Let’s install Moodle 3.2 on Centos 6
First we must take care of system requirements, we need PHP 5.6.5, Mysql 5.5.31 and some specific PHP and Mysql modules.
- PHP 5.6.5
Centos 6.8 comes with PHP 5.3.3 available on the official repository, we will have to install a new version.
First remove all PHP software:
yum remove php*
Install EPEL:
yum install epel-release.noarch
And REMI:
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm
Enable Remi repo:
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
edit remi.repo
Make sure “[remi-php56]” section is enabled
As you can see the Notice tell’s you that you need remi-safe also enabled, since dependencies are there, so edit remi-safe.repo and make sure it is enabled.
Now all you need to do is install PHP like you usually do “yum install php …” and it will install the 5.6 version
Install the following PHP packages needed for Moodle:
yum install php-iconv php-mbstring php-curl php-openssl php-tokenizer 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 php-mysql php-mcrypt php php-xmlrpc php-opcache
- Mysql 5.5.31
Centos 6 Mysql version is also not enough, so we need to install a new version.
Remove Mysql:
yum remove mysql*
We will use remi‘s repo as well to install a higher version:
yum –enablerepo=remi,remi-test install mysql mysql-server
Run mysql_secure_installation for minimum security
Now login to mysql
mysql -u root -p
Let’s create the Moodle database:
create database moodledb;
Create user “moodleadmin” with password “superstrong” with full permissions on this database ONLY:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON moodledb.* TO ‘moodleadmin’@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘ superstrong ‘;
Now reload permissions table:
flush privileges;
We must also make sure that the following settings are set on mysql config file ( /etc/my.cnf )
[client]
default-character-set = utf8mb4
[mysqld]
innodb_file_format = Barracuda
innodb_file_per_table = 1
innodb_large_prefix
character-set-client-handshake = FALSE
character-set-server = utf8mb4
collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci
[mysql]
default-character-set = utf8mb4
Download Moodle and untar files:
wget https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable32/moodle-3.2.2.tgz
tar xzvf moodle-3.2.2.tgz
cd moodle
cp –a * /var/www/html/moodle
chown –R apache:apache /var/www/html/moodle
chmod –R 755 /var/www/html/moodle
Create the Data directory for Moodle:
mkdir -p /var/www/moodledata
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/moodledata
chmod -R 755 /var/www/moodledata
Now we can start Moodle installation by navigating to http://ip-address/moodle or any other address you setup pointing to moodle’s document root
It will check for all the necessary components, if something’s missing you must correct it:
Follow the instructions and you’ll have Moodle installed in no time.
