Chamilo LMS is a powerful and user-friendly Learning Management System that allows educators to create, manage, and deliver digital content to students. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Chamilo LMS on Ubuntu Server Latest.
Before we start, make sure that you have the following:
A Ubuntu Server Latest installation.
SSH access to your server.
A user account with sudo privileges.
First, update and upgrade your Ubuntu server to the latest version. Open your terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Chamilo LMS requires a LAMP stack to run. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Install them by running the following command:
sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql php-gd php-xml php-mbstring php-zip -y
Chamilo LMS requires a database to store its data. Create a database and a user for it by running the following commands:
sudo mysql -u root
CREATE DATABASE chamilo;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON chamilo.* TO 'chamilo'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Replace password with a strong password of your choice.
Download the latest stable release of Chamilo LMS from their official website using the following command:
wget https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/releases/download/v1.11.12/chamilo-1.11.12-php7.x.tar.gz
Unzip the downloaded file to the Apache root directory:
sudo tar -xvzf chamilo-1.11.12-php7.x.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/
Change the ownership and permissions of the Chamilo LMS directory:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/chamilo-1.11.12
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/chamilo-1.11.12
Create a virtual host configuration file for Chamilo LMS:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/chamilo.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [your-email-address]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/chamilo-1.11.12
ServerName [your-domain-name]
<Directory /var/www/html/chamilo-1.11.12>
Options FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace [your-email-address] and [your-domain-name] with your own details.
Enable the virtual host:
sudo a2ensite chamilo.conf
Reload Apache:
sudo systemctl reload apache2
Finally, open your web browser and navigate to http://[your-domain-name]/install. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Chamilo LMS on your Ubuntu Server Latest. Start creating courses and managing your students and their progress with Chamilo LMS.
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