How to deploy Moodle platform on podman - The easy way
This is the tool used for online courses within the laboratory and other workplaces. For the deployment we have used podman instead of docker within a Fedora 31 environment.
Our goal is to install the platform and make it accessible to the public at https://mypublicserver/platform
The steps to get the system up and running are as follows:
- Run a pod with postgresql:
podman run --name postgres_moodle -e POSTGRES_USER=moodle -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=yourpass \ -e POSTGRES_DB=moodle -p 8432:5432 -d postgres:11
- Create a folder to store Moodle source code, for instace (if not created):
mkdir /var/www/
2.1. Create a folder to store Moodle data (mandatory if you want to share content out of podman):
mkdir /var/www/moodledata/
2.2. Change permissions of /moodledata folder:
chmod 777 /var/www/moodledata/
- Clone Moodle source code in this folder:
cd /var/www/ git clone https://github.com/moodle/moodle.git
Note: Clone will create a folder: /var/www/moodle/ with the source code inside
- Run a pod with PHP-APACHE-etc.
podman run --name imuds-moodle -e MOODLE_DOCKER_DBTYPE=pgsql -e MOODLE_DOCKER_DBNAME=moodle \
-e MOODLE_DOCKER_DBUSER=moodle -e MOODLE_DOCKER_DBPASS=yourpass -e MOODLE_DOCKER_BROWSER=firefox \
-v /var/www/moodle:/var/www/html:z -v /var/www/html/moodledata:/var/www/moodledata:z \
-p 8431:80 -d moodlehq/moodle-php-apache:7.2
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In this step Moodle is working and ready to install from http://localhost:8431, so install the Moodle platform following the steps.
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Deploy in Apache (on-premise):
Edit configuration file:
vim /var/www/moodle/config.php
Change the following:
$CFG->wwwroot = 'https://mypublicserver/platform';
$CFG->dataroot = '/var/www/moodledata';
Edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:
Inside VirtualHost add the following:
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
...
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass /platform/ "http://localhost:8431/"
ProxyPassReverse /platform/ "http://localhost:8431/"
</VirtualHost>