Moodle LMS

Posted under » PHP on 17 Apr 2025

I have tried installing Moodle using docker but I find it too 'restrictive' or complicated.

So let's try do it the 'normal' way. The normal way requires that your OS meet the requirements. For Moodle version 5, they are

• PHP 8.2
• MariaDB 10.11.0 or MySQL 8.4 MySQL 8.4 or Postgres 14
• php libraries
• PHP setting max_input_vars must be at least 5000.

Of course you need a web server like Apache too. Set up as usual ie. prepare a blank mysql database. On first access, you will be faced with install.php and you need to fill in the data.

What is new is that it requires you to give a folder name called 'moodledata' which I assume where the static files are stored. You may have to create the folder manualy if the www-data fails.