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

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Show Slide 1: Getting ready for Moodle Installation.	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Getting ready for Moodle installation.
Show Slide 2: Learning Objectives:	In this tutorial, we will learn about the prerequisites for installing Moodle. We will also learn to Check for packages on localhost and database setup
Show Slide 3: OS, Web Server and Versions	To record this tutorial, I will be using: Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04 Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30 and Firefox web browser. You can use any web browser of your choice.
Show Slide 4: System Prerequisites for installing XAMPP	To install Moodle 3.3 in your system, you should have a machine that supports: Apache 2.x (or higher version) MariaDB 5.5.30 (or any higher version) and PHP 5.4.4 +(or any higher version) If you have older versions of the above, ideally uninstall these before proceeding ahead.
Previous slide Highlight MariaDB with the cursor.	MariaDB is the fastest growing open source database. It is an alternative for MySQL database.
Show Slide 5: Web Server Distribution	Web server distributions give you Apache, MariaDB and PHP bundled in one. You can either install these separately. Or using a Web server distribution like XAMPP, WAMPP or LAMPP.
	I have already installed XAMPP in my machine.
	First of all, we should check if XAMPP is running on our machine.
Open Firefox In the address bar type, http://127.0.0.1 >> press Enter.	In the web browser, type http colon double slash 127 dot 0 dot 0 dot 1 and press Enter. It shows a message Unable to connect. This means XAMPP service is not running.
Open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T	So, we have to start the XAMPP service. Let’s open the terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T keys together.
	Start XAMPP by typing sudo space slash opt slash lampp slash lampp space start
Enter the administrative password at the prompt.	Enter the administrative password when prompted and press Enter.
Highlight the message Starting XAMPP for Linux …. on the terminal. Highlight Mysql in the starting XAMPP for Linux command	If you get a message that says Starting XAMPP for Linux …. XAMPP: Starting Apache...ok. XAMPP: Starting MySQL...ok. XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...ok. It means that XAMPP is installed in your system and you have started the service. Please note XAMPP 5.6.30 uses MariaDB instead of MySQL. The commands and tools are the same for both.
Go to the browser. Refresh.	Let us go back to the browser and refresh the page. We can now see the XAMPP screen.
Slide 7: XAMPP not installed	You may get a message saying, Command not found. This means XAMPP is not installed in your machine.
Slide 8: XAMPP Installation	If so, refer to the XAMPP Installation tutorial in the PHP and MySQL Series on this website. Follow the instructions specified in the above tutorial and install the latest version of XAMPP.
Switch to the terminal	Let’s switch back to the terminal.
Highlight the command sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start	Now follow the steps shown above, to start XAMPP service.
Check PHP version	Let us check the version of PHP on our system now.
Type sudo /opt/lampp/bin/php -v Press Enter	On the terminal type sudo space slash opt slash lampp slash bin slash php space hyphen v and press Enter.
Enter Administrative Password if prompted >> Press Enter	Enter the administrative password, if prompted and press Enter.
Highlight the version of PHP on the terminal.	My version of PHP is 5.6.30. This message indicates that PHP is installed successfully. If you get a version lesser than 5.4.4, you should install the latest version of XAMPP.
	Next, let us check the version of MariaDB on our system.
Type sudo /opt/lampp/bin/mysql -v Press Enter	On the terminal, type sudo space slash opt slash lampp slash bin slash mysql space hyphen v and press Enter.
Enter Administrative Password if prompted >> Press Enter	Enter the administrative password, if prompted and press Enter.
Highlight the version of MariaDB on the terminal.	My version of MariaDB is 10.1.21 If you get a version lesser than 5.5.30, you should install the latest version of XAMPP.
	Please note. You should have XAMPP running, to check the versions of PHP and database.
Type \q Press Enter	Also note that the command prompt has now changed. Type backslash q and press Enter to exit MariaDB.
	You may also get other errors as shown here.
Slide 8: Error 1:	You may get a message that says “An apache daemon is already running”. It means the startup script did not start XAMPP-Apache. This indicates that there is another Apache instance already running. To start XAMPP properly, you will have to first stop this daemon. The command to stop Apache is sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 space stop
Slide 9: Error2 : MySQL daemon failed to start Highlight mysql in the slide	You may get a message that says MySQL daemon failed to start. This means the startup script did not start MySQL. This indicates that there is another database instance already running. To start XAMPP properly, first you have to stop this daemon. This command will stop MySQL: sudo space /etc/init.d/mysql space stop
Switch to browser http://127.0.0.1	Resolve all the errors and get XAMPP running successfully. Then switch to your web browser and refresh the page.
Select English if prompted.	If prompted for language selection, select English.
Slide 10: Adding a User and Creating database	We will now need to add a user and create a database for Moodle. We will do this in phpmyadmin, which is the graphical user interface for MariaDB. It comes along with the XAMPP installation.
Creating Database: Click on phpmyadmin	Let us go back to the browser. On the XAMPP page, in the menu at the top, click on phpMyadmin.
Click on Users accounts >> click on Add User account	Click on User Accounts in the top menu and then click on Add User Account.
Type moodle-st	In the new window that opens, enter a username of your choice. I will type moodle hyphen st as my username.
Select Local from the dropdown	From the Host drop-down list, select Local.
In Password textbox >> Type moodle-st	Enter a password of your choice in the Password text-box. I will type moodle hyphen st as my password.
Re-type moodle-st	Type the same password in the Re-type textbox. Keep the Authentication Plugin option as it is.
Point to the option	Please do not click on Generate Password prompt for now.
Point to Create a database with the same name and grant all privileges	Under Database for user account, we can see the option- Create database with same name and grant all privileges.
Click on it >> Click on Go button	We will check that option and click the Go button at the bottom right of this page.
Point to the moodle-st database in the side pane	We can see a message “You have added a new user” at the top of the window. It means a new database with the name moodle-st and with a user moodle-st has been created.
	Make a note of the username, password and database names. These will be required later to complete the Moodle installation.
Show Slide 11: Rules and Naming Conventions	Please note: Database name and username need not be the same. To have different names, create the database first and then create a user for that database. Also, as per naming convention, username should not have any spaces in between.
Point to the page	We now have XAMPP running and our database is ready. We are now ready to install Moodle.
	We will continue with the installation of Moodle in the next tutorial. With this, we come to the end of this tutorial.
Show Slide 12: Summary	In this tutorial, we learnt: About the prerequisites for installing Moodle. How to check for the prerequisites and How to setup the database
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