FreeBSD Installing
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Using Ports
Ports are FreeBSB software package system, you can use to install, uninstall, update your softwares packages.
If you didn’t install it along the basic system, you can do it now:
portsnap fetch
:portsnap extract
If you already have it installed, just update:
portsnap fetch update
Using Ports, the package system itself will verify dependencies, download (if necessary), compile and install them all.
You can use binary packages avaliables at install media (like CD, USB or FTP) as well.
Quick install
You could install LMS using Ports:
cd /usr/ports/www/lms25/
make install clean
Step by step install
Install Apache
Apache will be your http server.
cd /usr/ports/www/apache22
make install clean
Now, configure Apache to start at boot:
echo 'apache24_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache24 start
Point your web browser to the host name or IP address and you should see the venerable “It Works”.
Install MySQL
MySQL will be your SQL database server.
cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql56-server/
make install clean
Now, configure MySQL to start at boot:
echo 'mysql_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start
For increase security, set a password for the MySQL root user:
/usr/local/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'your-password'
Install PHP
PHP is the scripting language in which LMS is developed
cd /usr/ports/lang/php5
Before we proceed, we need to add a configuration option so that PHP build includes support for the Apache server:
make config
Select “Build Apache module”:
make install clean
Copy the recommended configuration file for production server:
cp /usr/local/etc/php.ini-development /usr/local/etc/php.ini
Create a mod_php configuration file at “/usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/mod_php.conf”:
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>
LMS require somes additional PHP extensions.
cd /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions/
Check (if not checked already) this extensions at menu and install: CTYPE, CURL, DOM, GD, HASH, ICONV, JSON, MBSTRING, MYSQL, MYSQLI, OPENSSL, SOAP, SIMPLEXML, TOKENIZER, XMLRPC, XSL, ZIP, ZLIB:
make config
Then install this extensions:
make install clean
Install GIT
GIT is a tool to download, update and contribe code to LMS.
cd /usr/ports/devel/git
make install clean
Preparing LMS
Read Installing documentation before follow this steps.
Download LMS
Using GIT, you can download, update, upgrade lms to Apache www public diretory
cd /usr/local/www/apache24/data/
git clone -b LMS_25_STABLE git://git.paradisolms.net/lms.git
Set Apache user as owner of all LMS directory and files:
chown -R www:www lms
Create LMSdata
mkdir /usr/local/www/apache24/lmsdata
Give Apache user total privilegies to this directory
chown -R /usr/local/www/apache24/lmsdata
chmod -R 777 /usr/local/www/apache24/lmsdata
Create LMSdb
Access MySQL console
mysql -u root -p
Then execute following SQL statments, replacing “yourpassword” for some password you want:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE lms DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
mysql> GRANT ALL ON lms.* TO lms@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
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Installing LMS
You can choose two methods, using command line interface (CLI) or web installer.
CLI
Execute LMS CLI Installer:
cd /usr/local/www/apache24/data/lms
su www -c '/usr/bin/php-cli admin/cli/install.php'
Follow the instructions and if you need more information:
su www -c '/usr/bin/php-cli admin/cli/install.php --help'
Web Installer
Open your web browser to the host name or IP address plus “/lms”, like exemple.com/lms or 127.0.0.1/lms. Then, follow the instructions.
Post-installation
Configure a cronjob
Use server crontab to automaticly execute LMS Cron each 5 minutes:
crontab -u www -e
*/5 * * * * cd /usr/local/www/apache24/data/lms ; /usr/bin/php-cli admin/cli/cron.php > /dev/null
Check LMS configurations
- Settings > Site administration > Reports > Security overview: Overview details of your environment security
- Settings > Site administration > Courses > Backups > Automated backup setup: Setup LMS to automatic backup your courses
- Settings > Site administration > Server > HTTP: If you need to set up proxy credentials
- Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Message Outputs > Email: Set your smtp server and authentication if required (so your LMS site can send emails). The support contact for your site is also set on this page.
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