Installation in a LAMP environment
Moodle is developed in Linux using Apache, MySQL, and PHP (known as the LAMP stack). If you have a choice, this is the preferred environment to use. There is an ongoing debate about whether PostgreSQL is the more suitable database option, but we will stick with MySQL/MariaDB as this is the system most administrators are familiar with. Also, some organizations are bound to Microsoft SQL or Oracle. If this is the case, please refer to the respective installation guide, as this is beyond the scope of this book.
The high-level installation process is shown in the following process diagram:
Figure 1.4 – Moodle installation process
We will go through each phase in the remaining subsections, covering each installation step in a Linux environment. The process is the same for other operating systems, which we won’t cover; here are some pointers that should get you started:
- For Windows servers with a small number...
