PHP configuration

PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. This kind of idiom is known as a recursive acronym. A recursive acronym is an acronym that refers to itself in the expression for which it stands. It is widely used in programming since recursion is one of the common methods used in everyday programming. PHP is an open source, general purpose scripting language widely used for web development. Moodle is completely written in PHP and therefore to run Moodle we need to install and configure PHP. As any other software PHP has potential and real security problems. Because of that we need to be sure that it is configured properly in order to reduce potential security issues.

Installation

To install the PHP that comes with CentOS, execute the following commands from the command prompt:

yum install php php-cli php-common php-gd php-mysql php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-tidy

This version of PHP is not the latest so we need even more security. Luckily there is the Suhosin plugin. Suhosin...