Installing Moodle on LEMP / Ubuntu 18.04 / Nginx?

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Is there a more recent hand-holding tutorial somewhere to guide me through the installation on Ubuntu 18.04 running a LEMP stack? I’m admittedly a deployment newbie, so I need my handheld pretty well. I’m finding some older information for Ubuntu 16 and more for Apache, but I’d already set up and configured Nginx before realizing I needed to install a LMS.

KFSys · Answer

Hi @ljwaloski , Let’s say we start from the beginning so it’s more clear, Prepare Ubuntu 18.04 LTS First, you need to update your system sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade && sudo apt autoremove Install Nginx HTTP Server Now that Ubuntu is updated, we need to install Nginx sudo apt install nginx After installing Nginx, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable Nginx service to always startup when your computer boots. sudo systemctl stop nginx.service sudo systemctl start nginx.service sudo systemctl enable nginx.service Install MariaDB Database Server You’ll also need a database server to run Moodle, my recommendation is MariaDB sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client After installing, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable MariaDB service to always start up when the server boots. sudo systemctl stop mariadb.service sudo systemctl start mariadb.service sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service After that, run the commands below to secure MariaDB server. sudo mysql_secure_installation When prompted, answer the questions below by following the guide. Enter current password for root (enter for none): Just press the Enter Set root password? [Y/n]: Y New password: Enter password Re-enter new password: Repeat password Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Y Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Y Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]: Y Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]: Y Next, run the commands below to open MySQL default configuration file. nano /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf Now to add some configuration to your instance default_storage_engine = innodb innodb_file_per_table = 1 innodb_file_format = Barracuda innodb_large_prefix = 1 Once done, restart MariaDB sudo systemctl restart mariadb.service Now we need to create a Database for our Moodle installation. Enter your MariaDB instance like sudo mysql -u root -p Then create a database and configure it for usage CREATE DATABASE yourdbname; CREATE USER 'youruser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here'; Then grant the user full access to the database. GRANT ALL ON yourdbname.* TO 'youruser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION; Finally, save your changes and exit. FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT; Install PHP7.1-FPM and Related PHP Modules Run the commands below to add the below third party repository to upgrade to PHP 7.1 sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php Update Ubuntu again sudo apt update Finally, run the commands below to install PHP 7.1 and related modules… sudo apt install php7.1-fpm php7.1-common php7.1-mbstring php7.1-xmlrpc php7.1-soap php7.1-gd php7.1-xml php7.1-intl php7.1-mysql php7.1-cli php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-ldap php7.1-zip php7.1-curl Configure Nginx You can type the following to create the file needed sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/moodle Put the followng in it server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; root /var/www/html/moodle; index index.php index.html index.htm; server_name yourdomain.com www.yourdomain.com; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; } location /dataroot/ { internal; alias /var/www/html/moodledata/; } location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) { include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; } } PS. Notice you need to update your server_name in the config. Enable the Moodle site After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/moodle /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ Restart Nginx To load all the settings above, restart Nginx by running the commands below. sudo systemctl restart nginx.service Kind regards,Kalin

L Waloski · Answer

So, everything goes fine until I go to secure the installation of MariaDB: sudo mysql_secure_installation and this is what I get back: NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MariaDB SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY! In order to log into MariaDB to secure it, we'll need the current password for the root user. If you've just installed MariaDB, and you haven't set the root password yet, the password will be blank, so you should just press enter here. Enter current password for root (enter for none): ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2 "No such file or directory") I ran into something on StackOverflow that suggested there might be a conflict with apparmor since I had MySQL on this server before, but setting /usr/sbin/mysqld to complain mode didn’t seem to help at all. I’m still stuck at this point and MariaDB will not start. Trying to force the start gives me a timeout error.

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