Time for action - creating your Mahara file structure

1. 1. Copy the mahara- 1.2.0.tar.gz package you downloaded into your home directory on your web server. If you are copying the file to the server from your own computer, you can do this using the scp command (on Linux or Mac):

scp mahara-1.2.0.tar.gz servername:pathtohomedirectory

• On Windows, you may prefer to use a free FTP utility such as FileZilla (http://filezilla-project.org/).

1. 2. Unpack the contents of the Mahara package on the Linux server. On the terminal, you can do this using the tar command:

tar xvzf mahara-1.2.0.tar.gz

1. 3. You will now see a new folder called mahara-1.2.0; you will need to rename this to public. To do this on the terminal, you can use the mv command:

   mv mahara-1.2.0 public
   
   

2. 4. That's it! The Mahara code is now in place.

What Just Happened?

You just learned where to copy the Mahara package on your server and how to extract its contents.