Okay, so welcome to my page about setting up Moodle. It’s going to be a work in progress but hopefully you’ll be able to make use of what I write here.
Just a quick disclaimer: Anyone to be reading this I assume has past experience working with HTML/PHP code and working with the Windows OS. Knowledge using phpMyAdmin will be required in setting up the database.
Prerequisites
- You will need some kind of server to run it on, whether you have two, one for the sofware ie the Application server, or another one, for the database, is up to you although you can quite easily just have one to run both.
- Operating system can be either Windows or Mac, but I’m more knowledgeable about setting it up on Windows so I’ll talk you through that
- Apache, PHP and MySQL set up. I’ve used a WAMP called WampServer 2
The WampServer toolbar accessed from the task bar icon in Windows
Installation
- Download the latest Moodle release from the download repositry: http://download.moodle.org/
- Unzip the download and copy the ‘moodle’ folder to the web root within the WampServer 2. The default location of this will be: C:\wamp\www
- You will now need to set up a new MySQL database for Moodle. Make sure WampServer 2 is running, then open a new web browser and navigate to http://localhost.
- A page will be displayed showing you the default site. Three quarters of the way down will be a link to phpMyAdmin; follow this. I assume you have used this before, so go about creating a new database.
- Now navigate to http://localhost/moodle and follow what you see on the screen. It’s all fairly straight forward. When you get to the page asking you for database details enter the name of the database you set up in phpMyAdmin and continue with the install.
- At some point you’ll be asked to create an Admin account. Complete the fields, and continue.
More to come!