Any documentation for installing moodle on opalstack

ajinkya

Hello folks,

I am trying to install moodle on opalstack but no success.

peter

ajinkya These are the steps that you can take to install Moodle 4.0:

Create a new shell user at https://my.opalstack.com/apps/. (In the rest of this example I'll use "shelluser" as the user name.)
Create a new Apache/PHP-FPM app https://my.opalstack.com/apps/. (I'll use "moodle" as the app name.)
Edit the new Apache/PHP-FPM to set its PHP version to 8.0.
Go to https://my.opalstack.com/domains/ and add the domain and site entries.
Go to https://my.opalstack.com/mariadb/ and create a new MariaDB database and user.
Get your shell user and MariaDB user passwords from https://my.opalstack.com/logs/.

# Make your moodle data directory.
# I'll use "moodledata" but it can be whatever you want.
# This has to be located outside of the apps directory.
mkdir ~/moodledata

# Get the moodle software.
# Change "moodle" at the end to match your own app name.
cd ~/apps
git clone -b MOODLE_400_STABLE git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git moodle

# Configure PHP and run the installer.
cd ~/apps/moodle
echo "max_input_vars = 5000" > .user.ini
export PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR=/etc/opt/remi/php80/php.d:$PWD
php80 $PWD/admin/cli/install.php

The installer will present you with a series of questions, answer as follows:
- Language: en
- Data directory permission: 2711
- Web address: the site URL from step 4 above.
- Data directory: /home/shelluser/moodledata (or whatever you used for the data directory in step 3 above)
- DB driver: mariadb
- DB host: hit enter
- DB name: your DB from step 5
- Table prefix: hit enter
- DB port: hit enter
- Unix socket: hit enter
- DB user: your DB user from step 5
- DB password: your DB password from step 6
- Full site name: whatever you want
- Short name for site: whatever you want
- Admin user info: whatever you want
- Upgrade key: leave empty
- Terms and conditions: y
After accepting the conditions, the installer will populate the DB and configure the installation.
When the installer is complete, you can visit the site you created in step 4 to log in and start using Moodle.

ajinkya

Thank you so much for the steps.

jijifest

Works like charm!

kjodle

This works great until I get to php83 $PWD/admin/cli/install.php (I am running PHP 8.3 with this, as I'm usuing Moodle 4.4.5.) Then I get this error:

Error: database driver problem detected
The site administrator should verify server configurationPHP has not been properly configured with the MySQLi extension for it to communicate with MySQL. Please check your php.ini file or recompile PHP. !!!

Any ideas what is causing this error? I have confirmed that I'm running 8.3 in the panel and via a phpinfo.php page. Googling this has not produced useful results (i.e., results that do not require sudo).

nick

kjodle Since you changed the PHP version, can you confirm that you also ran this just prior to that command?

export PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR=/etc/opt/remi/php83/php.d:$PWD

kjodle

That was it! I had to drop all the tables in the database before I could run the cli install, but it worked. Thank you! (Now just to work out stylesheets not loading. Apparently that is an nginx thing.)