In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Moodle on Manjaro, a user-friendly Linux distribution based on Arch Linux.
Before installing Moodle, it is important to update your system to ensure that you have the latest packages and security updates. To update your system on Manjaro, open a terminal window and run the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
Moodle is a web-based application that requires a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP) stack. If you have not already installed LAMP on your system, you can do so by running the following command:
sudo pacman -S apache mariadb php php-apache php-gd php-intl php-xml php-pgsql
Once the installation is complete, start the Apache and MariaDB services and enable them to start at boot time:
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl start mariadb
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl enable mariadb
Next, you need to create a MariaDB database and user for Moodle. To do this, first log in to the MariaDB server as the root user:
sudo mysql -u root
Then, create a new database:
CREATE DATABASE moodle_db CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
Create a new user and grant the necessary privileges to the Moodle database:
CREATE USER 'moodle_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON moodle_db.* TO 'moodle_user'@'localhost';
Note: Replace 'password' with a strong password for your Moodle user.
Download the latest version of Moodle from the official website (https://moodle.org/) using the following command:
wget https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable39/moodle-latest-39.tgz
Extract the Moodle archive to the web server's document root directory:
sudo tar xvf moodle-latest-39.tgz -C /srv/http/
sudo mv /srv/http/moodle/* /srv/http/
sudo chown -R http:http /srv/http/*
Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost to start the Moodle installation wizard. Follow the on-screen instructions to configure Moodle and connect it to the database you created earlier.
When prompted, enter the following details:
Complete the wizard and your Moodle installation should now be complete.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Moodle on Manjaro, a user-friendly Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. You also learned how to install a LAMP stack, create a database, and run the Moodle installation wizard. Happy learning with your new Moodle installation!
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