This documentation will describes how to install Moodle 3.* on your virtual server. Install default PHP extensions for Moodle and configure PHP for optimal server work.
First step is to purchase your virtual server from DIGITAL OCEAN or Amazone. Server (AWS) or others services.
As an example we took Ubuntu server from DIGITAL OCEAN Ubuntu 16.04 without any installations:
Details of the server would be:
OS: Ubuntu 16.04
PHP version: 7.0
Mysql: 5.7
Apache version: 2.4
Connect to your server visa ssh protocol
Update LINUX
sudo apt-get update
Update Date ZONE
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
Install Apache
sudo apt-get install apache2
Apache enable Rewrite rule and restart it
sudo a2enmod rewrite sudo service apache2 restart
Install MYSQL
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
Create Scheme
mysql -uroot -p{YOUR_PASSWORD}
CREATE DATABASE moodle DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
Install PHP 7 and PHP Extensions
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl
Install PHP Extensions
sudo apt-get install php7.0-zip sudo apt-get install php-mbstring sudo apt-get install php7.0-xsl sudo apt-get install php7.0-gd sudo apt-get install php7.0-soap sudo apt-get install php-xml sudo apt-get install php-ldap sudo apt-get install php7.0-dev sudo apt-get install php-xmlrpc sudo apt-get install php-gd
Configure file php.ini
file location: /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
Edit this fields:
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1800 max_execution_time=100 max_input_time=100 memory_limit=512M max_file_uploads=50 upload_max_filesize=100M post_max_size = 100M
Install Git
sudo apt-get install git
Clone Moodle 3.3 from stable repository
git clone --depth=1 -b MOODLE_33_STABLE git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git /var/www/moodle
sudo mkdir moodledata
Generate Permissions on Writable directories
sudo chown -R root /var/www/moodle/ sudo chmod -R 0755 /var/www/moodle/ sudo find /var/www/moodle -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
Generate Permissions on moodledata directory
sudo chmod 0777 moodledata/ -R sudo chown www-data:www-data moodle/ -R Sudo chown www-data:www-data moodledata/ -R
Configure Domain (APACHE)
configure file 000-default.conf with
vim /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your-domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/moodle
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Restart Apache
sudo sudo service apache2 restart
Run your domain and install your moodle
Source links: https://docs.moodle.org/33/en/Step-by-step_Installation_Guide_for_Ubuntu