Llama Moodle

You can set up llama_moodle locally here. Llama Moodle is an LMS app to manage and provide the course of mindfulness-based sessions.

Run Locally

Open up Terminal and install the following;

Adding the php7 ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php 
sudo apt-get update

Install Apache/MySQL/PHP

sudo apt install apache2 mysql-client mysql-server php7.4 libapache2-mod-php

Install Additional Software

 sudo apt install graphviz aspell ghostscript clamav php7.4-pspell php7.4-curl php7.4-gd php7.4-intl php7.4-mysql php7.4-xml php7.4-xmlrpc php7.4-ldap php7.4-zip php7.4-soap php7.4-mbstring

Restart Apache so that the modules are loaded correctly

sudo service apache2 restart

We will be using Git to install/update the Moodle Core Application

  sudo apt install git

Download Moodle - Setup your local repository and download Moodle, We will use /var/www/html for this installation.

/var/www/html

Download the Moodle Code and Index

sudo git clone https://github.com/MyLlama/llama_moodle.git

Change directory into the downloaded Moodle folder

cd llama_moodle

Retrieve a list of each branch available

sudo git branch -a

Copy local repository to /var/www/html/

sudo cp -R /var/www/html/

sudo mkdir /var/moodledata

Give Read and Write permissions to the directory

sudo chown -R www-data /var/moodledata

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/moodledata

sudo chmod -R 0755 /var/www/html/llama_moodle

Setup MySQL Server

To install it, update the package index on your server if you’ve not done so recently:

sudo apt update

Then install the mysql-server package:

sudo apt install mysql-server

Ensure that the server is running using the systemctl start command:

sudo systemctl start mysql.service

These commands will install and start MySQL, but will not prompt you to set a password or make any other configuration changes. Because this leaves your installation of MySQL insecure, we will address this next.

Configuring MySQL

First, open up the MySQL prompt:

sudo mysql

Then run the following ALTER USER command to change the root user’s authentication method to one that uses a password. The following example changes the authentication method to mysql_native_password:

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';

After making this change, exit the MySQL prompt:

exit

Following that, you can run the mysql_secure_installation script without issue.

Once the security script completes, you can then reopen MySQL and change the root user’s authentication method back to the default, auth_socket. To authenticate as the root MySQL user using a password, run this command:

mysql -u root -p

Check if the password is working and exit.

Editing config.php for moodle

Database Type :

Choose: mysqli

Database Settings :

Host server: localhost

Database: <database_name>

User: moodledude (the user you created when setting up the database)

Password: passwordformoodledude (the password for the user you created

For hosting our llama_moodle :

$CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://localhost/llama_moodle';

Restart MySQL Server for changes to take affect

sudo service mysql restart

start llama_moodle on this URL IN your browser

'http://localhost/llama_moodle';