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Sáb, 24/01/2015 - 20:56

Quick manual install guide for Chamilo 1.9 on Digital Ocean

Imagen eliminada.This guide will take you through the process of installing Chamilo 1.9 (from Github) for testing on a fresh Digital Ocean instance. A previous article on this blog explains how to install it using Juju Charms. To follow this guide, you should be familiar with the notion of SSH keys and installing/configuring server software on Ubuntu.

Step 1: Get a Digital Ocean instance

  • If you don't have one, create an account on Digital Ocean
  • Give a credit card account or make a payment through PayPal (you might not need it for the first few bucks you'll need to follow this guide)
  • Create a (cheap) instance of 512M RAM ($5/month) with Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04 (I recommend choosing the 64bit option)
  • Give an SSH key so that you can connect to your instance with "ssh root@[instance-ip]"

Step 2: Setup local DNS

To make it short, we'll just define the new instance's IP as a local name on our computer only. You can also use the IP directly, but I prefer using a name.
  • edit your /etc/hosts file (on Windows, C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts), like
  • add the instance IP, a blank space, and a name you want to give it. e.g.: 104.236.39.29 cham1.beeznest.com
In my case, I have IP 104.236.39.29 and name cham1.beeznest.com, so I'll just use these in the folllowing steps.

Step 3: Connect and install software stack

  • Connect to your instance (ssh root@104.236.39.29)
  • apt-get update
  • apt-get upgrade
  • apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql mysql-server php5-intl php5-gd php5-json git vim screen
  • give a MySQL root password twice (remember it)

Step 4: Pulling from Github

  • cd /var/www
  • mkdir chamilo
  • cd chamilo
  • git clone https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms.git www (should take about 2 minutes to clone)
  • cd www
  • git checkout --track origin/1.9.x
  • chmod -R 0777 home courses archive main/lang main/css main/inc/conf/ main/upload/users/ main/default_course_document/images/

Step 5: Database

  • mysql -u root -p
  • [give the mysql root password]
  • mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON chamilo.* TO chamilo@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'chamilo';
  • mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
  • mysql> exit;

Step 6: Configure Apache's Virtual Host

  • cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
  • vim default (or use another editor if you like)
  • Under the ServerAdmin line, add: ServerName cham1.beeznest.com
  • [change /var/www by /var/www/chamilo/www everywhere]
  • Add before </VirtualHost>:  php_admin_value date.timezone "Europe/London"
  • exit (esc + :wq + enter)
  • service apache2 reload

Step 7: Browser install of Chamilo

  • Open your browser on http://cham1.beeznest.com and follow the installation process
That's all, folks! Don't forget this is a development-type installation, meaning that some things will not be tuned for production environments. If you need production-ready installations, the BeezNest team is always available for hiring.