Moodle on cloud is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.

Moodle on cloud is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments.

Moodle is built by the Moodle project which is led and coordinated by Moodle HQ, an Australian company of 30 developers which is financially supported by a network of over 60 Moodle Partner service companies worldwide.

Moodle is owned by Moodle(https://moodle.com/) and they own all related trademarks and IP rights for this software.

Cognosys Provides Hardened images of Moodle on the cloud ( AWS marketplace, Azure and Google Cloud Platform).

Deploy Moodle securely on cloud i.e. AWS marketplace, Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Moodle is released under the GNU General Public License.

Secured Moodle on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Moodle on Cloud for AWS

Major Features Of Moodle CMS on cloud

The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists. It’s also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through something, doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way Moodle was developed and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying or teaching an online course. Anyone who uses Moodle is a Moodler.

• Proven and trusted worldwide
• Easy to use
• Free with no licensing fees
• Always up-to-date
• Moodle in your language
• All-in-one learning platform
• Highly flexible and fully customizable
• Scalable to any size
• Robust, secure and private
• Use anytime, anywhere, on any device
• Extensive resources available
• Backed by a strong community

Installation Instructions For CentOS 

Installation Instructions For Windows

Installation Instructions For Centos

Note: How to find PublicDNS in AWS

Step 1)SSH Connection: To connect to the deployed instance, Please follow Instructions to Connect to Centos instance on AWS Cloud

1) Download Putty.

2) Connect to the virtual machine using SSH key Refer this link:

• Hostname: PublicDNS  / IP of machine
• Port : 22

Step 2) Application URL: Access the application via a browser at “http://PublicDNS/”

Step 3) Other Information:

Note: Open http://your_server_ip for test page rendered by Moodle server

1.Default installation path: will be “/var/www/html/”

2.Default ports:

• Linux Machines: SSH Port:-22
• Http: 80
• Https: 443

To troubleshoot any SELinux issues please refer this link.

3. To access Webmin interface for management please follow this link

Installation Instructions for Windows

Note: How to find PublicDNS in AWS

Step 1) RDP  Connection: To connect to the deployed instance, Please follow Instructions to Connect to Windows  instance on AWS Cloud

Connect to the virtual machine using following RDP credentials:

• Hostname: PublicDNS  / IP of machine
• Port : 3389

Username: To connect to the operating system, use RDP and the username is Administrator.
Password: Please Click here to know how to  get password .

Step 2) Database Login Details:

• Mysql Username : root || Mysql Password : Passw@rd123

Step 3) Application URL: Access the application via a browser at http://PublicDNS/moodle. 

1. To login to Moodle Administrative Panel, you need  to open your browser and navigate to http://PublicDNS/moodle/admin

2. You can configure your stack by following below installation instructions click here.

Step 4) Other Information:

1.Default installation path: will be in your web root folder “C:\inetpub\wwwroot\moodle”

2.Default ports:

• Windows Machines:  RDP Port – 3389
• Http: 80
• Https: 443
• Mysql ports: By default these are not open on Public Endpoints. Internally Mysql :3306

Configure custom inbound and outbound rules using this link

AWS Step By Step Screenshots

• Installation Instructions For Ubuntu
• Installation Instructions For Centos
• Installation Instructions For Windows

Installation Instructions For Ubuntu

Note: How to find PublicDNS in Azure

Step 1) SSH Connection: To connect to the deployed instance, Please follow Instructions to Connect to Ubuntu instance on Azure Cloud

1) Download Putty.

2) Connect to the virtual machine using following SSH credentials:

• Hostname: PublicDNS  / IP of machine
• Port: 22

Username: Your chosen username when you created the machine ( For example:  Azureuser)

Password: Your Chosen Password when you created the machine ( How to reset the password if you do not remember)

Step 2) Database LoginDetails:

• MYSQL Username : root || Password : Passw@rd123

Note: For Stack Database DB moodle with user moodle and password Passw@rd123 has already been created.Please use this database for you Stack Configuration.

Data path to use in configuration is /var/www/moodledata

After configuration change ownership with chown -R root /var/www/html/

Step 3) Application URL: Access the application via a browser at http://PublicDNS/

Step 4) Other Information:
1.Default installation path: will be in your web root folder “/var/www/html/”
2.Default ports:

• Linux Machines:  SSH Port – 22
• Http: 80
• Https: 443
• MySQL ports: By default these are not open on Public Endpoints. MySQL :3306

Configure custom inbound and outbound rules using this link

3. To access Webmin interface for management please follow this link

Installation Instructions For Centos

Note: How to find PublicDNS in Azure

Step 1) SSH Connection: To connect to the deployed instance, Please follow Instructions to Connect to Centos instance on Azure Cloud

1) Download Putty.

2) Connect to virtual machine using following SSH credentials :

• Host name: PublicDNS  / IP of machine
• Port : 22

Username: Your chosen username when you created the machine ( For example:  Azureuser)

Password : Your Chosen Password when you created the machine ( How to reset the password if you do not remember)

Step 2 ) Database Login Details::

• MYSQL Username : root || Password : Passw@rd123

Note: For Stack Database: DB moodle with user moodle and password Passw@rd123 has already been created.Please use this database for you Stack Configuration.

