I also noticed that php5-mysql was not installed by default when I ran “sudo apt-get install moodle” on a new Gutsy server install. I’m not sure if that’s correct, or if I was just confused.

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1. edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf to remove the lock for localhost (127.0.0.1)

sudo nano +47 /etc/mysql/my.cnf
comment out the line (add a # at the VERY beginning of the line)

#bind-address = 127.0.0.1


2. edit /etc/hosts.allow to allow connections from your server (10.0.0.1 in this example – change it to the address you are connecting FROM). Note: “ALL” is too general, but I had trouble using “mysqld”, which was recommended.

sudo nano /etc/hosts.allow

scroll to the bottom and add:

ALL : 10.0.0.55

3. Add the user in mysql with the correct host identification. Enter mysql as root (mysql -u root -p) and do the following:

create user remoteguy@10.0.0.55 identified by 'l33ta0l';

4. You could restart your mysql and inet services, but i just restart the server – sometimes easier

NOW, go to the client (in this case, we’re calling it 10.0.0.55) and do, (we’re calling the mysql server 10.0.0.2) :

mysql -u remoteguy@10.0.0.55 -p -h 10.0.0.2


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NOTE: DO *NOT* USE THIS METHOD TO INSTALL A MOODLE SERVER ON UBUNTU. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF TRIAL AND ERROR, AND THE METHOD IS NOT USEFUL FOR LONG TERM INSTALLATIONS. INSTALL MOODLE FROM THE UBUNTU REPOSITORY (“sudo apt-get install moodle”) OR FROM THE CVS REPOSITORY, BUT DO NOT MIX THE METHODS! (sorry for yelling

1. Install stock Ubuntu Server (7.04)
2. Check the option for a LAMP server (if it shows)
3. edit /etc/apt/sources.list and comment out the cd (sudo nano +4 /etc/apt/sources.list)
4. set /etc/network/interfaces to static
   iface eth0 inet static
   address 192.168.1.42
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   broadcast 192.168.1.255
   gateway 192.168.1.1
5. add openssh-server (sudo apt-get install openssh-server)
6. stop and start the interface to bring up the new ip (sudo ifdown eth0; sudo ifup eth0)
7. switch to ssh managment (ssh user@192.168.1.42)
8. edit /etc/apache2/ports.conf to listen on a good port (this is only necessary because i run a different server on port 80. If this were set up for SSL, you would change ports.conf to listen on 443.
9. sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (look at using unattended upgrade package)
10. sudo /etc/init.d/mysql reset-password (set the root password for mysql)
11. add a database and user to mysql for moodle
    mysql -u root -p
    create user moodle identified by ‘PASSWORD’;
    create database moodle;
    grant all on moodle.* to moodle;
    exit
12. sudo apt-get install moodle (enter the following information)
    Apache2
    MySQL
    localhost
    root
    PASSWORD
    moodle
    PASSWORD
13. sudo nano +16 /etc/moodle/config.php (change this to the static ip to allow access from your ssh computer)
14. sudo nano +12 /etc/moodle/apache.conf (remove the # on line 12 to allow access from outside localhost)
15. restart apache, sudo apache2 -k restart
16. go through the web browser setup (this writes the tables!)

click continue through a few pages…
change the country name
probably should run clam on startup… must have it installed first!
set the smtp (if needed)
max editing time..i like 60 – i hate to lose my work!
enable stats

17. Log into the adming for the site and convert all the data in your database to Unicode using our migration script. Click here to run the migration script now!
18. DELETE /var/www/apache-default
19. apt-get remove moodle, it leaves the /etc/moodle files and the database entries.
20. cd /var/www
21. sudo apt-get install cvs
22. login to the CVS repository
    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@eu.cvs.moodle.org:/cvsroot/moodle login
    No password for anonymous, so just hit the Enter button.
23. sudo cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@eu.cvs.moodle.org:/cvsroot/moodle co -r MOODLE_19_STABLE moodle
24. when you go back to the web browser, it will start a new migration script. teh only thing i had to change was the data location from /var/moodledata to /var/lib/moodle
25. this created a directory called moodle in the www files. do “sudo nano index.php” to create a redirector

meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;url=/moodle”

26. open up /etc/moodle/apache.conf, comment out the alias, and change the directory match to /var/www/
27. log back in to the web page and run updates
28. sudo a2enmod ssl
29. sudo apt-get install ssl-cert
30. sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl
31. sudo /usr/sbin/make-ssl-cert /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem
32. edit cp the default site enabled to your new name and edit for *.443, also add (in the ## area in the middle)
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem
    SSLProtocol all
    SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM
33. sudo a2ensite [sitename]
34. change /etc/apache2/ports.conf to 443

• http://docs.moodle.org/en/Upgrading
• To update, just go into the Moodle root directory and update to the new files: cvs update -dP
• To update to a new version type in the following and change 18 to whatever newest version upgrade number is cvs -Q update -dP -r MOODLE_18_STABLE

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