Moodle-Learning-Management-System/C2/Getting-Ready-for-Moodle-Installation/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:01	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Getting ready for Moodle installation.
00:07	In this tutorial, we will learn about the prerequisites for installing Moodle.
00:14	We will also learn to check for packages on localhost and database setup.
00:22	To record this tutorial, I will be using: Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04,
00:30	Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30 and Firefox web browser.
00:42	You can use any web browser of your choice.
00:46	To install Moodle 3.3 in your system, you should have a machine that supports:
00:52	Apache 2.x (or higher version), MariaDB 5.5.30 (or any higher version) and PHP 5.4.4 +(or any higher version).
01:08	If you have older versions of the above, ideally uninstall these before proceeding ahead.
01:16	MariaDB is the fastest growing open source database.
01:21	It is an alternative for MySQL database.
01:26	Web server distributions give you Apache, MariaDB and PHP bundled in one.
01:34	You can either install these separately or using a web server distribution like XAMPP, WAMPP or LAMPP.
01:44	I have already installed XAMPP in my machine.
01:49	First of all, we should check if XAMPP is running on our machine.
01:54	In the web browser, type: http colon double slash 127 dot 0 dot 0 dot 1 and press Enter.
02:08	It shows a message Unable to connect.
02:12	This means, XAMPP service is not running.
02:16	So, we have to start the XAMPP service.
02:20	Let’s open the terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T keys together.
02:26	Start XAMPP by typing sudo space slash opt slash lampp slash lampp space start.
02:38	Enter the administrative password when prompted and press Enter.
02:44	If you get a message that says- Starting XAMPP for Linux …. XAMPP: Starting Apache...ok. XAMPP: Starting MySQL...ok. XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...ok.
02:59	It means that XAMPP is installed in your system and you have started the service.
03:05	Please note XAMPP 5.6.30 uses MariaDB instead of MySQL.
03:13	The commands and tools are the same for both.
03:17	Let us go back to the browser and refresh the page.
03:21	We can now see the XAMPP screen.
03:25	You may get a message saying Command not found in the terminal.
03:30	This means XAMPP is not installed in your machine.
03:34	If so, refer to the XAMPP Installation tutorial in the PHP and MySQL series on this website.
03:42	Follow the instructions specified in the above tutorial and install the latest version of XAMPP.
03:49	Let’s switch back to the terminal.
03:52	Now follow the steps shown above to start XAMPP service.
03:57	Let us check the version of PHP on our system now.
04:02	On the terminal type: sudo space slash opt slash lampp slash bin slash php space hyphen v and press Enter.
04:17	Enter the administrative password, if prompted, and press Enter.
04:23	My version of PHP is 5.6.30.
04:29	This message indicates that PHP is installed successfully.
04:34	If you get a version lesser than 5.4.4, you should install the latest version of XAMPP.
04:42	Next, let us check the version of MariaDB on our system.
04:48	On the terminal, type: sudo space slash opt slash lampp slash bin slash mysql space hyphen v and press Enter.
05:03	Enter the administrative password, if prompted, and press Enter.
05:08	My version of MariaDB is 10.1.21
05:14	If you get a version lesser than 5.5.30, you should install the latest version of XAMPP.
05:23	Please note. You should have XAMPP running to check the versions of PHP and database.
05:29	Also note that the command prompt has now changed.
05:34	Type backslash q and press Enter to exit MariaDB.
05:40	You may also get other errors as shown here.
05:44	You may get a message that says “An apache daemon is already running”.
05:50	It means the startup script did not start XAMPP-Apache.
05:55	This indicates that there is another Apache instance already running.
06:01	To start XAMPP properly, you will have to first stop this daemon.
06:06	The command to stop Apache is: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 space stop
06:19	You may get a message that says MySQL daemon failed to start.
06:25	This means the startup script did not start MySQL.
06:30	This indicates that there is another database instance already running.
06:36	To start XAMPP properly, first you have to stop this daemon.
06:41	This command will stop MySQL: sudo space /etc/init.d/mysql space stop
06:54	Resolve all the errors and get XAMPP running successfully.
06:59	Then switch to your web browser and refresh the page.
07:03	If prompted for language selection, select English.
07:08	We will now need to add a user and create a database for Moodle.
07:14	We will do this in phpmyadmin which is the graphical user interface for MariaDB.
07:21	It comes along with the XAMPP installation.
07:25	Let us go back to the browser.
07:28	On the XAMPP page, in the menu at the top, click on phpMyadmin.
07:34	Click on User Accounts in the top menu and then click on Add User Account.
07:42	In the new window that opens, enter a username of your choice.
07:48	I will type: moodle hyphen st as my username.
07:53	From the Host drop-down list, select Local.
07:57	Enter a password of your choice in the Password text-box.
08:02	I will type: moodle hyphen st as my password.
08:07	Type the same password in the Re-type textbox.
08:12	Keep the Authentication Plugin option as it is.
08:17	Please do not click on Generate Password prompt for now.
08:22	Under Database for user account, we can see the option-
08:26	Create database with same name and grant all privileges.
08:31	We will check that option and click the Go button at the bottom right of this page.
08:38	We can see a message “You have added a new user” at the top of the window.
08:44	It means a new database with the name moodle-st and with a user moodle-st has been created.
08:54	Make a note of the username, password and database names.
08:59	These will be required later to complete the Moodle installation.
09:04	Please note: Database name and username need not be the same.
09:10	To have different names, create the database first and then create a user for that database.
09:18	Also, as per naming convention, username should not have any spaces in between.
09:25	We now have XAMPP running and our database is ready.
09:29	We are now ready to install Moodle.
09:32	We will continue with the installation of Moodle in the next tutorial.
09:37	With this, we come to the end of this tutorial.
09:41	Let us summarize.
09:43	In this tutorial, we learnt:
09:45	about the prerequisites for installing Moodle,
09:49	how to check for the prerequisites, how to setup the database and how to add a user.
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