Data path to use in configuration is /var/www/moodledata

After configuration change ownership with chown -R root /var/www/html/

Step 3 )Application URL: Access the application via a browser at http://PublicDNS/

Step 4 )Other Information:

1.Default installation path: will be in your web root folder “/var/www/html/”
2.Default ports:

• Linux Machines:  SSH Port – 22
• Http: 80
• Https: 443
• MySQL ports: By default these are not open on Public Endpoints. MySQL :3306

Configure custom inbound and outbound rules using this link

3. To access Webmin interface for management please follow this link

Installation Instructions For Windows

Note: How to find PublicDNS in Azure

Step1 ) RDP Connection: To connect to the deployed instance, Please follow Instructions to Connect to Windows instance on Azure Cloud

Connect to virtual machine using following RDP credentials:

• Hostname: PublicDNS  / IP of machine
• Port : 3389

Username: Your chosen username when you created the machine ( For example:  Azureuser)
Password : Your Chosen Password when you created the machine ( How to reset the password if you do not remember)

Step 2) Database Login Details:

• MYSQL Username: root || Password: Passw@rd123

Note :  For Stack Database DB moodledb248  with user :- moodleuser18  and password :- EFe|LnuNI_|_  has already been created. Please use this database for you Stack Configuration.

Kindly Create New Database if Required.

Step 3) Application URL: Access the application via a browser at “http://PublicDNS/”

Step 4) Other Information

1.Default installation path: will be “C:\inetpub\wwwroot\”

2.Default ports:

• Windows Machines:  RDP Port – 3389
• Http: 80
• Https: 443
• Mysql ports: By default these are not open on Public Endpoints. Internally Mysql :3306

Configure custom inbound and outbound rules using this link

Step by Step Screenshots

• Installation Instructions For Windows
• Installation Instructions For Redhat
• Installation Instructions For CentOS

Installation Instructions for Windows

Step 1) VM Creation:

1. Click the Launch on Compute Engine button to choose the hardware and network settings.

2.You can see at this page, an overview of Cognosys Image as well as estimated cost of running the instance.

3.In the settings page, you can choose the number of CPUs and amount of RAM, the disk size and type etc.

Step 2) RDP Connection: To initialize DB settings connect to the deployed instance, Please follow Instructions to Connect to Windows instance on Google Cloud

Step 3) Database Login Details:

The below screen appears after successful deployment of the image.

For local MySQL root password, please use the temporary password generated automatically during image creation as shown above.

i) Please connect to Remote Desktop as given in step 2 to ensure stack is properly configured and DB is initialized.
ii) You can use MySQL server instance as localhost, username root and password as shown above.

If you have closed the deployment page you can also get the MySQL root password from VM Details  “Custom metadata” Section.

Step 4) Application URL: Access the application via a browser at “http://PublicDNS/moodle”

Please use MySQL root user with the password set during deployment or refer to metadata field value of the instance for the password.

After completing the configuration you can download the config.php files and copy it in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\moodle\

Step 5) Other Information

1.Default installation path: will be “C:\inetpub\wwwroot\moodle”

2.Default ports:

• Windows Machines:  RDP Port – 3389
• Http: 80
• Https: 443
• Mysql ports: By default, these are not open on Public Endpoints. Internally Mysql:3306

Installation Instructions For Redhat

Step 1) VM Creation:

1. Click the Launch on Compute Engine button to choose the hardware and network settings.          

2.You can see at this page, an overview of Cognosys Image as well as some estimated costs of VM.  

3.In the settings page, you can choose the number of CPUs and amount of RAM, the disk size and type etc.

Step 2) SSH Connection: To connect to the deployed instance, Please follow Instructions to Connect to Ubuntu instance on Google Cloud

1) Download Putty.

2) Connect to the virtual machine using SSH key

• Hostname: PublicDNS  / IP of machine
• Port : 22

Step 3) Database Login Details:

The below screen appears after successful deployment of the image.

For local MySQL root password, please use the temporary password generated automatically during image creation as shown above.

i) Please connect to Remote Desktop as given in step 2 to ensure stack is properly configured and DB is initialized.
ii) You can use MySQL server instance as localhost, username root and password as shown above.

If you have closed the deployment page you can also get the MySQL root password from VM Details  “Custom metadata” Section

Step 4) Application URL: Access the application via a browser at http://<yourip>/moodle

A) You will see the page where you can configure your site data with site name, moodle admin name etc.

B) On next page you will see configuration success message.

C) You can login to the moodle admin portal with the moodle username and its generated password from point A shown above.

D) You can access the configured site at http://yourIP/moodle

Step 5) Other Information:

1.Default ports:

• Linux Machines:  SSH Port – 22

2. To access Webmin interface for management please follow this link

Installation Instructions For CentOS

 

Step 1) SSH Connection: To connect to the deployed instance, Please follow Instructions to Connect to CentOS instance on Google Cloud

1) Download Putty.

2) Connect to virtual machine using following SSH credentials:

• Hostname: PublicDNS  / IP of machine
• Port : 22

Secured Moodle on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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