin Dougiamas to help educators create online courses with a focus on interaction and collaborative

construction of content, and is in continual evolution.

Installation 

1) Downloaded moodle application from website.

2) Extracted the file and copied it to the location /home/www/www/

3) Created database named "moodle"

>create database moodle;

Granted permission to the database for the user moodleuser

> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON moodle.* TO "moodleuser"@"localhost" IDENTIFIED BY "redhat";

Flushed privilege

>flush privileges;

4) Changed permission of the wordpress file on that location

chown -R www:www /home/www/www/*

5) For Moodle installation mysqli extension should be enabled

Also other extensions such as mbstring, openssl, zip ,soap

Recompiled Php with mysqli and other extensions

./configure --prefix=/usr/local

--with-config-file-path=/usr/localphp

--enable-cgi --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql

--with-zlib

--with-curll

--with--gd

--with-mcrypt

--with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

--with-pdo-mysql

--enable-zip

--enable-mbstring

--with-openssl

--enable-soap

Restart Apache and enter the open browser and enter the following address

http://test007.server.com/moodle

Follow the instructions during installation and moodle will be installed.